High Tech?

[Tom Dunlap]

Louie,

Go back and look in this thread for a pic of the Rope Guide: http://www.treebuzz.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/barbr27/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000080

The climbing rope is threaded through the shackle that's hanging on the lower right, attached to the short runner. Then the climber's rope goes over the sheave. To retrieve the RG, I detach my climbing line and pull the splice end back over the pulley which is then pulled out when the splice catches on the shackle. Follow? If your rope wasn't spliced you'd have to come up with an alternate stopper system that would still slip through the shackle that holds the sheave.

Tom

 

[Colin]

Mark
that what you call the "Metal Machard" Mark is like you said just a variation off the Rope Guide some off us are playing around with on our own risk! It`s something like playing around with some new knot(Like when the Machard or the Distel came) nobody used before. It is not going to be anything official. It will not replace the Lockjack! So any prices and are just rumours. You wont find a "Metal Machard" on the market but you find the Rope Guide! Know what I mean?
And what you use to decent is a little lever you can install later on. There are two drillings allready on the Rope Guide. They are ment to be for an other variation off the Rope Guide, some kind off an "Positioner" (like a microcender on the sidestrop), or whatever you will call it. And that thing will be available.
Have fun!
Thilo

 

[Colin]

Forgot something as usual! Hubert will be at the TCI and I`am shure he will sort out all kind of unclearness!
Thilo