Buck Block

Seems like it could be set just as you'd set a RING/ring.

I agree- I don't like seeing weight limits on my climbing gear. 350 is a lot...but we shouldn't have to be limited.

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Yeah you set it just like a regular friction saver and you would need a good size crotch.A bunch of us got to check one out In Shreveport and I actually broke down the masters using it.It requires the yellow retrieval ball to get it out.One side has a little metal rod the ball catches but passes thru the side without it first.I dont think the magnets would brake by looking at it-but what do i know.Im real interested in using the the rigging version looks like a great idea.I think Im more concerned with bending radius during rigging considering the forces involved.Also Would be nice installing from the ground thus elimanating a climb(installing a block) or incresing the load via single line.
 
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My concern would be the two pieces coming together so fast that they would chip or crack the magnets. But, maybe that wouldn't be of any concern or maybe they have that covered...
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I also can't visualize how to set the thing from the ground. At least from the photo they provide. It looks to me like the thing has one wrap around the trunk...
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I think once you see the blocks in person it will make more sense. You set them from the ground the same way as a FS. Take it out the same way too.



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Yeah you set it just like a regular friction saver and you would need a good size crotch.A bunch of us got to check one out In Shreveport and I actually broke down the masters using it.It requires the yellow retrieval ball to get it out.One side has a little metal rod the ball catches but passes thru the side without it first.I dont think the magnets would brake by looking at it-but what do i know.Im real interested in using the the rigging version looks like a great idea.I think Im more concerned with bending radius during rigging considering the forces involved.Also Would be nice installing from the ground thus elimanating a climb(installing a block) or incresing the load via single line.

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would this be just as well accomplished by what I think they call static removable block, as demonstrated in the Art and Science of Practical Rigging?

It would be using existing gear.
 
I think the load would quadruple with a static removable block.Guess it depends on the crotch you have chosen and weight of what your rigging,also got to calculate the dynamic forces.Put all that together * 4 and you can get into some serious.forces.
 
It can be pulled out. You will have to find a diagram. It's in the Art and Science of Practical Rigging book. Maybe someone here can post something. It requires two ropes (one long) and the block. I think Robert Phillips came up with it, send him a pm. (sonher)
 
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I wonder how those magnets will work in an ironwood tree?
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That is the 9th smartest thing/question I have ever heard anyone say about anything ever.


SZ
 
Its it kinda like when you use the tail of your rope to retieve a girth hitched loop runner.I think I got it ,pull up both tails and run it thru the midline loop with a pulley a retrieval rope and then cinch the girth hitch around the branch
 
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I wonder how those magnets will work in an ironwood tree?
eljefe

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That is the 9th smartest thing/question I have ever heard anyone say about anything ever.


SZ

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I had the 2nd smartest question Stephan ever heard anyone say ever when GWB was elected the second (first) time and I said, "WTF?!"
 
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