SRT+alpine butterfly+redirects

[mistahbenn]

Just a quick one, title says it all, how easy is retrieval with a cinched alpine butterfly and say 3 redirects. Is it possible?

[mistahbenn]

Google is my friend, just found this from Derrick. Anyway your thoughts are still welcome

[Dan Curtis]

eee, don't like the look of that! A ring would be much better. I reckon it would depend on line angles and bark smoothness, so prob a case of judgement on each tree.

[Ian Flatters]

i tend to use a dmm ring as it seems to bight better and releases easily. I've retrieved this setup form about 5 natural redirects. Only hard thing is getting the alpine to move but once it starts it comes out easily enough.

 

You still snowed in Benn??

[mistahbenn]

Put up some pics dudes! Ian snow has retreated now, back to work tomorrow, but got a new harness so looking fwd to that.

[Adam Bourne]

Yeah when retrieving rope on rope it's hard to retrieve through more than one redirect as the rope on rope causes a lot of friction, Ian flatters showed me a cool trick with just a aluminium ring, just put your line through the ring and around desired anchor point then tie direct to the ring leave a long tale to what ever length you require or add a second rope or throw line to retrieve, the ring takes a lot of the friction away making retrieval real smooth

 

Hope this helps mate

[Adam Bourne]

Beat me to it......

[mistahbenn]

Another version.

[JamesNI]

Would prefer to see that krab method done with a screwgate. It would surprise you how easy that krab could open rubbing about up there.

[Tommy_B]

What about a revolver?