V rig help!!!

[old snake]

Hey there boys and girls,i was just wonderin if someone on here could explain the v-rig or even show some pictures of its set up?

Ive been usin a hitchclimber for quite a while now and this is something ive wanted to try. Is it a big help and is there any disadvantages to look out for?

 

Cheers all

[Marc]

http://www.treemagineers.com/downloads/hitch_climbers_guide.pdf

 

This pdf from the treemagineers website covers pretty much everything you can do with a hitchclimber including the v rig.

[Red.Squirrel]

Sorry to drag this thread up again but I've read through the guide and can't quite get my head around it. I don't own a hitchclimber but am very interested, especially, in the V-Rig system.

 

If anyone could post a better picture than what comes in the guide it would be extremely helpful.

[DrewB]

hope these help mate.

2 rope guides really does make this setup work heaps better and remember that if one fails youve got a big fall (probably).

[Red.Squirrel]

Thanks a bunch Drew, exactly what I was looking for. See what you mean about the big fall though, definitely something to keep in mind.

 

Still in two minds about the hitchclimber, still seems a bit of a beefed up pulley really but with more fuss if you don't use spliced eyes.

[dannyT]

Get on the hitchclimber red squirrel you wont regret it!

 

Drew that sett up looks mind bending! Just when you think your getting to grips with this arb lark you see somthing like that! What sort of work scenarios would you use that sett up to give you an advantage, or is it for competition climbing??

[Steve Bullman]

you dont need a hitch climber for the v rig, i used to do it regularly pre-hitch climbers

[Stephen Blair]

i love the look of that, i regurarely use 2 lines when climbing big stuff, but that has so many more advantages, and i have too re-rigg a 500yard long golf net thats 20 feet high through trees, and that little set up will be the dogs, save ripping my wee hips apart again

[Tully]

With the v-rig setup can you move freely from one cambium saver to the next of do you always sit in the middle of the two. Also does it take longer to move everywhere as you have 4 lengths of rope to pull instead of 2 ?

I had a hitch climber but i found it held my friction cord too close to my static line.......I always got rope burn on my hands.

Did anyone else find this or know of a way to avoid it?

[Red.Squirrel]

you dont need a hitch climber for the v rig, i used to do it regularly pre-hitch climbers

 

Would that involve simply placing the pulley where the hitch climber is and everything is clipped into that one krab? Maybe adding a separate pulley on a small krab to help tend line into the hitch too?

 

 

One more general question whilst I'm posting, is it possible to use the hitchclimber with a bowline on the main line and dbl fishermans on the firction cord instead of spliced eyes? Seems to me like it would be too much going on that could interfere with the hitch.