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  1. LordFarkwad

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    I thought the Lawton tether setup is meant to be more like the Chicane, in that you adjoin the tether to the hitch climber (or whatever pulley you use) with a carabiner, in order to facilitate a quick transition to/from MRS/DdRT (not requiring the system to be more-or-less fully disassembled, as...
  2. LordFarkwad

    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

    A base anchor, but set high in the canopy. Or, in other words, a canopy anchor that redirects higher over multiple smaller unions, with the idea being to spread the climber's load over the several smaller unions together. The friction combined with potentially more favorable load vectors at...
  3. LordFarkwad

    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

    Does this philosophy still apply in situations where the climber would be stringing multiple smaller TIP's/PSP's together for strength/redundancy reasons? Like is often done with canobasing.
  4. LordFarkwad

    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

    Oops, sorry!
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    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

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    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

    In the video, he's opening the angle AND decreasing side-loading, or for the purpose of decreasing side-loading.
  7. LordFarkwad

    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

    In that video, it's a little bit of a different trade-off he's looking at, with the limb walk and all; in the arrangement he's describing, he's actually directing the forces more into compressing the redirect limb (that is, more in-line with the limb) as he opens up the angle, and because he's...
  8. LordFarkwad

    SRT Basal Anchor Forces - Should I Basal Anchor Across the Yard??

    I think he's talking (asking?) about the difference between a typical basal anchor arrangement where the rope is anchored at the base of the tree the climber's ascending, and an arrangement where the anchor is moved laterally to a different tree, opening the angle between the basal side of the...
  9. LordFarkwad

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    Awesome - I love all of demmmmm! Agree about Vega!
  10. LordFarkwad

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    What 11.7s are you climbing on? Varieties of Yale Ivy?
  11. LordFarkwad

    Hitch hiker/2/x thread

    @rico, do you end up with the recommended ~1.5" (I think that's how much it is) between the bottom wrap of the hitch and the body of the HH after setting/weighting it? When I ran it like that with the standard HH hitch, it tended so poorly that my over-the shoulder webbing strap tender would...
  12. LordFarkwad

    Why no hitch for SRT?

    Thinking out loud here for a second... So, when a 200lb climber is hanging motionless on DdRT, there is 100lb per leg. When the climber applies pressure to the hitch to descend, there is downward motion, so there is then less than 100lbs on the hitch side, indicated by rope sliding through the...
  13. LordFarkwad

    Why no hitch for SRT?

    Recently experimented with that. Hitch above fig8, collapse hitch and control line coming into fig8 to come down. Hitch above munter/biner, collapse hitch and control line entering munter to come down. Both were great, except the munter twisted the line like crazy.
  14. LordFarkwad

    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    Mo info is mo betta, fo sho. The rule of thumb I've heard is never let the angle of the legs at the saddle become greater than 90 degrees from each other (NOT applicable in the ToD scenario, since the legs appear to be 90 degrees apart, but are effectively 135 degrees apart). I was just...
  15. LordFarkwad

    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    Even if you have a single line, cinched anchor to each stem, as you described, and they coalesce at the saddle in a 90 deg angle, you still have 0.7x of your weight applied to each stem (the magnitude of each of the vectors from the individual stem anchors). Until the legs arriving at the...
  16. LordFarkwad

    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    @Phil, The vertical component of the load is indeed distributed between the two stems (if climber weighs 200lbs, then there is 100lbs on each stem, but only in the vertical direction). The horizontal component of the force is, as you noted, potentially increased, dependent upon line angles...
  17. LordFarkwad

    rope runner pro

    Easy lesson to not forget! xD
  18. LordFarkwad

    Minimalist rope walking setups?

    Haha man, I try to not sling too much jargon, except when I'm talking with subject matter experts, as are present on this site, and only in contexts that doing so adds clarity. Apologies if the acronyms confound things. One of the things that I've found to be true in this and also other...
  19. LordFarkwad

    Rope Wrench - Hitch/Rope compendium.

    Cornell Hitch, 4-wrap, 28" 9.3mm epi eye to eye, Marlow Vega and Yale/Samson Ivy varieties. I'm 195lbs, in the buck. Two finger descent initiation. Immediate arrest of descent when released. Had never locked up hard, so far. I was formerly almost exclusively a Mich. man. This is better. Only...
  20. LordFarkwad

    Minimalist rope walking setups?

    Oooo - I did have to lanyard in to do the conversion to double, so using the tail is a pretty awesome idea. I don't quite follow the long tail recommendation though...doesn't just clipping into the tail of the cinching knot mean that the climbing side you ascend on should be 2x the total height...

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