Why no swing cheek petzl..?

[htb]

Yeah, Multiplat climbed for a whilst on it, using both ends. Best thing that happened was groundy cut it in half

[John Shutler]

Why does it need to be midline attachable?

How many people leave there climbing system attached to their ropes permanently? Or is it removed and retied each time?

 

My money would be on most people leaving it attached

 

 

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[treequip]

Can you remember when multiplat came out? It was revolutionary at the time. I remember some hard days climbing with that in the rain. Horrible stuff.

 

The best feature if multiplat was its ability to hold water then have the prussic milk onto your arm, run down your arm then on down as far as your under crackers

[Steve Bullman]

got it in one

[stihlmadasever]

Why does it need to be midline attachable?

How many people leave there climbing system attached to their ropes permanently? Or is it removed and retied each time?

 

My money would be on most people leaving it attached

 

 

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It should be removed for weekly kit inspection,mine is on a 45 meter rope.

[Mesterh]

 

I can remember all that, 3 strand bungee nylon rope and spongy multiplat.

 

Those were the right bad old days, thank god for innovation.

 

I guess if they made the zz midline detachable it would look nothing like a zz and perform nothing like a zz.

 

There are a lot of links that need some work doing to them. not just the pulley.

[Steve Bullman]

It should be removed for weekly kit inspection,mine is on a 45 meter rope.

So remove it after you've descended a big tree thats used up most of your rope. And if not, it takes what...1 minute to slide it along 45m of rope?

[jrose]

How often do you realistically need any climbihg device to be midline attachable? You put it on while on the ground, climb the tree, come down and either leave it on or take it off?

 

Just asking really, I don't think I've ever felt the need to remove my zigzag/spiderjack/hitch climber completely from the rope during mid climb?

[tree-fancier123]

It would be good to have midline attachable when you can isolate a big limb high in the canopy of a big tree, then go up on double handed ascenders and two foot ascenders, or foot lock if that is even possible in chainsaw trousers, then once at the anchor, lanyard in and fit the zigzag.

[Mark Bolam]

Or just ascend SRT with a wrench then switch to ddrt at the anchor?

As you're prepared to bend the rules anyway with the ascenders this shouldn't be an issue.