Popular Descending Gear???

[didjon]

Is what you are looking for Tom

Didj

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Yeah!

Can you post the URL for the site?

What name did you find?

 

[didjon]

Yeah this is the link
http://www.acmgguides.com/absolutefm/afmviewfaq.asp?faqid=8

www.acmgguides.com
has a couple of good articles on rap backups quite interesting

Didj

 

[joesoup]

I am a little confused about how you would use that knot and where in the rappelling config. Duhh, please divuldge sir?

 

[didjon]

I would only use it for overhead belay or two man rescue belay its got to much friction to use for rappelling.I only posted it because Tom mentioned it and could not find it at the time.

Didj

 

[NickfromWI]

Immediately when I looked at that knot, I just thought that there's no way that my puny 165lb self could pull hard enough on it to let myself descend down a rope.

Now...if the rope was thin enough....

http://www.yalecordage.com/html/industrial/double_braids.html

(see PoBOn, 3/16")

love
nick

 

[NickfromWI]

Oh, and why is it called "canadian?"

Because it looks funky and is bigger than it needs to be, but actually works better than the original?

/forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif

/forum/images/graemlins/ahhhhh.gif (fearing the repercussions from above)

love
nick

 

[davespencer]

I use it for rappelling all the time. Give it a try. I don't claim to be the first person to ever tie this knot but I came up with it a few years back for just this purpose (rappelling with extra friction and no twist) I started to call it the "canadian italian hitch" as a joke.

Dave

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Well; i guess that is how it should be posted at my sight then!

 

[NickfromWI]

I tried out this here canadian munter. There was a lot of friction. Granted, I was using this while double-crotching. But I did have to literally feed the slack into the knot to allow me to descend.

BUT it did not twist the rope even a tiny bit. I was pretty psyched about that.

love
nick

 

[davespencer]

Another neat thing about this knot is that like the munter it is reversable. try it, its fun to watch, but use a large biner! I agree that this is not a knot for double crotching if you want to go fast. try it on srt.

Dave