Beginners climbing guide, hints, tips and general climbing techniques

[Andyhope1977]

You can use a haas and pantin combo drt ,it would be my choice if I had to make a long ascent drt with nothing to body thrust off.

Yeah I use a pantin with my zigzag. Its a realm help when your away from the maib stem. I picked up a petzl croll for next to bugger all on eBay. Bit of line and some bodgibg and a bit of elastic and have got a homemade hass. It works pretty well. Don't come out the bag often as not in trees that long on utility cutting. Cut chuck and next span.

 

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[JacobLP]

Hi, didn't really know where to post this but didn't want to make a topic in a random thread.

 

Anyway, just curious on what lengh prusik loop I should get for someone with short arms, a long prussix I find hard to even grab and pull up so I'm open to suggestions. Also what mm should I get for a 12mm rope, cheers.

 

 

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[Arrozdoce]

By prussik loop you mean for the friction hitch in your main line? It depends on lot of factors like rope diameter, friction cord diameter, hitches you use (simetric/french prussic?), if you use tending pulley or not...

Usualy for 12-13mm rope is sugested 10mm cord but I found 9mm or even 8mm can work same or better depending on how you setup the friction hitch.

My sugestion is to get a long piece of 10 9 or 8mm, and make some fishermans and try diferent sizes. Marlow boa is a good and cheap cord to play arround.

 

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[Arrozdoce]

I forgot, if you have trouble pushing the hitch you should try a auto tending method with a simple pulley or even a small carabiner. Then you can also use a o-rig system whitch is great for the problem you said.

 

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[JacobLP]

Yea the friction hitch on my main line, currently have a 12mm rope and curious of the diameter I need, I usually just use a 3 wrap prusik.

[JacobLP]

Does every micro pulley fit every size of climbing line (11mm - 13mm)

[Steve Bullman]

pretty much yes, it will say on the spec though what rope size its meant for

[Arrozdoce]

Like steve said.

Consider a hitch climber from dmm or a stein skywalker. If you will climb for couple of time it is really worth and you can try a lot of diferent things in the future as you get more skill and knowledge.

For the friction hitch I would suggest to try a swabish as a evolution from the prussic. The swabish is very safe and will release easier than the prussik, therefore will be smother to tend. Later you can try a distel, nice release, simetrical hitch and still prety safe/reliable.

 

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Edited January 15, 2017 by Arrozdoce

[JacobLP]

Thanks for the help guys, I decided to go with a prusik and a pulley just not sure where I get some thin light accessory cord. Pretty much want the accessory cord that is in the video below.

 

[Arrozdoce]

Thanks for the help guys, I decided to go with a prusik and a pulley just not sure where I get some thin light accessory cord. Pretty much want the accessory cord that is in the video below.

 

 

Shoe laces?! or some small diameter cord from hardware store. Does not need to be PPE rated. The only force it have to handle is to "break" the frition hitch and push it up.

For that kind of system you can even use a mailon or a small binner in place of the pulley if you dont have a pulley:

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