Rupe
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Ok, will get me a loop, I only have dyneema slings and they bight too hard (dont slide).
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Thats not such a bad idea!!
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Splicing three strand is easy mate!!!!!!!! Ha ha!! Ok, thanks, I'll see if John will do me one first, I'll buy him some cider with ice in it!
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Might take me a while to get my head round it!! I do want to learn, its on the list after karate but before origami! Is Nod doing any more courses? Can you make me one?
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That looks like the way forward! Is that a sirrus loop? What length do you need to get the three wrap prussik? Will the shorter one do it?
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No, it advances the prussik up your rope for you, one handed, or if not fully one handed it still help you to climb like in the video, its the first step at least to moving away from body thrusting with a prussik or blakes, but to get the full effect you will need a better hitch, then low friction at your anchor point, so a ropeguide or similar required there. It goes on and on and gets expensive.
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Would you like to make me one too? XX I have pulleys and slings etc. I just need a long length of something with a big loop in one end and a tiny one the other end. Do you also put rubber hose over the big loop to keep it open or wire inside?
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Its true though, I have some traditional webbing slings about an inch wide, rated at 24Kn that I happily use as re directs or anchor points, but the newer spectra and/or dyneema slings that are 10mm wide but still rated at 24kn dont give me nearly the same amount of confidence. Ultimatly though youhave to look at the ratings, and obviously the condition, and just go with it.
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Yes, that is what i have been doing, and generally getting away with it. My ropeguide will fail a loler inpsection so I need to get a new one. I had a homemade one before but its still up a tree somewhere in gloucestershire! Will get it back one day and the pulley might be usable!! Anyway, I could make a new one, I have a cocoon and a pinto in the post and some bits of tat lying around but I can't splice yet. Was just wondering if the 2010 version was an answer to the problems. If not then its home made bodge it style again!!
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Hmmm, yes maybe homemade is the way to go! John, did you make yours? Or did mr oldsnake make it for you?
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Yes slack is definatly better.
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They do get stuck quite a bit, depends on how you set them and the direction you leave the tree from. So if its facing west and you exit east it might trap it self against the stem, but if you are in the right direction then thye are generally ok. Alos if your rope is in a straight line directly toward it then you should be able to flick it free, but if you have gone under/round branches/stems etc then if it gets stuck you have less chance of retrieving it. So I was wondering if this new one is any better? There are some tricks to help with retrieval but somedays nothing works! Lime trees seem to be the worst. I would try climbing on a pulley first to see how you get on with the lack of friction. It makes climbing on a prussik/blakes a bit harder on the elbows to start with.
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If you can afford new chains instead of sharpening then surely you can afford to get them all sharpened OR chuck em in the bin?
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Has anyone got much experience with these? Any good? Especially removal. I'm gettign more and more frustrated at mine (old style one) getting stuck all the time!
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Just watched again from the start. Nice mid air descent!! Missed that the first time!
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Start with a pulley under your prussik and see how you get on with that to start with.
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Safety clothing shops might have a selection, also some of the jakcets available have zip off sleeves.
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Hes definatly Scottish!
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What sort of cost are you looking at for the finished video? Tell to mind my own if you like... tell me later!
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Re: Chippings He's also got a bolt missign on his saw, the one holding the chainbrake on. Thats enought to make the saw not suitable for use until fixed. Not a great video, and an example of where any profffesional voice over is better than doing it yourself. I always thought Reg could have used a nice ladies voice for his lowerign device videos, any suggestions?
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I still dont get it!! Was the lowerign line going through the karabiner or was the biner attached to the end of the lowering line and clipped to the lowered section? Basially it sounds like you dont know what you were doing. No karabiners, even steels, should be used in shock loading situations unless the loads a very small. If you were using blocks attached without karabiners and a lowerign line tied to your lowered piece you would have been fine. If you were natural crotching then that makes everything worse, too much friction at the crotch places more load on the line between it and the lowered section rather than disipating the load through the entire length of the line. Back to school for you me thinks!
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I like it, but you should have got Martyn Honey to do the voice over, that would have been great!
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Good point! It is quite well recessed (looks like it is anyway) but those conny are pokey!! Time will tell. I'm after 2 ms200 to keep in stock just in case the new one is rubbish, plus I've got lots of spares already!
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And I'm not familiar with that karabiner, is it steel or alloy? Whats the rating on it?
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Sounds like you were abusing it! How was it set up? What was it for etc etc? If you were running a lowering rope through it and snatching the top out in big sections then of course its gonna break!! Explain further please.
