OAR ascender/descender

[moss]

Surveyor posted in the "Descender" thread about his mechanical hitch replacement called the OAR. Subsequently I had the opportunity to test one of his prototypes. Here's my video report on a "4-arm" version of the OAR:

OAR test run

-moss

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Dang. The video is freezing at 2:12, on Youtube, at the moment.

 

[Adkpk]

Looks good Moss. Is that your pet monkey running the camera? (How did you get that down the rope shot?)

That devise looks pretty handy. Not sure if I want all that metal sticking out of my abdomen. A little gear intensive for my level.

 

[familytree]

Looks good. I would have liked to have seen a better slack tending system built in, that's what the uni currently lacks.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Okay. Now something is really wrong with Youtube tonight.

 

[moss]

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Looks good Moss. Is that your pet monkey running the camera? (How did you get that down the rope shot?)

That devise looks pretty handy. Not sure if I want all that metal sticking out of my abdomen. A little gear intensive for my level.

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Trained squirrel with cam strapped to its back.

Surveyor mentioned in an email that latest versions have shorter pull levers. On a "normal" arb harness the levers point to the right so they're not in the way as much out front.
-moss

 

[surveyor]

Thanks for the video Moss. I thought you might be interested to see this.

Here is a picture of a "micro" OAR, which is 4" over all. I have ascended and descended a short distance with this OAR, but have not done any weight testing (other than my static weight)

 

[moss]

That's a great size for the OAR.
-Andrew

 

[southsoundtree]

Interesting, thanks.