How in sam hill....

That's knot possible. Which means it is only possible with knots.

Thursday was quite windy and I had a devil of a time managing my lines. You'd expect it with the throw line, but this was one of those days that my climbing line went everywhere I didn't want it to. Trying to feed it down the right path through the branches...'knot' happening.
 
Probability says if enough monkeys bang away randomly at keyboards, eventually they'll type the Encyclopedia Britannica.


There's an analogy in there somewhere! :burlas:
 
Here's a couple of frustrations I've had lately. Trying to retrieve my choked canopy anchor somehow the tail tied a half hitch on itself forcing me to go up and retrieve it. Then when I was using rope on one side T.L. on the other to set a friction saver. It dropped back out of the union three quarters of the way up. Happens sometimes, usually it all comes out in the wash. Not this time! no idea how it got so twisted up. Nothing like finishing a climb then having to start all over, setting a new line to go retrieve stuff. LolIMAG1215.webp IMAG1216.webp IMAG1016.webp
 
JeffGu said:
How is the climb line getting so hockled and twisted up? You using a Port-a-Wrap and a ATV winch for ascent/descent?



Yeah, it is... can't say as I've ever seen a mess like that, before.
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I've looked at that pic for a while now, and I gotta say, it looks like the fimbleSAVER rolled down the branch, causing each side to rotate and create the hockle. But, knowing Bill, I can't imagine he would allow this to happen, so it HAS to be something else.
 
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crazy right lol as I said installing FS from ground using rope on one side TL on the other. the TL was nice and isolated in the union before I tied the FS on so definitely didn't roll down a branch into a union but as I said the FS fell back out of the union after I had already started pulling my eyeslaice up toward the small ring. It happens sometimes but usually you can still just keep pulling it up and it works itself out, this time it didn't. Somehow in the process of working itself out it got all hockled up. I couldn't even see what was going on from the ground I jumped on both sides of that several times... couldn't understand why it wouldn't budge. Lol
I think it might just be from the rope. It's NE safety vee. I've never used it before. I only have this one because it came with slaice terminations. I think maybe the pattern on it causes it to spin up. I have noticed that when I unclip after a climb it unwinds sometimes.
 
Bill, I know of two methods of remotely setting a Rr FS. There are probably many more, but I'm just curious which way you do it. My thinking is the method that flips the FS over the branch and leaves you with Throwline threaded through both rings allowing the Climbline to be pulled straight through both rings might be the way to go with that line.
 
Murphy at his finest today. I dinged my first throw on about a 60 ft target this morning and got a little miffed when my throw ball got stuck. No problem. I will just use another throw line. How in Sam Hill did I get two throw balls stuck in the same crotch? Oh, I didnt see the branch going through the crotch from the ground. :muyenojado:
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Sure glad I climb SRT all the way. Although there was one time when I was pulling out my rope and it decided to act like Indiana Jones' whip.
 
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