A couple of interesting biners

O Tom,

You are just as much a gadgedfreak as I am.

If it's shiny I buy, and sh!t my pants on the way home thinking "how am I gonna explain the use of this one" to my girl. Dous it sound familiar. If your'e good at finding excuses, can you help me on this one.

Wolter
 

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Yeah, that is a cool one. I have no clue how it could be used for tree work though.

Sometimes there is no justification for having the gear other than as a compliment to the designer/engineer. The "Cool Factor" can get to be expensive :)

Last week when I went to Neptune Mountaineering to look at portaledges I remembered taht I wanted to get a DMM Revolver. Charley Wagner was with me and he bought one too, just like a couple of crows :)

This is the upper part of my RADS system. The Revolver replaces a biner and pulley in the system. Since it's shorter I can compress the system a bit more.
 

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i can think of 1 possible use.....as a redirect. i normally run my 2 lines through a biner and sometimes they cross and dont run very smooth. i have been meaning to buy myself a small double pulley for this purpose....this could do the trick too though.
 
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O Tom,

You are just as much a gadgedfreak as I am.

If it's shiny I buy, and sh!t my pants on the way home thinking "how am I gonna explain the use of this one" to my girl. Dous it sound familiar. If your'e good at finding excuses, can you help me on this one.

Wolter

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i am interested in a good excuse to as i am in the same boat
 
You guys are way too honest :)

It's been a long time since I had to justify purchases but there is a strategy. Bring the gear home, shuffle it into your kit. After a while, if you're caught, you can say, "Oh, that old thing. I bought it a long time ago." Are you good at lieing? ;)

You can also play the "Safety" strategy. No one can argue with working safer. The idea is to justify the purchase because it will make your job safer. Sometimes, just saying that is enough. But you better be ready with a story in case you get the next question. "How does it make your job safer?" Keep the story short. The longer the story the more unbelievable it is no matter if it is true.

Splitting the ropes in a redi is a great use of the biner.
 
I use the revolver as a redirect (one on each end) just flip it over a branch. In the end it wil come out with the frictionsacver I showed you in an other post.

On my question at DMM if it was possible to manifacture a double revolver (two rollers next to oneother) to use as a redi their statment was "not yet but we are working on revolvers with two different locking mechanisms".

Wolter
 

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well i used the safety for the boots, since my partner complained of feet problems i explained i needed a steel shank for climbing. now i also used the shuffle into the kit trick with some shears the other day but i think she saw me.
 
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Yeah, that is a cool one. I have no clue how it could be used for tree work though.

Sometimes there is no justification for having the gear other than as a compliment to the designer/engineer. The "Cool Factor" can get to be expensive :)

Last week when I went to Neptune Mountaineering to look at portaledges I remembered taht I wanted to get a DMM Revolver. Charley Wagner was with me and he bought one too, just like a couple of crows :)

This is the upper part of my RADS system. The Revolver replaces a biner and pulley in the system. Since it's shorter I can compress the system a bit more.

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that pink paint would keep me from stealing it i tell ya
 
At the end of a day working with buddies it's really easy to sort my gear out of the mess. Charley told me that he lost three Petzl lockers at the AR workshop. "Loaned" them out and they didn't come back at the end of the day. :(

I never worry about my gear being stolen just not getting it back. So far, the pink paint has done the trick :)
 
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Sometimes there is no justification for having the gear other than as a compliment to the designer/engineer.


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How does the pink paint effect the "compliment" to the designer/engineer?
 
I picked up this little gem last weekend. Makes setting a re de really easy although it needs to be set as a removable re de or you climb back to it.
 

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Here's one of many ways to do it, using an old split tail.

Cinch the prussik up to the branch, then clip a bit of throwline, or bottom end of climbing rope to the dog clip. When finished using the re de, lanyard in, then pull the throwline/climbing rope and pull the prussik off the end of the split tail. The pulley will then run down your rope to you.
 

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There are more compact ways of doing this, using one peice of rope instead of two like mine. I saw a good way to do it last weekend but havn't made one yet, plus using one bit of rope means you have to tie the prussik (or similar) while in the tree, at the redirect point, this might be fiddly. The version shown above can be ready to go. I've only used it a few times and it works well.
 
Pink isn't a compliment to the designer really :) But if I didn't care enough about the gear to try to not loose it that wouldn't be right. Gotta control gear-drift :)

A while ago Tim Walsh came to work for me for a few days. I had a large Gibbs that was a duplicate so I traded him for part of his wages. Of course, it had pink paint traces on it. Later in the summer Tim was doing a rigging workshop with Don Blair. Don was out front talking and Tim was setting up the rigging. As Don was describing the setup he said something about a friend of their's in Minneapolis who painted all of his hardware pink so he would know if anyone stole the gear. At that exact time, Tim reaches into his bag, fishes around and pulls out the Gibbs for the rigging. He didn't think anything of it. But then the whole group started cracking up. It was pink. Caught red-handed. Tim tried to explain that it was a trade but no one would have a bit of that line :) The two of them couldn't have set that up any better if they had practiced.
 
Thats a funny story. Having re read my post to you, it sounds as though I'm being rude! Not my intention, maybe I should use more graemlins. /forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Rupe,

No worries :)

I get flak for using pink but when I explain how easy it is to sort gear a lot of people get that look where the head tips to the side and the eyes squint. Hmmmm...they remember loosing some gear...what color should they use. Pink is already mine :)
 
Rupe,

Who makes that double sheave pulley?
Do you have a model number?
Does it come without the center plate? Having the center plate makes it a hassle to set and use as a doubled rope redirect. It's possible to remove the center plate from CMI doubles but I wonder how much that effects the strength?
 
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