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@Reg, Hey Reg! Sorry if I sound like an ignorant newbe, but what is that piece (or pair?) of hardware that is attached to your biner in between the spliced eyes of your hitch cord? It looks from the photo like two separate pieces of metal, each with two holes in it, with only one hole being utilized in your setup.

My guess as to its purpose is to keep your running climbing rope from rubbing against your spliced eyes, and thereby protecting the hitch cord from abrasion. Am I anywhere close to the truth of it?

Also, does this mean that you choose not to use a pulley to help tend your slack? If you choose not to use a pulley to tend slack, why is that? Some difference in hitch performance, maybe?

Thanks in advance for any answers you choose to give to my questions, and also for your patience with me.

Tim
 
on a more serious note, I find the stein skywalker and dmm hitch climber pulleys, but not my isc eiger, have an influence on my hitch. The former are tall pulleys when in a RW config and spread the legs of my hitch a bit, whereas the eiger doesn't.

For me, just another attribute to consider in getting that perfect hitch :estudioso: <- hitch nerd

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Reg said:
Tim it is just a pulley. Like the hitchclimber or CMI but with 2 holes.

Try that knot. See if it makes a difference. Avoid skinny hitchcords too.
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Thanks a lot, Reg, I appreciate the clarification. Thanks too for the hitch advice. I will certainly give your method of tying a hitch a good try the next chance I get, and also avoid the use of skinny hitch cords. I appreciate you taking the time.

Tim
 
WaitakKauri said:
on a more serious note, I find the stein skywalker and dmm hitch climber pulleys, but not my isc eiger, have an influence on my hitch. The former are tall pulleys when in a RW config and spread the legs of my hitch a bit, whereas the eiger doesn't.

For me, just another attribute to consider in getting that perfect hitch :estudioso: <- hitch nerd

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I take it you prefer the ISC Eiger pulley over the other two that you mentioned, and like the fact that the Eiger does not affect your hitch, correct? Could you describe how it is that you think the other two taller pulleys affected your hitch's performance?

I think you might be adding to the knowledge base about hitches with your post, as this is the first time I've seen anyone make this observation.

Thanks for your post.

Tim
 
Hey Tim,

This wasn't something I first noticed as I was only using the eiger and another micro pulley. I then tried other pulleys.

I like a short'ish hitch that I tie with double fishermans. The height of the skywalker and hitch climber pulleys are such that they touch the lower wrap of my hitches which in turn alters hitch performance - this isn't a bad thing, but it changes how the hitch behaves. Compounding this, these pulleys don't have a place for the stiffie so the stiffie goes to the side which increases the distance from biner to the lowest wrap of my hitch.

Of course, all of this can be compensated for, but for me, I like the tidiness of the eiger 'RW' pulley and the stiffie fitting between the eiger's arms. Once I have my hitch length set for a climbing-system-parts-comboTM I like, I tend not to change it. If I change the eiger for one without spaced arms, then my parts combo has changed and I might have to adjust something to keep the performance the same. That something is usually to change my hitch - least that's how I see & do this.

hope that's of interest, I'm still learning heaps and much of that is from here and in the trees :estudioso::)
 
Two best pulleys I've found for the RW are the ISC and the CT one. They both have room for the stiff tether and the pulley sheave is close to the rope when everything is put together. I actually like the CT one the best, but both are good, and both match the red RW's color almost exactly. I also have found that the Skywalker and Hitchclimber pulleys affect performance a bit, because the sheave is further away from the rope (sheave axle to centerline of carabiner attachment holes distance is greater). Not an issue with DdRT hitchclimber setup, but for a lanyard adjuster and with the RW, having the sheave closer to the rope/attachment hole works better.

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Color matching should be an ANSI standard. It's called the clashing gear trance (CGT). More dangerous than one handling a saw, the CGT diverts our attention away from what we are cutting as we consider how bad a choice we made on gear color compatibility. Thanks to Keven and ISC giving us more color choices, I'm sure CGT deaths will be greatly reduced. (y)
 
Oh, no.. more gear related disease acronyms to remember.... you remember the old PCMCIA cards for the very earliest handheld/notebook computers? They later shortened it to PC card because everyone said that PCMCIA stood for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms" which is the truth.

For you nostalgia fans... here is a 33.6 kilobaud modem PCMCIA card with the cord to plug into the card and the phone jack... I used it with a couple of handheld PC or "palmtop computers" that, yes... I still have! Will try to dig out the Hewlett Packard one tomorrow... it's a classic! Runs DOS 5.1 and has a 80186 processor at about 4.77 MHz if I remember right. I've got wristwatches with more processing power than that thing had.

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Err... sorry about the derail... too much coffee today...
 
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