Micro pulley in climbing system

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Just bought a micro pulley for my setup, was so pumped to use this seeing it really steps up the Performance. I attached it to my biner but it's much to low to slack tend the fiction hitch.. What else do I need to buy lol ?
 
Having a hard time finding any threads to point you to but if you google "blakes hitch with pulley" and look at pics there are tons of variety for the many ways it can be setup. Opefully it will help some, I only climbed old school long enough to say I tried it when I first started learning. I think Sherrils catalog also shows a pic as well. If I find something more I will post it up.
 
I would use a small cord with dog snap attached as seen in this image
 

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I'm having a hard time figuring out (from that photo) which is the tail of the climbing line, and which is the bridge of the split tail, since they're both the same type of rope, but the micro pulley should be on the climbing line, below the Blake's. It is, correct? Otherwise, yeah, it would be rather underwhelming.
 
Cause I was attaching the dog snap to mine biner and it as to far away from the Blake's to tend any slack but now I got it lol
 
A keychain bine and pulley on your hitch biner also works, you just have to tie your hitch bridge shorter. Try tying your blakrs as short as possible and hand over hand hip thrusting LOW and SLOW tending your slack every 2-3 steps. It will help you transition to a more refined system.
 
Levi.CO said:
Try a VT. I'll send you an eye2eye.
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Yes, try a VT! I climbed on the Blake's hitch on double rope for about a year or so until I got wise and bought a prusik cord and a hitch climber. I am very small and light, so I never liked using a slack tending pulley on my Blake's because of the added tension in the system. However when I started using the hitch climber system, I could hand over hand up a few feet and then effortlessly tend slack below the pulley. This also helped me tend slack while coming in off the branch from a limbwalk, which I had trouble running the Blake's and feeling comfortable on a limbwalk. It also releases very easy and although I've read about climbers not liking the VT knot because sometimes it might not bight while putting your weight back on it, I have never had any troubles.
 
Just like any friction knot, get into the habit of setting it before you sit back. Do it enough and it will become second nature. You never know when there might be some debris or a wet spot on the rope, better safe than sorry.
 
X3 on the VT! Blakes is good to know, good tool to have in the mental toolbox, but VT is so much better. When I'm not on the ZZ, here's mine:
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Sorry, sideways photo. Tree branch in the bight to left, saddle attached to carabiner to the right. By sliding the mini cord and 'biner up or down the standing part of your climb line, you can adjust your effective bridge length to what ever you want (close in for spiking/dense foliage work; far out for maximum body thrusting ability).

Samson 11mm Velocity with, if I remember correctly, 8mm Oceans eye 'n eye and a Mickey Mouse pulley to advance it.
 
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WyattHaskins said:
I've read about climbers not liking the VT knot because sometimes it might not bight while putting your weight back on it
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I've had that issue occasionally, but usually it's when my micro cord, on the standing part of my line, catches on the VT on the running part of my line and pulls it up a little. No biggie.
 
tuttle said:
It makes me wonder.....do all climbers still use 13mm line? As there are frictionless systems plus 10.5mm ropes are so light.
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dude 10.5mm is too small for me, and i have little hands. a little rope weight is noice too cause it makes things (nicely tied hitch or mech. hitch) tend better / on their own.

and tuts, why are your posts in this thread so random? art positioner? hitch cord loops?
 
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