Cheap SRT friction device for rope walking?

The typical 4-2 Blake's can be made to descend on SRT by pulling down on the tail and pushing the top down at the same time, carefully. It would work, but I didn't like not having a brake hand on the rope.
I didn't think a single eye hitch could work for SRT, but after playing around with it and combining it with the Knut H, came up with what I'm calling The Super Hitch. I tried it with 9mm RIT on 11mm semi static rope, and it released easily.
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@Brocky was playing with a carabiner brake bar a while ago, looked promising. It's a no-no to load biners that way but maybe one day someone will build a biner made for it. I really doubt the biner would fail if it's just adding friction and not carrying full body weight.

Petzl Freino might be worth experimenting with too. Anyone here tinker w/ one before?
 

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Mowerr said:
Or I think you could place the 8 above the hitch with a life support rated tether to your central attachment point on your harness. Plus placing brake hands above and Definatly below your hitch will help. Most guys can hold their weight with both hands alone if all else failed. I like to grab low and kinda wrap the rope behind my back or under my leg and hold it there with my hand so the contact of the rope on my body adds friction too
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Only downside is you need to be able to unweight the climbing line in order to install the F8 above the hitch

southsoundtree said:
Make a wooden rope-wrench out of a stick.
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OG Ropewrench is where it’s at
 
Jan_ said:
. . . I could maybe make one of those RWs from sheet metal. . .
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I made both sides of my very first DIY rope wrench out of 1/4 inch marine plywood saturated with epoxy resin. Worked fine but I did eventually make two more out of 1/8 inch thick aluminium. (I used the same band saw to cut the aluminium as I had used on the plywood).
 
Burrapeg said:
I made both sides of my very first DIY rope wrench out of 1/4 inch marine plywood saturated with epoxy resin. Worked fine but I did eventually make two more out of 1/8 inch thick aluminium. (I used the same band saw to cut the aluminium as I had used on the plywood).
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I think I am going to try making one out of 3mm aluminum sheet in a couple of months (I currently have no space to work). If I stack two sheets of aluminum I might be able to cut them on my jigsaw and still get two identical pieces. If I drill the holes before cutting, I should be able to bolt the two sheets together and keep them from separating while cutting.

Until then, does anybody have more Information on the wooden RW? I can't find more than a picture and a reference to it in the "ropewrench for <15$" thread...

edit: I think I have found the original thread on here, is the wooden ropewrench just a stick with 2 holes?

edit 2: Does anybody have measurements for making a ropewrench? I dont know how much of a gap I would need between the two "working" bolts.
 
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