DDRT or SRT?

[kevin bingham]

A couple extra hundred in kit is a myth. I am sure you could srt just fine with the kit you currently own. It's just one rope.

[Swampster]

I think James Bond used his shoe laces? Probably about 60 pence! Originally a couple of prusiks would have been all you'd have but now the options are a little better (pricier too though). That's for SRT access, SRTWP might be a little more involved I agree.

[WorcsWuss]

A couple extra hundred in kit is a myth. I am sure you could srt just fine with the kit you currently own. It's just one rope.

 

Sorry Kev, I meant as in to convert my existing ddrt hitch climber system to a rope wrench system. All I need is an rw and a pantin really, but that's getting on for 150 quid including the vat. I've already got a croll so add in a nice footpro and a bit of bungee cord from somewhere and it's going to be the wrong side of £150 for what I need to get the rope walker set up I fancy.

Soon though!

[kevin bingham]

Play around with the fate revolver, or a kong robot is 22$. Make your own rw. Hard to make one as nice as ISC but you can get by. I hardly ever use a pantin unless its the real big trees. Rope on rope all day. A fate revolver is still miles better than ddrt for me.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Sorry Kev, I meant as in to convert my existing ddrt hitch climber system to a rope wrench system. All I need is an rw and a pantin really, but that's getting on for 150 quid including the vat. I've already got a croll so add in a nice footpro and a bit of bungee cord from somewhere and it's going to be the wrong side of £150 for what I need to get the rope walker set up I fancy.

Soon though!

 

For the effort that it saves you it's money very well spent.

 

Compare it to dragging brush all day or stacking it on a Stein Trolley.

After six months it's worth it's weight in gold!

[hazzygawa]

I would like to try srt but is a wrench vital.

 

I haven't actually worked out what it does yet.

I know there is a long thread on it but...

[Paulfreebury]

I would like to try srt but is a wrench vital.

 

I haven't actually worked out what it does yet.

I know there is a long thread on it but...

 

It's basically ddrt on single rope, the friction is suplied by the wrench rather than over a limb simples!

[WorcsWuss]

I would like to try srt but is a wrench vital.

 

I haven't actually worked out what it does yet.

I know there is a long thread on it but...

 

I asked the same question a couple of pages into the rw thread.

Essentially a normal friction hitch from ddrt running in a single line is subject to twice the friction which could burn it out. Rw splits the friction between itself and the hitch. Kev calls it the limb which goes with you, it's 1:1 climbing with the friction of 2:1. Genius!_

[hazzygawa]

Brilliant. Thanks for that guys.

[hazzygawa]

Could you climb only on a rope wrench? Is this a stupid question?