Idea

[WorcsWuss]

Hi Tom10

 

I sometimes work a stem like this if I'm knocking off big chogs and descending down a fair distance.

 

Instead of clipping your top biner onto a small prussic tie a running bowline around the stem leaving your biner in the eye splice and clipping the tail of your rope into it.

 

You can descend down as normal on the friction hitch and pull down on the tail to retrieve back to yourself.

 

makes sense to me but here's a pic aswell.

 

That's brilliant, I'll use that one, far better than choking a CS round a stem...

 

Adam, I forgive you....

[onelab]

 

Great post onlab

 

That's brilliant, I'll use that one, far better than choking a CS round a stem...

 

Adam, I forgive you....

 

Always happy to help

[Dan Curtis]

I use my grillon in a similar way to the ce lanyard single length system. A little add in prussik with a bridge ring to clip into, to keep your krab from rubbing/ cross loading on the branch. You can do the same with a spike set away from the branch too