Ewan Murray

My current set up is 5m of 10mm spectra speed running through a cinch with black diamond magnetron karabiners and an ocean vectran thimble loop, love it works really well for me.

It can still be in reach and when you are lowrring you pull the prussic down with one hand and tend the 8 with the other, if someone lets goes all that happens is that the prussic catches. I will try and get a photo of it at some point.

Daisy chaining krabs isnt good and screw gates have the potential to rub on the stem which could open then like your thinking thiugh would be alot tidier with a footlocking prussic above it the the 8 below

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So the new petzl has a rope bridge? And different leg loops, thought you weren't supposed to take photos haha

Had my first climb on a zigzag today. I was pretty impressed with the intuitive nature of it coming from a hitchclimber setup. All was going swimmingly till I got absolutely flogged by bees 30 odd metres up a large euc. I hauled ass out of there using my petzl rig on my access line and now the zigzag is sitting up the tree overnight in a swarm of pissed off bees.

Crap mate that sounds bad, any hit you, used my zigzag twice really like mine pretty intuitive as you said.

How are you finding it now you've had it a little while?

Like it for pruning palms but just find it too cumbersome,heavy and I don't like how I can't change bits out on it e.g. Karabiners etc plus I find it no were near as smooth as my Rw set up.

Agreed. 10oz is not heavy enough.

 

 

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Haha I just bought a 6oz bag at the weekend, I use a ten as my heavy bag different strokes for different folks I guess.

I'm the same Mate, a 10oz is great for accuracy on 40/50 some 60ft open spread crowns but anything tight of higher I much prefer 14oz

Haha I find 10 too heavy, I prefer an 8 oz just have to let it run on rough bark.

Hi Ewan we did try this and it didn't work it just tore the end out.

We have tried coming up with all sorts of ideas for rope attachment but in the end it came down to being to complicated and would only add to the cost

Cheers for the reply going to try one out I reckon

Have a Brother who is 3 years older, dont speak much but we are still good friends.

Could you not drill hole in the end big enough to fit a micro krab through it to make it easy to attach?

holy crap that looked bad!

They are just Buckingham harnesses rebranded they are the ergo lite range i think

That sounds good to me. Quick, easy and very adjustable.

It sounds the same as the Treemagineers Sirius ringLOOP. Am I right?

 

 

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Yeah thats what I use will grab a photo today.

I use a ring spliced onto a loop then push a bight through the ring a clip a krab into the bight to jam it in. Works well and releases with one hand.

Haha he don't give up!

Saw Tuttle posted it on Treebuzz aswell haha

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Cool did you make that yourself? Don't like the rings though but to each his own.

Someone else who was banned used to go on about those rings alot. Haha

Also it's 1:1 so only tending half the rope.

You can clip your system back into your cheat harness or neck elastic and as you walk you just have to pull underneath your hitch or if you use a uni it will tend up the rope with no hands having to tend slack a bit like a spiderjack.

Wire cores give a false sense of security, I don't like them and if you hit it I'm pretty sure the damage done would just make the rest of it snap.

I have seen guys attaching it at the bottom of the Zigzag like in Treetools photo, the top hole is free.

I think it might be to do with the angle its sitting rather than weight that it see's, it wil be oriented differently when there is a splice connected to the top of the device the "gold tab" maybe attaching the thether there may help the issue? I know they say it can't be used for SRT but they show it being used with a munter under it as an emergency bail out option so placing a wrench above it gives the same effect of adding friction. The negative side of me thinks they say it cant be used srt as they have the

Rig which they push as there SRWP tool and they wouldn't want to endorse a competitors product.

Ocean polyester has a seriously low melting point for a heat resistant friction cord, If you want one that will retrieve easily use an old positioner with a cocoon pulley so it expands as it retrieves works really well.

Its similar to the American Poison Ivy i really like mine it is softer in the hand than cougar blue but isnt as static, the cover of Arrowfrog feels smoother in my opinion, both work well srt and ddrt i would go with cougar blue for SRt and its pretty even between the two for Ddrt.