V rig help!!!

[Rupe]

Yes too many knots. The spliced eye on the rope is most important, a knot here can interfere with the friction hitch causing it to fail. Dbl fishermans on the hitch cord are ok.

[Rupe]

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?

 

Yes you can move sideways without adjustign the friction hitch. Of course the closer you get towards one side the more pull there is trying to get you back to the middle, but its amazing how well you can move sideways.

 

Yes, to go up you have four times as much rope to pull through.

 

Usign the middle hole on the HC tips it forward a bit, this helps to make a gap between the two ropes.

[Steve Bullman]

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.

 

v.t and pulley on one krab, eye splice on a seperate krab......then assuming these are both clipped directly onto a floating dee, run the v-rig part on a seperate krab in the iddle of these 2. not as neat as having the whole lot on a hitch climber but it works the same