Drop Some Hitch Food for Thought

[Bart_]

Doing some low testing, 3/1 michoacan w RW SRT and I had just abused the hitch lockup-ish but not. So I re-fiddled the knot and it looked ok so on I went.

I dropped 3.7" in 0.35 seconds(!), instant rope load 3/4 body weight followed by a hard grab stop 1.5 G's. Actually sped up my pulse. Very sudden sensation you wouldn't want up in a tree. In the time of the blink of an eye.

So pre-check or be redundant suspended if you mess with your hitch!

edit - it was a 4/1 michoacan just stretched out

 

[Muggs]

Were you standing on a limb to fiddle with the hitch and then when you sat into it, it slipped down? You must have disengaged the wrench, I doubt you could slip like that while the wrench was wrenching

 

[Bart_]

A RW doesn't do much wrenching unless the rope passing through it is tight, which it wasn't fully tight, and it takes 2 or 3" to set a RW and I just reset the system probably without pre-setting the RW. I think I possibly triggered it by touching the hitch but really more likely as I was just sitting my weight into it the hitch was just dressed in an unstable fashion.

I was standing on the floor in my basement skunkworks Measured values read off my Skunkworks Bat-Computer