Hitch Hiker thread.

[Gerbutt]

I think you'd find a big difference using an 11mm/11.5mm rope, but try the volcano and see if it works on your 13mm first - it really is great stuff 👍

[chrisj]

I'll give that a try Gerbutt. Once I have it sorted I can see it staying on as you say Alinicoll.

[Alinicoll]

Where do you get volcano from? I only seem to be able to find it pre-spliced?

[BenR]

Where do you get volcano from? I only seem to be able to find it pre-spliced?

Treekit:thumbup1:

[Alinicoll]

Cheers.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

As the other guys have said, get some Volcano for the hitch and Yale Poison HiVee works very well.

[chrisj]

Thanks for the tip Old Mill Tree Care. From what has been said so far it looks like I'll be getting a new rope soon.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Thanks for the tip Old Mill Tree Care. From what has been said so far it looks like I'll be getting a new rope soon.

 

Good. Honestly, it's like night and day to use a thinner more suitable rope. An 11.7mm flows through the device more easily and whilst a 13mm rope is nice and thick to grip onto for DRT climbing, you're not gripping the rope for SRT work so the thickness is irrelevant.

 

I've got a 37m Poison HiVee for Conifer work and some small trees although 25m long would be adequate.

I've also got a 60m Cougar Blue that gets used 85% of the time although I wish i'd got a 65 or 70 meter length instead because I base anchor most of the time. A spliced eye is unnecessary for me because often after I've completed one side of the tree, I turn my Hitch Hiker around on the rope and get the groundie to swap the rope tails on the base anchor.

[warren]

SRT is new for me .. so after reading 200 pages of rope wrench and 80 pages of hitchhiker i took the plunge and ordered a hh2. What clinched it was this part in the following video at 3:34

 

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where he uses a hand ascender to create a 3:1 mech advantage to pull in from limb walks ...

 

now my question is ... (cos im thinking of getting a HAAS too) ..

 

The hand ascender is a rope grap and so is the HAAS ... so could you use the HAAS instead of the hand ascender to hang a krab on to pull you back in as per the video??? Would it go onto the foot loop ... would the bungie / footloop get in the way?

 

it would save carrying a hand ascender up.

 

Cheers.

[MattyF]

I don't see why not ... For me I would choose the haas over hand ascenders all the time any way as I find the haas barely gives you any fatigue in comparison.