HAAS imitation

[Leroy]

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[bwktreeserv]

Yeah buddy!

 

[oldoakman]

This is my Home made Haas immitation. I made this about 2 years before he came out with his. I do want to splice in a piece of Tenex and get rid of the excessive hardware though. Imagine all the money I could have made with this between the time I made mine and Frank made his???

 

[oldoakman]

Thanks. Other than the Croll, I only have about $15 or $20 in the whole thing. The only hardware that will go away with a TENEX replacement will be the screw link and the connecting strap. The foot harness stays on and the rest unclips from the delta link. Works fine for me.

 

[countryboypa31]

Didn't copy the hass, but it works in much the same way. I find this much more versatile. Its not quite as quick on ascent, but its also not much slower. All the components have multiple uses. Which fancy's my flavor

 

[macswan]

that aint half bad Derrick

 

[countryboypa31]

Its def gets you where you want to go in good time. I first started using this in Georgia ascending there pine trees. Most were around 135'. I didn't want to carry extra gear that i didn't need. I would use the dyneema foot strap for redirects and also use the croll for traversing. I have other uses for the strap as well. Its amazing what you can do with it!

 

[bwktreeserv]

Very cool Derrick! Great idea!

 

[Howie65]

I use a Pantin with the lower part of a Petzl "Footape". In my opinion the right Pantin works best as a left knee ascender and the left Pantin for right side.
Thanks to the Pantin the length of the foot loop is easy adjustable.

 

[macswan]

Didn't copy the hass, but it works in much the same way. I find this much more versatile. Its not quite as quick on ascent, but its also not much slower. All the components have multiple uses. Which fancy's my flavor

Derrick, what is the bungee you are using with the kroll there?

 

[countryboypa31]

http://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?category_id=161&item=1962

I got the black (x-long) but the long version would have been better. I had to shorten mine a little with a knot.

 

[JakeRiggs]

The tree motion accessory bungee works well, have the same cord for over a year now.

 

[Wilks]

not sure if you guys can get these your side of the pond, but i use one of these on my home made haas, super strong bungee and easily adjustable
http://www.niteize.com/product/KnotBone-Adjustable-Bungee.asp

 

[Howie65]

Indeed I found sellers in Germany offer two different sizes of this bungee. Which size is yours?

 

[Howie65]

Yesterday I was out for climbing and I had forgotten a bungee of my knee ascender (see picture). I decided to integrate the bungee like it is the case for the HAAS and the SAKA that this cannot happen again.

The core innovation of the HAAS and the SAKA is that the bungee runs inside a pipe and is therefore longer at it seems to be. For the SAKA @yoyoman has spent two of this pipes which is indeed very clever because this doubles the force of the bungee without the disadvantage that they can twist.

Sometimes I am a little bit lazy and that's why I came up with the following SAKA light version. It is based on the formally shown version of my Pantin / Footape combination and I added two tubings of polyurethane (it is softer than PE) with zip ties. Effort for the modificatin was about 15 minutes.



Suggestions for improvement are welcome (if they follow the KISS principle).

 

[Howie65]

I made the first change to the "UKA" (Ultralight Knee Ascender)

As shown in the former post it can be coiled to a small package. But that's not the best for the tubing and therefore I have cut the tubing in pieces of about 5" length. Now it can be folded into a small package without deforming the tubing. This A similar technique is sometimes used for tent-poles.



For the moment I am very pleased with my selfmade knee-ascender

Edit: ultralight means 145 g (0.32 lbs) in this case

Edit2: After some tests I went back to the "uncutted" version of the tubing because every cut created additional friction for the bungee cord. If the tubing consist in one piece than it runs much smoother. Sorry for that.

 

[southsoundtree01]

Clever

 

[Howie65]

Clever

Thank you. It is my attempt to return something for the numberless information I have received from people in this forum

 

[JonesClimber]

Here is what I came up with. I had an older Petzl basic sitting around and I made up a foot strap and a connection piece for the ascender. The webbing is your standard MIL SPEC tubular and the buckle is an AustriAlpin Cobra Frame, add a piece of heavy shock cord and a mini DMM biner and WA LAH. With a foot ascender on one foot and this on the other you can get up in the tree pretty easily.

 

[JeffGu]

Here is what I came up with...

Nice, clean job!