Help Please

[TreeSwingerSam]

Can anyone help me, I am fairly new to this business. while I was at college an instructor showed up a set up that pulled the prussik up the rope while you are climbing. He used a piece of chainsaw pull cord and a small pulley. Can anyone tell me how this is set up. It is driving me nuts :-)

[Rich2484]

Haha I'm using it at the mo. Hard to describe. I got no pics. Looped end of rope through harness and up to a carabiner, small prussik through carabiner and around working end of rope, pulley under prussik and pulley attached to the looped end of rope, as you pull up the pulley is pulled up and advances the prussik.

 

Like I said hard to explain.

[treequip]

There is a good picture in this thread

 

I googled prussik tender for you

 

Edited August 5, 2012 by Steve Bullman
No links to that site please

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Better still, buy a Lockjack.

 

Better still, buy a Rope Wrench and HC pulley!!

[TreeSwingerSam]

Thanks for all the responses people, sorted. Gave it a bash today and it isn't bad. Live and learn everyday.

[DrewB]

O rig

[scottyd]

Jack Kenyon of Merristwood designed a simple thingy to do this . I dont know if it was ever commercially available though .

[kev7937]

Jack Kenyon of Merristwood designed a simple thingy to do this . I dont know if it was ever commercially available though .

 

I think he called it the Kenyon lift but never got the patent.

 

HB's used to sell one and just called it the prussik lift I think.

 

 

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[arbmansam]

One word spiderjack :-)

[Joe Loggs]

O rig

 

Like drew said it sounds like the o rig