That depends on the diameter of your rope. On my 12mm 16 strand there is much less load on the hitch with a wrench, on drenaline there is a only little bit less than in MRS for me. But always less than MRS. I don't climb on 11mm or something like that though.
We have ropes up in trees for up to two years with almost no issues in our adventure parks, we have had one instance where a squirrel chewed on one, but we usually have two parallel lines to have redundancy anyway. We exclusively use kernmantle static line. I've ascended on one where the entire...
Can't help you with the lengths, that depends on your climbing style, type of work, type of trees, etc. I personally would probably go 15m and 30m though. And I'd leave the splice on the long side...
I would suggest wrapping electrical tape or putting shrinkwrap over the intended cut, and cut...
I have the Singing Rock Dome harness, which is quite well made, but there isn't any use on it either. I also have one of their biners. The other stuff I have that's made in CZ is Wera screwdrivers which are excellent.
I think for 350$ I would probably pay the little more to get the Treerex...
Very nice, glad you like them. Yours look a lot nicer than mine too. I like the yew and honey locust, the red cedar is not my color...
I really like the idea of using the bungee to attach it like that. I wonder if the knot gets in the way of pulling the rope off easily though.
I don't see why you would want to use a dynamic rope in it, but you could, as long as it's between 10 and 11mm.
I don't think anybody actually works a tree with it, unless it's more or less straight up and down.
Not really if your foot technique is good. I used to do that when I didn't have ascenders yet. The foot technique is the only thing I can claim I'm good at when it comes to footlocking though... I'm not fluid at anything else at all.
It is a little bit more tiring to hold the single line with...
Here's a pic of the side.
I envy you for the lathe, I really needed one recently when I made the retrieval ball you can see on my saddle. Had to improvise with the drill and angle grinder...
What saddle do you use, @Njdelaney ?
Plenty of room in a large petzl swivel for two biners, can even still pass a gate through. 3 biners fit, but not well. Cali swivel is great for multiple attachments too.
Same here, hoping this will make it easier for me...
I used to daisy chain it through a gear loop I attached just for that purpose. Worked very well, but this seems better.
@Njdelaney The pins have two holes, the top one has the bungee, the bottom one is for the ziptie to attach it to the...
So after seeing the Arborixx rope pins being used for lanyard organization on Instagram, I decided to make my own. The rope pins cost about 30€ for a set of three, I can make about 20 for less than 3€.
I used 8mm beech dowels, and some bungee I had on hand.
Easy to give and pull out slack, but...
Hows the friction on limbwalks and such? Or do you collapse the wrenches there?
I'm open to trying it, I'll have to see what combination works best, I don't have duplicates of devices. I have a ZZ/Chicane, RW and Akimbo.