BenR
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Fair one Craig.. When you have that level of experience one pass is always enough and you never miss anything. Ive worked with some incredibly efficient older climbers. However, I still occasionally miss a bit of deadwood or something so it kind of helps to have one pass on the way down and shoot back up the pop the redirect out. Works well for reductions in case any bits don't quite tie in with the overall shape exactly, get them on the way back
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Right I'm going to have to get one..
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Thats why I always take the device off the line (unicender makes it easy) and never leave pegs to get it caught on. Very rare for me to do this for anything other than a quick, close redirect. My lanyard is set up so i can climb off both ends if i want to. But yea its a little risky. I honestly think that there isnt much need for retrieveable redirects when working single line. Just plan your climb well. Log roll hitch as per the video works well, but still requires a decent length of rope. The thing I love about srt is having the exactly right amount of rope in the system needed so I am not constantly redirecting a super long tail.
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Drop through a fork and don't pull your tail through. Get across to your tail at the bottom, strop in, disconnect and marlin spike it in place/remove from the line and then retrieve with the tail. Bit of friction going down and you need a lot of rope below you. I use a shorter tail and just work back towards my redirects usually. Would love to see some really low friction to retrieve redirects that don't use a lot of rope and cant get stuck
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Im in the same situation as you Adam on someone elses husky.. Once it had about 20 tanks it was amazing. Love this saw, better than a stock 200 imo.
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Cougar blue. Although, Ive heard of some issues with reliability of the quality of some hanks... Uni is king for spikes Either that or tie your saw onto the line spike above it with wrench/hh whatever, then pull it back up to you
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Glad to hear you are rocking the Uni too now Jack!! The self tending on spikes is a thing of beauty. Who needs a foot ascender
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Dan Curtis, Ian Flatter and I all climb on the unicender. We have all used the rope wrench too and I think Ian is on the hitch hiker now. Adam Bourne also uses the HH and used to be on the wrench
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Kern is bouncy, can be spliced I fancy trying some american poison ivy
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Cheers for the feedback I'll tell Zak to pass it on to James Aldred, CAL big boss. Seems to be a really safe access method for those inexperienced in SRT with ascenders in remote locations.
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Looking forward to hearing your thoughts Paul as another uni fan, interested to see if there are any wear issues and how good the self tend is! Have you seen/tried the drum for the uni. I really fancy one
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It was me.. and I deleted the photo off my computer after. I think its in SRT Q and A thread. I got the idea from Dmc thanks Dave, it's a winner
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current setup... lets see yours! RW
BenR replied to Sam Smith's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Right tools for the right jobs Nice tether by the way. Tried that little carabiner on the tether but it got snagged on stuff.. -
current setup... lets see yours! RW
BenR replied to Sam Smith's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Way much sitback on the hitch in that first photo. I dont have a picture but I use a super short hitch, sometimes spliced which makes the legs stiffer so a VT with minimal sitback got a 72/3cm spliced AP with a 3/3vt and a 70cm HRC with a 3/2vt. All off one petzl willam biner with a fixed isc or hitchclimber. Little throwline loop on the bottom of the wrench tether to tend/clip into the HC. Or just use the Uni Edit: the new setup looks mega. I destroyed OP with a knut pretty quick though. Burns up at the half hitch in the knut. -
Haha.. Its no trouble beating your fluff mate
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Canopy Access Training on Vimeo Film by my pal Zak Bentley. Smooth editing
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Would be interesting to know!
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Hi Luke. Ideally you dont want to tether yourself to a toothed ascender in case of a shock load situation. Not ideal when its above your climbing system if its enough to rip the cover on a rope. A webbing sling in a figure of 8 over your shoulders with a biner works well, or a small strap over a shoulder to the back of your harness, or a neck elastic. Its also then easier to just take your hand ascender and foot loop off the line and straight into a little chalk bag or something. Then you can do short ascents with the pantin and still have something to drag your wrench up the rope. My two cents climb safe, viva la SRTWP!!
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guess it is a secret then..
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Technically would be class 2 but people do a class 1 on it too.. Welcome to the murky world of splicing
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Niether is cougar blue, but you can get it if you want it
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Shortest biner you can find and shorten your leg loops up short and the risers to the waist belt. Keeps the bridge length but brings the bridge closer to you. You might find it makes you sit a bit more upright. I just run a short bridge, you get used to it.
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Basically class 2 for high mod fibres that are super slippy as far as I can understand. Some of them can be locking brummel splice with exposed eyes too.
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Rigging lines are amazing to splice Love hollow braids too!
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I think technically the correct splice for the non poly core armor prus is a class 2. But saying that I know people that do a "modified class 1" whatever that means.
