Blakes hitch with a micro pulley.

[samarb]

I always use a blakes hitch with micro pulley seems to suit me better.

[Rod]

iv'e tried this a few different ways an it dose work but its a bit of a faff

 

good set up for long free hanging cilmbs when throw bagging tall trees

[sse arb]

have you tried shortening a distell to the same lenth as a vt then put hitch climber in place.to lift it

[burrell_]

I will take a pic tomorrow of it. Its weird because I wouldn't have thought it would self tend but it seems to. It has to be tied using only four wraps otherwise there is too much friction. The best thing to do is to just try it if you have got a split tail kicking about just tie a short blakes hitch and shove a pulley behind it. Id be interested to know what you think

 

did u ever manage to get any pic mate i was intrested to see it as i like usin the blakes hitch

[Paul Barton]

In esscence, any friction hitch will self tend with a pulley behind becuase the pulley is just doing your hands job for you. However a Blakes will not "break" like a v.t so can't run as smoothly up the rope. I've tried.

 

I think I must understand the phrase "self-tend" differently from you then.

 

I understood self-tending to be when the climbing line slips down through your hitch as you climb the tree i.e. you can be simply climbing without any hands on the rope (just using both arms on branches etc) and the rope will glide through the hitch. Then when you stop and sit back it grips.

 

I can see how a blake's and a pulley makes one handed slack-tendering possible, but not self tending.

 

Am I confused?

[High Scale]

Hmm, yes you are confused but that has nothing to do with it.

 

You can self-tend with a Blakes but you need another small prussik hitched onto the attachment end of your rope, ie, spliced eye, then attach that to the micro pulley.

You can then pull up the rope hand over hand.

 

Just a pulley with the Blake hitch is slack tending.

 

Maybe though, I am confused?

Edited April 22, 2009 by High Scale

[Rod]

ha ha i se what you mean the blakes will not self tend but as you pull down on the rope it is pulled up the rope by the pully

 

it will not feed rope through unless you pull down on the tail of the rope:thumbup1:

[coolie]

Hmm, yes you are confused but that has nothing to do with it.

 

You can self-tend with a Blakes but you need another small prussik hitched onto the attachment end of your rope, ie, spliced eye, then attach that to the micro pulley.

You can then pull up the rope hand over hand.

 

Just a pulley with the Blake hitch is slack tending.

 

Maybe though, I am confused?

 

got a pic,never seen a blakes like that before but very interested and I am feeling confused too

[bobby]

works well if you have a foot ascender to kick the slack through.

[Frank]

I think I must understand the phrase "self-tend" differently from you then.

 

I understood self-tending to be when the climbing line slips down through your hitch as you climb the tree i.e. you can be simply climbing without any hands on the rope (just using both arms on branches etc) and the rope will glide through the hitch. Then when you stop and sit back it grips.

 

I can see how a blake's and a pulley makes one handed slack-tendering possible, but not self tending.

 

Am I confused?

 

Sorry, I meant you can slack tend any friction hitch with a pulley but some "break" and slide alot easier. Then again I understood "self tending" to mean you pull your rope, your pulley see's to your knot. Same as if you just go up hand over hand and your groundie pulls the other end, the knot tends to itself???

 

 

 

Any more confused??