Love my tree motion! Tried a couple like the ergovation and petzl sequoia which either didn't sit on my hips well or dug into my ribs pretty badly, the tree motion still kinda presses against my hips and I have to pull it up when climbing every now and then but overall it's been the best.
Well on my main line I had done some abrasion damage on the factory spliced end early on learning so I spliced the other end and climb off that now, I decided to cut off the Yale splice to milk my rope this weekend and cut it open to see what they're doing.
Can't remember what their instructions...
This^^^, coming from an engineering background, something being "rated" means some listing company, manufacturer or some party has certified through repeatable specified testing that "this will will do this when you do this" if you're concerned about the supposed rating on a piece of gear I'd...
Mainly seeing where I can get a good whip in that'll capture the most strands that won't bend every sail needle in my draw, a friend at work has shown me some stuff discussing the necessity of whipping double braid splices. Seems like loose splices like Yale in house splices would be more...
Hi all, I'm Samantha,
I've been climbing as an aborist trainee for 8ish months, I feel like I've come a long way from working in a call centre before hand, I climb nearly every day, recently won the womens student division of the VTIO annual climbing competition. I've gotten into splicing which...
flipline i did for a friend at work, came out well
my tie in
hand ascended to foot loop for another work friend
re-whipped my main line, experimenting on location of the whip
re-spliced a work friends climbing line after he cut the splice off with a 201t, despite being a used rope...