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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    I don't find it so. I'm always thinking of TNPG, the next poor guy/gal, who might come this way, who'll now find your thoughtful presentation, thank you. My attempt at an observation was that the first redirect only changes the angle on the rope at the tie-in point, with the force/tension...
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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    (Do they even carry them?)
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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    @Burrapeg I guess my rudimentary chest "harness" made out of a sling and carabiner was an attempt to emulate a chest kroll. I've made a note that that's what I really need. @TimBr Your mention of re-distribution of weight reminded me of something in my recent introduction into rigging too...
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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    So I'm about 210#. 6' tall. After a LOT of reading all over the place, I settled on a 10mm beeline for a Michoacan hitch for my existing new 13mm woven rope. I also concluded from reading that a stiff tether was virtually mandatory and sensed that shorter was better. I hadn't realized that...
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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    @Birdyman88 You have my solemn promise to KEEP STUDYING MY HITCH, with the end goal to KNOW it. Thank you.
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    Rope Wrench - Hitch/Rope compendium.

    Thanks, folks. Caught! I'd hoped to move the saddle question to the hitch-tending thread before anybody noticed, but oh no, you're way too smart for that trick. Reading between the lines, I take it a bridge for this saddle is going to look a whole lot like a completely different model--with a...
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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    @Birdyman88 Firstly, thank you! Secondly, let me assure you that I never thought of the Rope Wrench as life support--I've read plenty, plenty, plenty to know that the hitch is the thing. However, what I was trying to say was that I was pulling down on the hitch, the way I saw it in the...
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    Addressing hitch binding with the Rope Wrench on descent

    [There's a question buried below, for the perseverant.] I am now the least-experienced "climber" on this board, unless someone else made their first climb since 6 pm this evening. I just got my leaden 60-something self 6 feet off of mother earth. "Houston calling Spaceman Oertl." on a Rope...
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    Rope Wrench - Hitch/Rope compendium.

    Hitch Cord = 10mm Ocean Poly with spliced eyes, new Hitch Cord Length = 30" Rope= 13mm poly (name forgotten; it's neon orange with red and white flecks) Hitch = 5 wrap Michoacan Pulley = HitchClimber Tether = Rope Logic, short, stiff Carabiner = triple-lock, nothing special (exc. for that...
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