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  1. caleb

    F-8/srt questions

    I used to (still sometimes do) run exactly whay you mention, except for the footloop on the upper ascender. With the pantin and ascender for progress, essentially a weird body thrusting kind of motion, and the hitch functioning as a floating back up. FWIW though, I did slip a little, once...
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    Homemade slackline?

    I just use a bunch of 1 inch webbing for the line. The tensioning system varies on the length of the line I want to install. If it's short, I just use the line itself. A hint here, clove hitch 2 biners for the inside (toward the middle)of your tensioning system. The hitch will cinch down...
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    detroit wrap

    [ QUOTE ] I just ordered a petzl simple. I will let you all know how it compares. I hope it doesnt work! I am very close to releasing a metal midline attacheable! Just trying to figure out the last details. [/ QUOTE ] Dang. I might have saved you the money. I played around a little...
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    detroit wrap

    I more or less meant just the hitch part of the assembly. I use "french wrap" as a generic term for that particular kind of hitch wherever it is and whatever the function or the attachment. Your overall set up I've not seen before though, that's new. What kind of pulley is that? Is the rod...
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    detroit wrap

    Heard it called a french wrap as well. I just use straight wraps as well. I find it performs much like a VT, only it goes on an off faster.
  6. caleb

    Adjustable tether used with ascenders

    Just realized Tom beat me to that second part!
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    Adjustable tether used with ascenders

    I don't really adjust the length of the lanyard on my ascenders much. Most of the time I just use a girthed shoulder runner, which is close enough for me. However, lately I've been using a purcell prussik which I find to be more streamlined than other adjustable lanyards that incorporate a...
  8. caleb

    top-roping only kids saddle??

    Hey tank, The kids saddle should be just fine as far as loads are concerned, even for a lead fall, not that he should be taking any. I think the main thing is that kids often have a higher center of gravity and a much lower experience level as far as "fall awareness" the second part being...
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    SRT Reaching the tips.

    How many folks doing SRT carry a small throwline while doing difficult crown cleans? It seems to me that it might be worth carrying in this scenario. At times much easier than wiggling your way through high crotches, or in trees with a lot of interior sprouts that might make monkey fisting...
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    adjustable bridge

    [ QUOTE ] Ditto, that's my experience. Try doing a switchover from SRT ascent to descent on a Microcender or similar device away from the tree (no lanyard tie-in) and you'll wish the pin would come out much easier. First you have to unload the Microcender which means one hand holds you up on...
  11. caleb

    GRIGRI MOD - KEEPER CORD

    I'll chime in as well and say that your mod is just fine. I've used the other modification mentioned by Tom for solo rock climbing. I can attest to the fact that you can take more material off the gri-gri than you have (in the appropriate areas of course) and it will still catch a whipper!
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    Aerial rescue techniques?

    [ QUOTE ] Heres the set-up we are using, i believe many of you are probably already with familiar with it but if not heres a pic. Just curious to see if anyone else has had any inovative ideas about performing a rescue when someone is on this set-up. We realized how hard it was so we're...
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    Shackle

    [ QUOTE ] Check the ANSI Z133.1-2006 standard under 5.7.9. A screw pin shackle on top of the ball, with a ring & ring on the pin and the pin secured with a steel "ANSI Z" rated for life support krab going through the pin hole, capturing the ring & ring, preventing the pin from...
  14. caleb

    Singing Tree Rope Wrench

    Simple, effective and ingenious. Well done.
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    hitch

    Double fishermans for the termination on the hitch cord and for the termination in the rope if you're not using a spliced eye.
  16. caleb

    pics from my job this week.

    Keep that eye protection on, man. Even if you don't think you like it. Recently had a run in with Osha. Our ground work was cited for a lack of eye protection. It was a VERY expensive citation. I'm very fortunate I didn't have to pay it myself. I wouldn't have been able to. Plus your eyes...
  17. caleb

    can someone explain?

    I think it's the bridge itself. 15kn is pretty typical for belay loops in other harnesses. I would also read that the side D's are 15kns apiece. Just my take.
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    yoyo/rads or SRT rope walker?

    [ QUOTE ] Caleb- The slippage wasn't with the cam engaged. It was because I was sitting down onto it with a newer, slick, skinnier line rather than a jolt like a fall, whether rock or tree. I imagine that if I had dropped onto it, it would have locked fine. Sean [/ QUOTE ] Right on...
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    yoyo/rads or SRT rope walker?

    While backup knots and/or stoppers are good when using a Gri-gri (or any single device, really) I routinely use a Gri-Gri with a 10 or 10.2mm climbing rope and have caught some substantial falls with the device in rock climbing scenarios. Though this falls more under "assisted braking" than...
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    Right between the eyes.

    This is why I often jug as opposed to spur up a tree even if sometimes setting a line is harder than walking up. Not only for the comfort level in my feet at the end of the day, but I'm allergic to yellowjackets so the ability to get down fast is always in the back of my mind. I try to take...

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