diy friction saver, is it safe?

[Marc]

I think the cambium saver Normandy is talking about is more of an emergency job, recently I damaged my pulley type saver, and made up a temporary one using a Sirius multi sling and revolver in the soft eye Treeworker

Like has been said you got to be carefully of the gate fouling the stem or biner moving and becoming poorly loaded etc.

 

Nothing beats a proper pulley type saver wether its the teufelburger, art or home made job.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

that elderid roller C/saver is sweeet! bugger more cash to find!

[treequip]

Don’t let put you off if you feel the magpie urge but I looked at one recently and didn’t like it one bit

 

It's well heavy, I think the big end is some kind of recycled hose shoe with a tiny (compared to a micro pulley) roller, it is just perfect for sticking in a branch fork or cracking the flags when it lands.

[James Atkinson]

elderid roller C/saver isn't sweet, its too long and really not much better than a standard one, one of our climbers had one, traded it in for a pulleysaver after about a month, he doest look back, and i run a ART pulley saver, again so much better

[DrewB]

As above..

[AndyT]

Hi,

 

Here is my idea to make a friction or cambium saver out of a nylon climbing sling and Two figure 8 descenders (hence I called it a T8). Tie them on in opposing fashion to leave both a large and a small ring free for the descender.

 

This is the T8 around a demo branch

 

This is the T8 ready to retrieve

 

Cheers,

Andy.

[DrewB]

That's how it all started bro....

[Chopper-Gooders]

whats the best way cant afford a pretty pulley saver, that you can turn a basic cambium saver into a better reduced friction thing! would it be a mailon and a micro pulley???