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Does the splice on your rope fit through your rope guide?
Scottish replied to samthescam's topic in Climbers talk
Is it definitely the pinto rig? When I made my pulley saver I used the climbing pinto, which is slightly smaller I guess, and won't let a 22mm retrieval ball pass through. Five minutes with a rasp file, jobs a good urn. -
Does the splice on your rope fit through your rope guide?
Scottish replied to samthescam's topic in Climbers talk
You could always install it the wrong way around and melt a hole in the end of your rope to put your retrieval ball through? Or something along those lines... However to answer your question, yes, the eye on my fancy ass skinny rope does fit through the pulley. Hope that helps. -
Find a good start point, then just go around bit by bit. Usually start at the bottom and do the top last. Very rarely do reductions though so they look pretty naff either way.
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Set yourself up a drop test? Drop 80kg weights from 1m above where the splice is anchored to, so they are effectively falling 2m before being caught. If it doesn't break you know it was strong. Don't use ones you've tested, I would say. I tested my first splices with a game of tug of war with a 3.5t truck and the work van. In the end the van took a running start and the rope snapped between the splices (had one on each end).
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Oh for sure. Like Veg said, low and slow. I think the booklet also recommends learning to use it over soft ground? Always remember, falling from a tree is strictly forbidden.
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Just go out and get used to it. Only use the black lever on it's own for walking out on branches and the likes, for descending use black lever + wooden brake. If you're kit isn't making a cranking sound that's probably a good thing.
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Tree motion.
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I know quite a few people who use these, they seem to like them, for good weather anyway. They did all seem to be fairly ragged, peely rubber here and there, but they must be alright. I'll stick with my kaylands, for winter atleast.
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Why not just whap a line on the alpine butterfly with a krab and lower them down? That's how I do it anyhow.
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Textile products have 5 years life before they should be retired. Wether you adhere to thi...
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Positioner on a wire flip line is nice, but i don't rate it much higher than a micro grab etc. I use one with a 4m poison ivy strop and it's as smooth as you like. Excellent bit of kit.
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No problems, only last week I took my srt kit, pulley saver, spiderjack and all my other metal gubbins on as hand luggage, small heavy things in the one they don't check. No problem. Have previously carried a rope bag full of rope on as hand luggage.
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Yup, rope under tension does not approve of sharp things. Mate showed me a picture the other day of where he tapped his access line with his silky, there were two or three strands left. Silly boy. Lucky boy.
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So I guess with this m rig setup you either dont use a cambium saver, or have to climb back up to take your cambium saver out? Seems a bit of a pain in the arse no?
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I didn't have fun with Velocity, was too thin and too hard i thought. Wouldn't hold properly, and went through the SJ like sh*t off a shovel. Maybe just takes getting used to, but after an hour or so of not enjoying it I went back to my Tachyon.
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Rope wise it seems a bit of a personnal thing, I found xp was a reet nightmare, too big and too hard, it was always slipping and I couldn't get a smooth descent on it. It seems to bite better on the softer ropes. Tachyon is my favourite so far, though will probably give it a whirl on poison ivy next week. Thinner ropes are nastier on the hands but you get used to it, gloves help too. As for chogging down SJ is ace, holds you right into the stem where a hitch climber or that would leave you some slack. As for the velcro, I got a sling in there, cut the ring finger off an old climbing glove, made a tiny hole in it for the screw then squeezed the sling through it. Perfect.
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The original velcro and the spare are both pretty useless. Still looking for a perfect solution. The dog collar doesn't ever fall off the screw?
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Hi flex's die. Pretty rapidly. Stretch airs don't. By cheap you buy twice.
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Thought about this once, figured it wouldn't work. As a kid I wasn't ever allowed to take a bicycle on a bus, so doubted a chainsaw would pass without question. PLan B: Bicycle. Unfortunately my tyre exploded. Falling off a bicycle while wearing a rucksack with a chainsaw in it is not good fun. I've since bought a van.
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I almost bought a pair of those mammuts aswell, but they just seem too low. Scarpa do very good boots, as do Meindl.
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Look alot less like chainsaw trousers and alot more like the Pfanner dream of power ranger styled tree climbers. Colours less black would be cool for sunny days, but I'm sure they'll appear soon enough. *Slightly* nicer price tag.
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I have an ascender I bought off ebay, but it scares me every time I use it... really need to replace that. As a customer I don't really see any advantage to using ebay over a reliable arb supplier. I bulk buy, which is easier when everything is coming from the same place/website, rather than having to search through for items from the same seller. Personally I've found paypal to be nothing but a faf, and ebay would just seem like a middle man. So I suppose the real question is, why would I go on ebay rather than just ring up/go to a shop? Unless there's a significant discount...
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90m tall rainforest canopy . . .what gear would you use?
Scottish replied to sjarthur's topic in Climbers talk
Without turning this into another rope wrench thread, fair enough. I'm not 100% sold either, though I like what it does, and it seems useful. It'll be a while before I change my SRT kit to put a rope wrench (or anything else) in it however. If it aint broke, don't fix it. -
90m tall rainforest canopy . . .what gear would you use?
Scottish replied to sjarthur's topic in Climbers talk
I think once you get the hang of rope walking the classic frog style of ascending is a waste of time. Personally I will use a simple ascender + footloop, croll and a pantin and rope walk everything, and I quite enjoy it. It's just a super simple system, which works. Winner. I wouldn't think a rope wrench would have much of a place in an SRT system, it adds friction into the system, which would seem a bit rash. -
Sounds like a steal. Quite literally. Who buys a £160 pulley, throws away the packaging and then puts it on ebay? Madness!
