Flip line advice

[GARY]

Hey everyone! Been thicking about getting a wire flip line, it's bin a good few years since I've used one. I don't like using the rope grab so going to stick with a hitch. So my question is could you add a pulley like you would with a rope lanyard or is the wire to stiff for a pulley to work efficiently??

 

Gary.

[detritus21]

Pulley works fine. I've a wire core with a 6 wrap prussic and pulley. On 4 wraps it seemed to slip on 6 works fine. Pulley works a treat.

[SEAN TYNAN]

have a vt and pulley on my wire strop works really well

[GARY]

Nice one guys looks like arb show buying is a go!!!!

[Joe Newton]

I use a distel and micro pulley on mine. Works great when it's free of sap. (I stick an inner tube over the flipline for real sticky pine dismantles).

 

Make certain you put a soft link in the system somewhere. Even if you cut the hitch in an emergency the wire eye of the flipline will still stop it going through the pulley.

 

 

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[Logjam]

Yes hitch will work but need to be careful not to defeat the point of having a wire flipline. I know of climbers that have had bad accidents after cutting through the hitch (no pulley). Rope grab with shortest possible soft link is a safer option. If using a hitch keep it short, depending how its tied VT can be too long.