Lanyard Positioner?

39Buick said:
I appreciate all of the feedback you all have provided!! Placed an order for the Positioner 2 so the training will begin in a few days!!
Can't express my gratitude enough for all the great advice and points of views!!!
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Good luck with it. Hope you enjoy it!
 
ghostice said:
Use an ART with swivel on a double ended lanyard setup for years. There's a bunch of info out there that shows an ART swivel used with an additional prussik on top of it - presumably to prevent sudden letgo's. Just for the heck of it, I tried this a bit and just found it fussy (and one time the prussik got sappy maybe and jammed up) - went back to just the plain ART. Great lanyard adjuster. My two cents. Cheers
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Never ever heard of anybody adding a hitch to the positioner, maybe a rope wrench or similar device, can you link me to that info?
 
This video has a bit of a self contradiction.
It shows it positions ok for SRT as a lanyard but says it's not ok for SRT climbing. Your SRT lanyard could become your sole life support in a blink double tied in during a cut. (?) Also kind of weird pushing the handle up to descend DRT rather than pulling it down. Does the lever tend to lock up on full SRT mode descent? I suspect so. The grillon does but then they expect you to route the rope over the side for extra friction (grigri).
 
39Buick said:
Looking at a couple mechanical devices for lanyard adjusters. Would appreciate your input and opinions on making the choice easier for me!! Thanks in Advance!!
In my budget window currently I have narrowed it down to the ART Positioner 2 Swivel and the Notch Glide. Please tell me what you guys think??
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Maybe it's been said, what about the various Bulldog Bone line-up?
 
ghostice said:
Use an ART with swivel on a double ended lanyard setup for years. There's a bunch of info out there that shows an ART swivel used with an additional prussik on top of it - presumably to prevent sudden letgo's. Just for the heck of it, I tried this a bit and just found it fussy (and one time the prussik got sappy maybe and jammed up) - went back to just the plain ART. Great lanyard adjuster. My two cents. Cheers
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pics please
 
Looks like desicion has been made but I run an og swivel zig zag. F ing epic work positioning, tending,second tie in point, etc. Have to get use to accidentally bumping it though, the little drop can be startling at first. Haa
 
Bart_ said:
This video has a bit of a self contradiction.
It shows it positions ok for SRT as a lanyard but says it's not ok for SRT climbing. Your SRT lanyard could become your sole life support in a blink double tied in during a cut. (?) Also kind of weird pushing the handle up to descend DRT rather than pulling it down. Does the lever tend to lock up on full SRT mode descent? I suspect so. The grillon does but then they expect you to route the rope over the side for extra friction (grigri).
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He’s pulling the handle down to descend, taking up slack when the handle goes up.
 
Buick39 is right the Spiderjack 2 has a top and bottom handle making it look like only a forward motion.

Played around with the HH hitch, always thought the not grabbing unless tied very tight was due to the wide spreading from the dogbone. But even together on a carabiner it would slip, another wrap helped. Tried crossing the bottom wrap on top of the top one and it held with four wraps.
 
Sorta like the Reflex these days - table in the manual on page 8 sez SRT device alone under 300 lbs SRT, then EasyEddyTrees sez read the section in the back of the manual saying you need extra friction and it's all just cuz people don't read the manual . . . . and around we go.
 
snunyabizness said:
this is making my head hurt. I actually follow Diagenon on y/t but his videos have zero explanation and he doesn't respond to comments. interesting though lots of bling. It seems like his goal was just trying to prevent rope slack (esp wire core) from falling through the positioner.
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I got a response from him once on a video about his tool that he made for placing the throw ball over a single branch from his extendable pole, but yea, I think he just said thank you and that he would post a video about it, and then that was the next days video. That tool he made was pretty awesome.
 
Brocky - memory test I hope I pass! ;) My contradiction comment was cut-line, SRT-lanyard(ok)-becomes-life-support(not ok). Self contradiction in manual.

I remember somewhere's around +/- 5 coils on the HH knot. 100% reliable. Maybe you had unco-operative hitch cord type? I was using un-eyed HRC (on tachyon) because I had to thread it through my anchor points, I measured HRC at 10 mm but Mark said it's 8mm, an ongoing mystery, left unsolved. Just dug it out of storage and it doesn't even feel all that supple. Strikes me like OG beeline.
 
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