Quickie killer?

Shadowscape · Mar 13, 2023

Another thing to carry up on your harness. Just what we need. If I can't operate it with my gloves on, I will take one off. Seems a lot easier than fumbling about for a gizmo to do it for me. Too much stuff already.

Barc Buster · Mar 13, 2023

Shadowscape said:
Another thing to carry up on your harness. Just what we need. If I can't operate it with my gloves on, I will take one off. Seems a lot easier than fumbling about for a gizmo to do it for me. Too much stuff already.

Most gloves can be upgraded to the booger picker model fairly easy.‍

Mowerr · Mar 13, 2023

There's many other sheaves that'll fit on the quickie. For example that plastic one petzl makes and I think a lot of the cmi micro pulleys dotoo.

Phil · Mar 13, 2023

treebing said:
One of the greatest things about the quickie from my point of view is how easy they are to lose! Lol.

My little hack to this is to slip a plastic rope thimble over the quickie. Its hi vis, makes the quickie easier to hold when installing, won't slip off the shackle portion, and I can snug the eye on the alpine in the thimble which prevents the shackle from being able to reorient inside the alpine if some slack is introduced from a distance.

Muggs · Mar 13, 2023

Phil said:
My little hack to this is to slip a plastic rope thimble over the quickie. Its hi vis, makes the quickie easier to hold when installing, won't slip off the shackle portion, and I can snug the eye on the alpine in the thimble which prevents the shackle from being able to reorient inside the alpine if some slack is introduced from a distance.

Is the thimble a tight fit on the flare of the quickie? Is that how it keeps it from rotating? I like that a lot

Muggs · Mar 13, 2023

rico · Mar 13, 2023

Credit where credit is due folks. I commend ISC on their quick decision in recalling this product.

treebing · Mar 13, 2023

I still want mine though. I'm kind of irritated that I probably won't even get a chance to get one.

Barc Buster · Mar 13, 2023

treebing said:
I still want mine though. I'm kind of irritated that I probably won't even get a chance to get one.

You can have mine

Shadowscape · Mar 13, 2023

treebing said:
I still want mine though. I'm kind of irritated that I probably won't even get a chance to get one.

You can have mine, but it is broken. Probably won't be able to get a replacement for it either.

Oh well, all in the name of science. It was worth it.

rico · Mar 13, 2023

treebing said:
I still want mine though. I'm kind of irritated that I probably won't even get a chance to get one.

A real bummer Kev, but I think I know someone who could probably get you a smokin’ deal on shiny new milled quickie.

treebing · Mar 13, 2023

I feel like they should just recall the instructions. Nothing wrong with the ultralink as a perfectly good tool for easy opening applications. if they were to just send a new set of instructions minus the anchoring pictures it would be fine. Like where a single lock carabiner is fine... just reset the expectation of use instead of pulling all the way out.

Anyway, I'll trade someone a couple quickies for one. DM me.

Phil · Mar 13, 2023

Muggs said:
Is the thimble a tight fit on the flare of the quickie? Is that how it keeps it from rotating? I like that a lot

Yes. It takes a bit of prying to get the thimble over the flared end of the shackle when installing it but these thimbles have slits. Once on, the thimble can slide from one eye to the other but won't come off unless you force it. another little bonus, these thimbles fit perfectly in the lower Ds of the treemotion harness...the evo anyways. This is where I store it. Does not seem to interfere with my lanyard when using the lower Ds for that either. I would attach my lanyard hardware above the thimble. Ignore the carabiner below it. I just stashed an extra there temporarily.

Edit: This is for the Notch Quickie. I do not have a milled singing tree one so can't speak to the thimble/shackle interface on that. I would imagine its similar though.

Boomslang · Mar 13, 2023

Excellent. Mine just arrived sans instruction booklet. That means I can use it for anything I want without indemnity, right?

Muggs · Mar 13, 2023

Phil said:
Yes. It takes a bit of prying to get the thimble over the flared end of the shackle when installing it but these thimbles have slits. Once on, the thimble can slide from one eye to the other but won't come off unless you force it. another little bonus, these thimbles fit perfectly in the lower Ds of the treemotion harness...the evo anyways. This is where I store it. Does not seem to interfere with my lanyard when using the lower Ds for that either. I would attach my lanyard hardware above the thimble. Ignore the carabiner below it. I just stashed an extra there temporarily.

Brilliant, I'm gonna try that, thank you

Phil · Mar 13, 2023

Muggs said:
Brilliant, I'm gonna try that, thank you

Awesome. I can proudly say this is a Phil Prohaska original hack. I made an edit above about this working with the notch quickie. I never tried it with the milled singing tree one but I would imagine they are similar enough it will likely work. Don't have one so can't say for sure though. Please share your thoughts once you give it a run.

Shadowscape · Mar 13, 2023

I would like to give a shout out to @Njdelaney for posting his initial review of the UltraLink for us. His one handed opening scared me enough to experiment further. I don't know how much my sending ISC the videos we made helped in causing this recall, but I'm sure it didn't hurt either. We may have saved a life.
For those of you that seem a bit pissy you didn't get one... I just don't feel bad for some reason. They will no doubt create a fix and you will be able to get one then. One that won't kill you.

Lignotuber · Mar 13, 2023

Phil said:
My little hack to this is to slip a plastic rope thimble over the quickie. Its hi vis, makes the quickie easier to hold when installing, won't slip off the shackle portion, and I can snug the eye on the alpine in the thimble which prevents the shackle from being able to reorient inside the alpine if some slack is introduced from a distance.

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This is pretty much the way I was "going" to use mine, nice to have centering. Curious to see how they improve the design, definitely some room for that.