homemade pully saver?

I use the "duck saver" a lot after fooling around with the pulley saver and lots of home made pulley savers.

If you visit treetools blog (new zealand forum...) you can see some pics and you def have to read the comment, there was a little rush about it but I'm still happy using it and it works great every time.

just type in pulley saver at the blog search and please read all the comments as well ;-)


climb safe
wouter
 
I also picked up a 3" rigging ring to try and use as my eye for a pulley saver. I foresaw it getting stuck way too much and never bothered. Plus I had dreams of it being throwline retrievable without a preset line, but just way too much friction with 4 the parts of moving throwline.
 
Here is mine. It works great, always comes apart and hardly ever gets stuck. Keeping the prussik short is key and having a continous loop on the pinto instead of two splices helps keep everything lined up.
 

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thanks, paul! i TOTALLY agree with you about the ring being rated...everything must be. my saver used a web sling girth hitched to a large rated arborist ring and a CMI pulley shackle. this was the only pulley i could find (rated and small enough) to fit through the ring. a light accessory cord was in a three wrap, six coil prusik loop near the pulley end. although the length was not adjustable, i didn't mind, as i only wanted it for a choked TIP that would follow me around a spar.
it worked very well, mostly, but i had to abandon that pulley since it wouldn't stay positioned properly with enough reliability.
i talked to my tree care product supplier and he found a larger rated ring which i hope to receive soon, allowing me to use my red pinto. i also though of a spring for a retrieval device...one with 1/2" diameter and 1/2" coil spacing allowing the tail of the line to be 'spun in', but a brass snaps work pretty well.
 
nice saver, matt. did you splice something into the large eye yourself? wondering what you used...
 
i love that idea. i sure hope the tubing lasts you, although a new spliced tail wouldn't break the bank. you said it almost never gets stuck. do you think when it does, it might be because of the tubing edges?
 
That hasnt been an issue yet. What did happen at first was the tubing would run down the eye and then the pinto would end up only in the rope portion. I fixed that by stitching the tub in place.

The times it has gotten stuck are situation where any friction saver would have gotten stuck (coming apart but then falling in a lower tight crotch, stuff like that). I've been real happy with it so far.
 
i think i'll be trying your setup. thanks for sharing, especially about the prusik loop vs. eye 2 eye...nice job.
 
Great setup Matt, thanks for posting.

I'll second what he said also about the importance of having a short prussic for the pulley and setting it on a loop rather than splicing eyes onto the lobes of the pulley. Made both those mistakes with my first model and it made my like difficult.

FWIW I'm gonna make a model (so far my third, but who's keeping count?) using hard, curved PVC in place of the rubber plumbing tubing. Report to follow...
 
Sean, its All Gear Tech cord spliced in a loop.
Josh, you could use a prespliced lanyard, but it will be hard to get anything rigid around the eye!!!
 
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