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    Three things I've noticed about Lava (Tachyon)

    Re: Three things I\'ve noticed about Lava (Tachyon) [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] And, I was thinking about calling Tobe and seeing if he could work something out with Samson to make Velocity in some different colors, like camo or black. A guy has to maintain a little tactitility (new word). [/ QUOTE ]...
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    SRTropewalkers are hard on knees???

    That's pretty much where I am. I just notice the 'sensitivity' seems to occur quicker with ropewalkers than sit-stands. I use my arm/hands more in sit-stands than in walkers and that's another difference.
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    SRTropewalkers are hard on knees???

    I've had the impression for a long time that ropewalkers seem to be harder on knees than sit-stand systems, i.e. frog, RADS, Texas, etc. I think that notion was pretty much confirmed, to me anyway, while I was making the Uncender videos. During and after shooting the Unicender-Mitchel...
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    Right between the eyes.

    Wow! Makes me cringe just reading about it! Something like that can make the rest of the day (and the drive home) pretty miserable. Lesson? You can bee stung - note: get full body bee suit Hope you're better now - smart thinking about the ice!
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    Grigri vs. Grillon

    [ QUOTE ] ...It just was not taking in slack for me like a friction hitch and micro pulley does. I will try again tomorrow, thanks for the advice. [/ QUOTE ] I bet it wasn't. A micro pulley is designed to reduce friction, a Grigri isn't. In your application, you are replacing a pulley with a...
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    Three things I've noticed about Lava (Tachyon)

    Re: Three things I\'ve noticed about Lava (Tachyon) [ QUOTE ] ...New England Rope sucks go back to Samson. Any company that would change there name just to sell rope to a comapny so they can call it their rope is a shall we say ***. How do we get the companies to stop making things in different...
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    Three things I've noticed about Lava (Tachyon)

    Re: Three things I\'ve noticed about Lava (Tachyon) [ QUOTE ] Tachyon is branded as lava for sherrill tree. [/ QUOTE ] The rope is 'banded'/branded Tachyon on each end of the rope. Sherrill sells two specific colors of Tachyon as Lava. Lava doesn't appear anywhere on the rope; only the name...
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    Three things I've noticed about Lava (Tachyon)

    Three things I\'ve noticed about Lava (Tachyon) One, the rope identifiers on each end of the rope says Tachyon. The name 'Lava' is not anywhere on the rope. Two, it seems slicker than every other rope I've used. Three, it seems pretty stretchy to me. I'd been climbing on Velocity with the...
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    A tragic death...RIP

    ...And it reads like he has every intention of bringing his website back on line after he gets settled with his move.
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    Grigri vs. Grillon

    [ QUOTE ] The grillon is screwed shut and has a spring loaded cam. The gri gri, on the other hand, does not have a spring loaded cam... [/ QUOTE ] The Grigri does have a cam spring. The spring forces the cam to the open position.
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    A tragic death...RIP

    Oops - posted before I read.
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    Newly Designed Line Boss!

    [ QUOTE ] ...The cost is all that turns me off about it... [/ QUOTE ] Whew! I just saw the price! That is a bunch of money. I suspect they're gonna have a no return policy on 'opened'/used climbing gear, but ya never know - it's worth the email!
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    Unicender-Mitchell ropewalker - a little more

    Thanks Dave! Hmmm, that small double sheave pulley oughta work fine! Tie it in high and close as you can.
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    Newly Designed Line Boss!

    [ QUOTE ] Hey Ron... [/ QUOTE ] Hmmm, I would like to see one of those! We must be in some kind of gear innovation explosion or something.
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    Unicender-Mitchell ropewalker - a little more

    Yep! That's a good video BTW! If one wanted to go down 5 feet or so and then go back up, etc., it'd probably be faster and less trouble to walk down (Uni-Mitchell) than to uninstall and re-install ascenders.
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    Unicender-Mitchell ropewalker - a little more

    I was a little disappointed with the smoothness, but it was just me not the system. It could be really smooth and fast once a guy acclimates to the system. I sure liked it the way it climbs and descends. Of course one could remove the lower ascender and just rappel on the Uni as an option - it...
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    Unicender-Mitchell ropewalker - a little more

    The Mitchell rope walker is one of the simplest walkers available. Although not quite as simple as the tree frog, it's chest harness does a lot to help control the upper body. It only requires two ascenders and neither is a foot type ascender. The Mitchell walker is the only walker that walks...
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    Bloopers: So ya wanna make and edit videos...

    Thanks Diane, I can laugh at it now; it wasn't so funny at the time. One of the really frustrating parts to me was that bowline; I simply can't explain it??? I just tied a bowline behind my back on the first try just to see if I could. I've since come to the conclusion that the real problem...
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    Bloopers: So ya wanna make and edit videos...

    Just some of the things that happened making the Unicender DdRT sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnezJ4dpio
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    Unicender reviews?

    [ QUOTE ] well if you are slow on a hitch you can fly tenex for months. If you are fast you can burn a hitch up real quick. Does heat have anything to do with wear in the case of metal? The amount of feet traveled/weight of climber ratio is the same fast or slow but the heat may make a...

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