Playing with rope

pantheraba

pantheraba

After seeing the Masters at the ITCC last August and how they float from limb to limb, I would love to have a tree that would allow that kind of play. I'm going to keep my eyes open and see if I can play that game, too.

What do you guys do with ropes that is related to climbing but not necessarily about carrying a saw when you do it...maybe it helps keep you in shape or increases your skills..or is just plain fun. Maybe this should be a rec. thread...

I have some ropes strung in my warehouse that let me fastrope, traverse and generally make movement easier when moving around up on the tops of big shelving/pallet stacking units.

Here are some fastroping pictures where someone was trying it for the first time.
 

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This is a swing that I built for a client. When I'm in Mpls. for the ISA conference I'm going to get hold of her and give the swing a test.
 

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Pantheraba, a grown up jungle gym! cool. I have worked a few jobs that could have used half that much rope for a safety line . building a warehouse and working in one.
 
What the heck is fastroping?
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Im currently building my shop with plans for a rock wall on 1 side and the ceiling. Ill have to add this fast roping.Someday when I build a house there I want to installa zip line from the house to the shop... about 800' long /forum/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif but thats down the road.
 
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Im currently building my shop with plans for a rock wall on 1 side and the ceiling. Ill have to add this fast roping.Someday when I build a house there I want to installa zip line from the house to the shop... about 800' long /forum/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif but thats down the road.

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Man, are we ever on the same wavelength! That zip line would be a great idea. Lots of folks think of stuff but don't ever get around to it. I say, go for it.

My daughter's dream house (she says) will have an indoor pool (big) with a walkway around it on the next level...complete with ropes to swing out and drop in, or zip, or to just plain dive into...plus rockwalls, etc. for play/training.

She wants to get rich and build it so that I am not too old to enjoy playing, too. Now, THAT'S a daughter!!

I'll try to get some video of fastroping...it's like rappelling but just you and the rope...and a pair of gloves. /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I am planning on 1 1/2 to 2 years to start the hous. I have some awesome ideas for a post and beam. Cutting my own logs. I already have a base driveway to it now I just need dinero$$All in good time though.
 
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What do you guys do with ropes that is related to climbing ...maybe it helps keep you in shape or increases your skills..or is just plain fun.

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If you're practicing any SRT with mechanical ascenders, then you might do what we cavers and cave rescue people do: practice pickoffs (see photo of a 140 lb woman picking off a 250 lb man from the same rope), or set up multiple vertical ropes with rebelays (midspan anchor points with drop loops) and traverse ropes - for moving past anchors and knots, moving from one rope to another, going from vertical to horizontal, converting repeatedly from ascent to rappel and back, etc.

Fun and great practice. Also useful to know how to do a one-on-one rescue.

- Robert
 

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See attachment for a graphic of rebelay and deviation on a rappel rope.
 

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Cool stuff. Did the woman rescuing the victim rappel down or ascend up?

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Ascended.

A requirement for National Cave Rescue Commission Level 2 training (each level is a week-long intensive) is to ascend a rope with an unconscious victim hanging on it, get up past the victim, rig a system to unweight the victim using your body weight, convert to rappel, lower the victim onto your rappel device, and then descend with the victim.

And you're timed.

- Robert
 
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I like that! Did she use an ascender, pulley and foot loop or other method to transfer?

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She's a little hot shot. If I remember right, she placed an ascender above on the rope with a carbiner as a "pulley", clipped one end of a looped cord to his harness, ran it through the carabiner, pulled down hard on the other end and at the same time lifted under his butt with her thighs (kind of a rocking back movement), and then clipped his "cow's tail" (short sling with biner) into the ascender to hold him in the raised position.

Then she would have to convert to rappel and tie off, clip his harness into her rappel device, remove the rope from his chest ascender, again raise and lower the victim to transfer his weight to the rappel device, unlock and descend. All this in about 5 minutes.
 
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