Hitch Hiker thread.

[Adam Bourne]

This is the stuff I'm using at the mo

[Gerbutt]

What's that dude? Is it good?

[Adam Bourne]

It's stein TAC mate and yes it's very good, I once bought some for the rope wrench setup with 2 stitched eyes and hated it but on the HH setup it's very very good, pretty sporty but grips every time.

[Gerbutt]

Awesome chap, it's interesting hearing about different combinations isn't it! I quite liked the yellow and black stuff, boa I think, seemed to work well!

[Gerbutt]

Had a little climb with the bearing in place and to be honest it didn't seem to be any better. I think one thing is that the HH is designed for rope between 11mm & 13mm and using the steel crab. As I'm on a 13mm and then the bearing effectively made the crab 2 or 3mm thicker then the bearing was in constant contact with the rope and made it a little tight. It may work really well with an 11mm rope but with a 13mm you're better off without. Still good fun having a little play to see if it did work though 😃

[LumberJake]

Hi Gerbutt, I'm looking into SRT atm and the HH seems intriguing!!! How do you find it o the 13mm XTC as that is what i climb on at the minute! I know it's probably mentioned on a different page but what cord do you guys use for the small length of rope with two eyes (self sewn)? Is that to attach a chest strop?

 

Cheers,

Jake H

[Gerbutt]

Hiya Jake

 

It runs soundly on that rope, I really like it. I do imagine though that it'll run a whole lot better on a thinner rope, but I don't know that for sure as 13mm xtc is all I have. The little loop thing is hand stitched out of 6mm rope from go out doors. I did make a taped version out of some rope from B&Q and it was just as good, the only reason I changed it is because I like making things!

 

I'd highly recommend the HH, it's ace 👍

 

Oh and yes the little loop's for the chest sling to clip into to advance.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Gerbutt

[LumberJake]

Hiya Jake

 

It runs soundly on that rope, I really like it. I do imagine though that it'll run a whole lot better on a thinner rope, but I don't know that for sure as 13mm xtc is all I have. The little loop thing is hand stitched out of 6mm rope from go out doors. I did make a taped version out of some rope from B&Q and it was just as good, the only reason I changed it is because I like making things!

 

I'd highly recommend the HH, it's ace 👍

 

Oh and yes the little loop's for the chest sling to clip into to advance.

 

Hmmm the HH is sounding very tempting!!! Did I read correct in a prev post that you use it DdRT as well?? Or do you just change from DdRT to SRTWP?

 

Jake

[Gerbutt]

That's the beauty of it Jake, you don't have to do anything to change from one to the other and it works just as well in both modes. Last week I was climbing some tall(ish) chestnuts. I throwlined in as high as I could, srt'd up quickly, changed to drt to climb to the top and set tip. As I was only getting a few bits of dead wood and raising field side I stayed with drt so I didn't have to remove the HH to retrieve.

 

It would have been good to get the tip straight away and base tie but that will come 😃

[LumberJake]

Oh brilliant so you just clip the Splice or Bowline into your bridge and climb a bit like a hitch climber? TBH the HH seems like the perfect SRT gear to start learning the way of SRTWP!!!