New Ascender from Reg Coates

Bart_ said:
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Reg, if you read this, nice mill-drill-lathe.
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Yeah, but the real kicker is the table it is sitting on.

As for the device: he showed the wire lock pin that he tested for chest harness attachment, but it caught on the rear cam. Wouldn't that be easily solved by either using a pin with the wire being too short to go over the came or with one too long to catch? If the holes are there, I assume users will quickly come up with a good option.

(I know....I could go design my own device, and figure that out!)
 
Doesn't it twig your creativity to foray into real problems and solutions? I had a devil of a time incorporating a traditional tending pulley at the bottom one time. You end up with 'well it works" but medium satisfaction. I remember one of Jaime's explanations about cam action, defaults to safe behaviour and thought to myself what a lot of detail, but the devil's in the details. And safety tops all. Remember the discovery of floppy wrench tethers malfunctioning? It's all very interesting.
 
Reg just put out a video on the grapple, and as someone just across the water from him climbing about the same trees, the design and techniques make a ton of sense to me. (as a user of first a shitty ebay grapple and currently a Captain Hook)

 
Looks like a great design. The flat tether and flat spine of the hook make it less prone to orienting the wrong way at the last second when you're trying to pull it out, and it seems like it will be harder to get it stuck around a limb that's just the wrong size, as I've done a couple times with the DMM hook.
 
27RMT0N said:
Reg just put out a video on the grapple, and as someone just across the water from him climbing about the same trees, the design and techniques make a ton of sense to me. (as a user of first a shitty ebay grapple and currently a Captain Hook)

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Ordered one today with a 20% off coupon.
 
Matias said:
was that the lil yellow?
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Nope, that was a new tribe traverse thing.
There were 2 different offerings well before the hook style grapples. One had three red floppy arms on a white body.
Then I rock exotica had one that was ungodly expensive but the cool thing is it had a screw which would lock the arms outward. More so all for conifers where you could toss over your target limb and snag the underside of the whorl below.
Then the tube hook style came out.
In some of reg’s videos when he came over from England to the NW, he used the floppy armed one. I think he liked the design hybridized it as a single hook.
 
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