hitch cord

[JTree]

So I'm about to hang up my wrench and give the HH a go......now that I don't have to splice i2is, I think I'll try out some different hitch cords as well.

I own 1/2 in climbing lines, Arbormaster mostly, and I doubt I'll ever switch over to 5/16" lines.

I have been using OP 10mm, and ice tail (when I didn't feel like splicing more OP). Anyone using 9 mm hitch cords on 1/2" line? How about 8 mm lines? It's never really worked out well for me before, but I don't know how much friction the HH takes off the knot.

I'm a big guy. 220 ish out of the shower. What are y'all's thoughts?

 

[Leroy]

In my experience the HH took quite a bit of friction from the knot. I used 8mm armour prus on Imori for a bit and it worked great. I think Imori is close the 1/2 inch. Interesting it seems that big guys prefer the HH to the Wrench. I weigh about 150 and had trouble getting the HH to move a low angles.

 

[joezilla11]

If your using smaller diameter cord just add an extra wrap but I still prefer 10mm cord. Better feel and less heat to your fingers. Even with 10mm cord I'll put an extra wrap then fold it down so it's like a 6 wrap 2 braid. You don't have to cinch it so tight that way slack tending is easy and that extra braid helps the hitch grab.

 

[JTree]

Really, it isn't that I don't like the wrench. It beats the crap out of DdRTing all day every day.

I'm just thinking I may like the HH better for spar work (been doing a lot of it recently). That and while I am comfortable splicing my own i2is, the novelty of splicing has worn off. It has become a chore that I really could do without or at least a reduced load. Now that I know I am capable of splicing my own, I have a problem paying someone else to do it for me.

 

[JTree]

An extra wrap......makes sense. More cord to spread the friction around. Heat transfer to hand never really has been an issue to me as I regularly wear gloves. Had to get in the habit with all the conifers I've had resently. I'll try out some of the 8 mm cord then as well. The investment of trying different cords won't be as big of a deal now without the splicing.