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You can also use a caribiner to tighten your strop

 

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On this stem I was anchored to a neighbouring tree for safety and then used two strops , the black strop is a zillon strop choked with a caribiner. You can just make it out at the bottom of the picture.

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Thanks that's what I was after. My friction device is just a prussik so not sure how easy it would be to climb back up on . I think this running bowline as a backup to flip line when spiking is now part of npt c cs38 or 39 ? Cheers

 

Yeah the running bowline attached with a short Prussik is what we were taught in our cs38 the other week as a backup to the flip line.

 

You could use a karabiner instead of the bowline but it isn't as ideal, it is quicker and easier though!

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Thanks that's what I was after. My friction device is just a prussik so not sure how easy it would be to climb back up on . I think this running bowline as a backup to flip line when spiking is now part of npt c cs38 or 39 ? Cheers

 

 

No worries mate. Yeah a prussik will make life a little harder, it's doable but a pain. Like Mark said a fig8 is a good cheep option or if don't feel confident on that then you can always look at pulleys systems or mechanical devices but if I were you I would stick with the prussik until you are confident to use other bits of kit.

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I'm not an SRT man myself but I thought these zigzags were used constantly to descent on a single line. If I'm wrong (which I probably am) could you explain why?

Yes they are used in SRT but along with a rope wrench which puts the necessary bite in the rope to control decent. You could in theory decend without this bite but would have to do so very slowly and carefully, certainly not best practice

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Yes they are used in SRT but along with a rope wrench which puts the necessary bite in the rope to control decent. You could in theory decend without this bite but would have to do so very slowly and carefully, certainly not best practice

 

 

Ahh fair enough, I see. Haven't really had much experience with SRT stuff so don't really know all the ins and outs of the stuff. Thanks for clearing that up for me mate

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