How many active climbers use a blakes hitch all the time.

I'm a small business owner and the climber for my company, I've been an employee recently enough to really understand the impact that equipment has on my ease of production throughout the day. Even if an item doesn't actually increase production, if it increases efficiency then I have more energy at the end of the day, meaning I can play with my kids, spend time with my wife, go recreate, etcetera.. And I go to work every day for them, I work to live rather than live to work. I happen to be fortunate enough to do something I love, but if I'm too exhausted to spend time with my family at the end of the day, what's the point? I don't deny that there are plenty of guys who could smoke me in a tree with a Blake's while I'm on my Rope Runner, but imagine what they'd be capable of if they would update.
 
swingdude said:
Whoa it's Ted, how are ya bro.....and you are right if folks love climbing on a blake's then so be it...and there are a lot of climbers that are great with it....but the reality of it all is that those systems will soon be like the dinasaurs EXTINCT....lol :p....hey maybe by 2060 at least.....
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Paul! I'm good bro! Lots going on for me these days. In my opinion, as long as people are climbing with rope hitches the Blakes hitch will survive. I'll bet somebody thought the axe would become extinct when the saw was invented.
Haha "saw was" is a palindrome!
 
Ted you are so right bro, I am just kidding.....as you know....a closed blakes system is still a great way to start climbing...tautline too...anyway glad all is well, and I still love a rope hitch just a VT with da wrench....lol
 
i think there are a lot of climbers out there (mostly likely of the younger crowd) who, if they had more exposure to more progressive techniques, would shell out their own money to buy gear. i bought most of my own stuff. i just really like climbing. i have a co worker who, before i worked with him, he had really only watched someone climb or a blakes or tautline. so thats what he learned and thats what he worked off.
now he's seen me climb off a hitch climber for a bit, and got his own set up. now that he saw it, had someone to show him the hitches and the set up, hes off and tearing it up with that set up.
not everyone has a sherrill catalogue or goes to trade shows. they dont know else is out there
 
I started on a blakes, then I watched a Dave Lutes vid one day and said yeah I am using a split tail with a micro mouse but this dude is rocking something so much sweeter.....it was a gold HC pulley with a beeline VT....and I was off to the races....never had a splice anything before that day now I am a rope junkie, hell I have a box with at least 30 brand new prussics of all types, plus I have 10 used rotating at anytime....I just got rid of two kernmaster lines, but I have a rotation of 7 different climb lines....yeah I am a gear head....but I do know how to use it all......I am always looking for different set ups...it's fun and keeps things interesting....Kiwi Climbers or the spikeascender which will use with Geckos or Distels is my next big climbing interest for removals SRT....which is the only way I do them....I do derail on da buzz a lot....these days I like sharing good finds.....and look at my new HAAS and arbpro boots which was my good friend's Eric ( Oceans ) brainchild....also look at my chest harness I been using for nearly three years to tend my SRT system....lots have bought them ....
 

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Jay, it ran great with the RR but I found it a tad bouncy....I am a cougar, aztec, Luna, PI type of dude....the kern is really good rope but seems like it wont take a beating and I had three hanks so I traded off two new hanks for some Distels which I want to add the spikeascender when it hits the market in Oct from NZ...I kept the older kern.....
 
swingdude said:
I started on a blakes, then I watched a Dave Lutes vid one day and said yeah I am using a split tail with a micro mouse but this dude is rocking something so much sweeter.....it was a gold HC pulley with a beeline VT....and I was off to the races....never had a splice anything before that day now I am a rope junkie, hell I have a box with at least 30 brand new prussics of all types, plus I have 10 used rotating at anytime....I just got rid of two kernmaster lines, but I have a rotation of 7 different climb lines....yeah I am a gear head....but I do know how to use it all......I am always looking for different set ups...it's fun and keeps things interesting....Kiwi Climbers or the spikeascender which will use with Geckos or Distels is my next big climbing interest for removals SRT....which is the only way I do them....I do derail on da buzz a lot....these days I like sharing good finds.....and look at my new HAAS and arbpro boots which was my good friend's Eric ( Oceans ) brainchild....also look at my chest harness I been using for nearly three years to tend my SRT system....lots have bought them ....
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Nice Dave lutes reference. He is a hell of a guy, and a good personal friend of mine. I learned to climb from him. Hit me up if your ever in Winnipeg.
 
swingdude said:
Richard, how can an actual percentage be derived....a census would have to be done...that number is just thrown from a hat....:confused:
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Yes I understand, it's not an actual number, just a general feeling from a group I think has a pretty good idea of what's out there beyond this forum and in many different areas.
I find it interesting and trying to understand.
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
i think there are a lot of climbers out there (mostly likely of the younger crowd) who, if they had more exposure to more progressive techniques, would shell out their own money to buy gear. i bought most of my own stuff. i just really like climbing. i have a co worker who, before i worked with him, he had really only watched someone climb or a blakes or tautline. so thats what he learned and thats what he worked off.
now he's seen me climb off a hitch climber for a bit, and got his own set up. now that he saw it, had someone to show him the hitches and the set up, hes off and tearing it up with that set up.
not everyone has a sherrill catalogue or goes to trade shows. they dont know else is out there
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It's the silo effect. Too many co's work in isolation from each other and are suspicious to share.
 
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treehumper said:
It's the silo effect. Too many co's work in isolation form each other and are suspicious to share.
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This is so foreign to me, there is SO much information available now days with online catalogs, YouTube not to mention where we are now, etc. (I, know, some crap too) ALL FOR FREE and if anything it should generate enough interest to get real information from real professionals or at least care enough to sort it out and give it some thought.
I'll take some crap for this comment but if a person wants to call themselves a professional (anything) they need to give it a lot of thought, investment in time, energy, learning and INVEST a few bucks. (invest vs. expense) If a person can't spend more money than for a rope and carabiner...........well, nuff said.

P.S. I know the group I am talking about is not reading this so I think my life and home are safe, besides they may be too tired from climbing on a Blakes hitch all day to come "teach me a thing or two".
 
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