DMM throw hook.

My pulley system stays on always...I use it then send it down..bye bye...I am not climbing with that crap on me....that is what ground staff is for...give them something to do....
 
Been in the front yard practicing on a bottle brush tree (Callistemon Viminalis). These trees are nicely shaped to grip rope, eat knots, lock-hold biners and snag hooks. The Captain is going well.

Really good technique advice in this thread. Been practising twisting with/without flicks to orientate for grab/non-grab. Testing speeds of pull back. The well designed shape really does allow you to orientate it as desired for grab/non-grab. When it grabs it really grabs solid, again the design has some flatness on the inner radius.

Pull backs necessitate PPE. lol, I was doing this from the ground with a plunger coffee in hand - don't mix coffee and tree gear, only mix coffee with buzz reading or dreaming up crazy gearless, remotely retrievable, no pull line redirects.
 
Steve Connally said:
How would the hitch work better? I'm not seeing it. Also what size and length cordage would you use with a 10mm line?
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It works well for ascending, binds up going down as expected, for short moves down hitch is no problem. Any 28 or 30" 8mm hitch cord would work well on the 10mm Sirius, ascend like you would with a wrench or runner except it's just the hitch.
 
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I was traversing around in a woods red oak this evening, to climb up the hook leg of the traverse I made a RADS using an 8mm Sirius e-2-e ring set up someone gave me a long time ago. I usually use it for making redirects. Made a Klemheist hitch and then put a bight of the tail through the ring and pulled down on the leg of the bight coming out of the Cinch. Simple and fast 3:1 ascent, worked fine. You could use an 8mm hitch cord and a carabiner and work up from with fancier RADS rigs with a Revolver or the roll-n-lock etc..
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moss said:
It works well for ascending, binds up going down as expected, for short moves down hitch is no problem. Any 28 or 30" 8mm hitch cord would work well on the 10mm Sirius, ascend like you would with a wrench or runner except it's just the hitch.
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For me Andrew it is over and up....lol
 
swingdude said:
Chest harness...and pantin...never use 3:1 in any SRT climbing ever
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Absolutely. The 3:1 is what you get if you put a RADS on a device like a Cinch. These are relatively short pulls so the 3:1 is actually helpful. Many folks use a simple RADS to come back from deep limbwalks on a wrench or other multicender 3:1. The rest of us gut it out and yank ourselves back 1:1 when the situation arises.
-AJ
 
Swing do you need me to send you some more medicine. Little grumpy today? ?lol

Never mind my questions Dave. I need to stop huffing spray paint. I don't know what I was thinking. It's crystal clear now. Lol
 
moss said:
I was traversing around in a woods red oak this evening, to climb up the hook leg of the traverse I made a RADS using an 8mm Sirius e-2-e ring set up someone gave me a long time ago. I usually use it for making redirects. Made a Klemheist hitch and then put a bight of the tail through the ring and pulled down on the leg of the bight coming out of the Cinch. Simple and fast 3:1 ascent, worked fine. You could use an 8mm hitch cord and a carabiner and work up from with fancier RADS rigs with a Revolver or the roll-n-lock etc..
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Thanks for posting the photo of that setup, moss. Much appreciated.

Tim
 
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