I don't find it so. I'm always thinking of TNPG, the next poor guy/gal, who might come this way, who'll now find your thoughtful presentation, thank you.
My attempt at an observation was that the first redirect only changes the angle on the rope at the tie-in point, with the force/tension...
@Burrapeg I guess my rudimentary chest "harness" made out of a sling and carabiner was an attempt to emulate a chest kroll. I've made a note that that's what I really need.
@TimBr Your mention of re-distribution of weight reminded me of something in my recent introduction into rigging too...
So I'm about 210#. 6' tall.
After a LOT of reading all over the place, I settled on a 10mm beeline for a Michoacan hitch for my existing new 13mm woven rope. I also concluded from reading that a stiff tether was virtually mandatory and sensed that shorter was better. I hadn't realized that...
Thanks, folks. Caught! I'd hoped to move the saddle question to the hitch-tending thread before anybody noticed, but oh no, you're way too smart for that trick. Reading between the lines, I take it a bridge for this saddle is going to look a whole lot like a completely different model--with a...
@Birdyman88 Firstly, thank you! Secondly, let me assure you that I never thought of the Rope Wrench as life support--I've read plenty, plenty, plenty to know that the hitch is the thing. However, what I was trying to say was that I was pulling down on the hitch, the way I saw it in the...
[There's a question buried below, for the perseverant.]
I am now the least-experienced "climber" on this board, unless someone else made their first climb since 6 pm this evening.
I just got my leaden 60-something self 6 feet off of mother earth. "Houston calling Spaceman Oertl." on a Rope...