pulley setup

[diervek]

Excuse my noobishness, but I just wanted someone to check over my new pulley set-up before I go scramble around a tree.

 

Just got a couple of eye to eye silver streaks to make up some distel hitches and nabbed a cheap ISC pulley to tend slack on the lanyard while moving my pinto to the main line.

 

I'm a little unsure about it all as the lanyard pulley seems very tight. I know you use a spacer on the pinto to stop it compressing, is this the same for ISC also? (should have got a swing cheek)

 

The main line system with the pinto — is there anything particularly wrong with it? Other than maybe another wrap on the distel.

 

With the eyes either side of both pulleys, they just seems very wide on the biners and I'm worried they could be loaded wrong?

[born2trot]

I personally don't like that set up at all , way too bulky and cumbersome but the main issue I see is the eye end krab fouling the distel hitch . This is a massive no no with friction hitches . The pulley eye to eye is terribly positioned and too thick chord . Probably will work but you could make life so much easier . Hopefully someone will be along soon with the correct set up ☺

[diervek]

Cheers buddy, it's pretty much what I was thinking... Hopefully there's a way to make it work.. Another play tomorrow while it rains

[born2trot]

Cheers buddy, it's pretty much what I was thinking... Hopefully there's a way to make it work.. Another play tomorrow while it rains

 

Oh God ..

[stihlmadasever]

I personally don't like that set up at all , way too bulky and cumbersome but the main issue I see is the eye end krab fouling the distel hitch . This is a massive no no with friction hitches . The pulley eye to eye is terribly positioned and too thick chord . Probably will work but you could make life so much easier . Hopefully someone will be along soon with the correct set up ☺

 

Totally agree with the above,also the biner on the spliced eye side of the rope could cross load,best to use 2 oval biners for the hitch climber set up,u could try a VT hitch instead of a distel as the wraps are higher up because of the braids at the bottom of the hitch are opposite the spliced eye.

Hope that made sense

[stihlmadasever]

Sorry forgot too say,the hitch cord looks a bit bulky,try goin down a couple of mm for your eye to eye

[diervek]

Thanks stihlmadasever,

I do have another oval and I'll stick on a VT and see how it looks.

I guess I could move the split eye krab down to the bridge to remove any chance of founding the hitch too..?

 

I'll order some smaller friction cord next week 👍

[R Mac]

Would a Hitch Climber pulley streamline the set-up? the sides of the Pinto are quite wide/far apart which is pushing the eye 2 eye out on the carabiner. The ICS Micro Pulley would also be narrower than the pinto where the carabiner goes through.

 

I use an O Rig set up with a Hitch Climber and my prussik cord has simple fishermans knots but it's still more streamlined, with eye 2 eye prussik cord your set up should be really streamlined with a hitch climber.

[R Mac]

Thanks stihlmadasever,

I do have another oval and I'll stick on a VT and see how it looks.

I guess I could move the split eye krab down to the bridge to remove any chance of founding the hitch too..?

 

I'll order some smaller friction cord next week 👍

 

Do you mean Spliced eye krab? If so then that's what I would do.

[Joe Newton]

You don't need the spacer for the pinto when it's on a crab.