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    Sticht Hitch

    The rings seem to move around a lot when tending. More moving parts would mean more variables to consider. Between ascent and descent the rings can move up and which can make descents tough, you can grab both rings and pull them down to increase friction at the rings. Would like it to be simpler
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    Sticht Hitch

    Going to make some smaller adjustments, I don’t have a sticth plate so I’m going to try and mess with altering the twists, how i set them, cordage length and where the rings go. But right now, I’ve swapped the rings around and it seems to work ok. I’ll see how t reacts this time. Tending is a...
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    Sticht Hitch

    34mm on top 40mm on bottom. Works ok on my weight, too much friction at rings do smooth tending but coming down is not an issue. Need to find a way to stop binding at the rings
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    Sticht Hitch

    I’m going to try and create a series of small pinch points between two rings and maybe that’ll allow the hitch to be a bit more controllable, maybe a similar concept to the hitch hiker; dogbone and steel carabiner like.
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    Sticht Hitch

    I love hitches, there will always be a place for them. A lot of the time I use a hitch over y mechanicals for how fun they can be to mess around with. I’m currently using a 34mm DMM ring, and a 45mm petzl ring for my testing here in the garage. Trying to make the hitch and the rope touch the...
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    Sticht Hitch

    I love hitches, there will always be a place for them. A lot of the time I use a hitch over y mechanicals for how fun they can be to mess around with. I’m currently using a 34mm DMM ring, and a 45mm petzl ring for my testing here in the garage. Trying to make the hitch and the rope touch the...
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    Sticht Hitch

    So this works on a single line without any additional friction from a wrench or munter? Looks to be correctly tied
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    Sterling rope rod

    Here are some of the bits and bobs I’ve got in my bag for srt with the rope wrench, back to the topic of tethers. This is a 7.5 in tether (single leg). Used with a pirate carabiner and pinto. Need the big top to fit the tied eye to eye cord on. I use a 20in eye and eye mainly but have some other...
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    Sterling rope rod

    @TimBr @Brocky I got some more hitches too! I know of a few people on social media, mainly Jason Ma who made a YouTube video with a lot of wacky hitches, I haven’t tried them out yet. I’d love to know about the stitch hitch, sounds like it would need a lot of cordage to dissipate heat and...
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    Sterling rope rod

    Catalan can often have not enough ‘spring’ like tension at the top because the load is based at the bottom. Using a fix plate pulley like a pinto makes the Catalan work better (for me). The wide plates make strands leaving the hitch go sort of to the side which can start the chain of friction by...
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    Sterling rope rod

    I’ve messed around with the knut and ‘Catalan V’. Catalan V always deforms under load maybe because I’m using with a hitch climber and pinto pulley and not HHx? As for knut the top always binds for me because the top wrap goes directly to the carabiner which pulls down on the top wrap tightening...
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    Sterling rope rod

    @yoyoman has a video on YouTube about hitches to use with the hitch hiker. Knut H and Catalan as well as michoacan are described there. Very slight difference between Catalan and Knute h but they perform quite differently for me
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    Sterling rope rod

    They work any good?
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    Sterling rope rod

    Michoacan (blue cord) from both sides Martin (green cord) from both sides
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    Sterling rope rod

    Here’s the difference: On the first hitch I’ve tied (Martin), which is a slight variation of the Michoacan, as the cord passes over the front leg it takes an extra twist. Afterwards the steps are the same as a michoacan. From the second photo, I’ve connected the hitch to the biner on the...
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    Sterling rope rod

    Set up with 8mm courant cord, the sewn eye makes the hitch a bit longer. Second image tied with a Samson ice tail 5 wrap michoacan they work fine. I never liked the long tethers so it’s nice to hav a nice short system with minimal sit back which is nice when returning from a branch walk
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    Sterling rope rod

    Simarghu make a single leg 7.5 in tether with a built in tending loop. I’ve always see a short hitch, your hitch should never bind if you use the right cord with the right hitch. The tether I used was an isc foot long and it was too long for the hitch I use. If a short hitch bonds up for you...
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    Tips for Climbing a Tulip Poplar

    I use a quickie on a prusik, backed up with an alpine. Works almost as well as the pinto on retrieval because the pin rotated (like a pulley but nowhere near as fast).
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    Tips for Climbing a Tulip Poplar

    All I know is that DMM never tested the pinto in that configuration so the safety and strength of the pinto is officially not known to DMM. I think they don’t want people to use them this way just to save their skin if anything bad were to happen, which is fine by me. However, third party...
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    Lithium powered saws?

    Used them in the rain, not heavy or torrential rain, just a steady drizzle. Works fine but wouldn’t make a habit of it. I’m not familiar with the inner workings of the motors to be able to fix and maintain them if they were used so much they would be water damaged.

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