NAME THAT "SYSTEM".

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

100' Marlow Vega
Petzl Zillon Lanyard
Adjustable bridge
SAKA mini and SAKA foot ascender
New Tribe Onyx Harness
HHx (2)
Multiple configurations using the same rope.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Versatile? Double Stationery Rope System to Stationary Rope System to Moving Rope System to ?....... (you lost me at 5)

Thanks for the feedback.
1. Stationary Rope, I just happen to grab both legs of the line. Notice a few feet from the tie-in my hands are no longer on the retrieval side. Putting a hand around the retrieval side just makes the grip more hand friendly but has not changed the Stationary Rope that is loaded and used.
2. Stationary Rope. It is anchored and out of reach of the climber and would need to be unloaded to be removed. Stationary because it is attached to the earth via the tree.
3. Moving Rope attached to suspension points of the harness. For suspension or potential suspension.
4. Moving Rope attached to the side D's for positioning.
5. Doubled over the branch, not moving. Both sides are anchored to the climber and sharing the load and the descent is being made on each side equally.
6. ...

 

[rope-a-dope]

One rope, two ends, and a bunch of variable friction!
My compliments on the HHx, man its a really nice piece, love the one i got.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

One rope, two ends, and a bunch of variable friction!
My compliments on the HHx, man its a really nice piece, love the one i got.

Well said. The ends of a rope, normally just dragging around, are so much more functional than the middle and who doesn't like being able to choose from 100% to almost 0% friction.

 

[John@TreeXP]

Thanks for the excellent demonstration. Looks like you started on DRT, then switched to SRT, then back and forth between DdRT and SRT. You prove how easy it is to shift from one to the other and sending a second climbing system up to the tie in point is a very cool way to manuver and advance without having to pull up extra gear, or be weighed down with it when ascending.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Thanks for the excellent demonstration. Looks like you started on DRT, then switched to SRT, then back and forth between DdRT and SRT. You prove how easy it is to shift from one to the other and sending a second climbing system up to the tie in point is a very cool way to manuver and advance without having to pull up extra gear, or be weighed down with it when ascending.

Notice I'm not using acronyms and doing my very best to implement "moving" and "stationery". ;-)

 

[ghostice]

Somewhere in there maybe theres the "Son of SPRAT" ?

 

[John@TreeXP]

On your descent it was a stationary system, except when the Alpine Butterfly was moving away from the TIP which changed things to moving rope system. The rope loop with the Alpine Butterfly TIP cinch offers a lot of options.

 

[JeffGu]

My wife solved all these nomenclature problems years ago... I can discuss techniques and hardware, show her equipment and splices, show her pretty pictures of shiny things I'd like to buy... doesn't matter, really, because... as she so eloquently puts it...

"It's all just more rope shit."

 

[evo]

IAJMRS. I it does have a certain ring to it

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

My wife solved all these nomenclature problems years ago... I can discuss techniques and hardware, show her equipment and splices, show her pretty pictures of shiny things I'd like to buy... doesn't matter, really, because... as she so eloquently puts it...

"It's all just more rope shit."

She sounds like a brilliant person, do you think we can get some group therapy.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

IAJMRS. I it does have a certain ring to it

we are down to one now, MRS covers it all perfectly and my opinion.

 

[evo]

we are down to one now, MRS covers it all perfectly and my opinion.

Just wake me up when it’s over, please don’t leave me passed out in the corner of that dive bar again

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Some climb SRS some climb MRS.

Some Rope Shit
More Rope Shit

 

[Burrapeg]

My wife solved all these nomenclature problems years ago... I can discuss techniques and hardware, show her equipment and splices, show her pretty pictures of shiny things I'd like to buy... doesn't matter, really, because... as she so eloquently puts it...

"It's all just more rope shit."

My late wife said something similar years ago when I was opening a package of stuff I had ordered: "What is exciting about that? I can't eat it or wear it."

 

[JeffGu]

"...I can't eat it or wear it."

Was this, by chance, instrumental in her becoming your late wife, or is it just a coincidence? I mean, I understand if you're keeping that part to yourself... there's been many a time I've professed no knowledge of any mounds of dirt in my backyard, on the advice of legal counsel.

 

[Burrapeg]

Was this, by chance, instrumental in her becoming your late wife, or is it just a coincidence? I mean, I understand if you're keeping that part to yourself... there's been many a time I've professed no knowledge of any mounds of dirt in my backyard, on the advice of legal counsel.

Well, I had limited options when it came to any disagreement. Another of her sayings was: "Life just seems easier to handle when you are holding a gun."

 

[Santiago Casanova]

Some climb SRS some climb MRS.

Some Rope Shit
More Rope Shit

Thank you Richard. You solved it. I think these acronyms work best.