Top Anchor

[Bewarethemoon]

Excuse me if this sounds dumb but I've been climbing with a Rope Wrench for a little while though and have a question.

 

Where possible I like to use a lower-able base anchor due to the obvious safety advantage but mainly I like being able to decide how much rope trails behind me.

 

On some situations I've been using a butterfly attached to a crab & pinto as a retrievable top anchor, my question is this, in that configuration is there another way to 'set the tail' other than pull enough over the crotch before tying the midline knot? I only ask because I see that causing problems in retrieval.

 

Cheers guys.

 

Daniel.