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Besides I need a injection pump for my billy goat...dodge RAM that is more important a ride than a wraptor ride to me right now.
rope walking rocks!
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Roger_Barnett
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- Seattle, in the PNWet
No worries...I wasn't trying to be a stuck up rich jerk....
I'm just an old man who has been climbing for 35 years....and am glad I sprung for the easy way up. Let's me get to the real work and not be tired.
I'm just an old man who has been climbing for 35 years....and am glad I sprung for the easy way up. Let's me get to the real work and not be tired.
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- walker louisiana
I figured that roger, and I think that's awesome you still are climbing. I didn't take you the wrong way.
treebing
Been here much more than a while
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- Detroit, Mi.
so that was Scott Sharpe, I had seen that video before and was inspired. Terrible loss. I had bought a length of bungee cord to try and replicate that system but quickly got knotted and tangled up.
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- walker louisiana
Hey Kevin are there things to look out for in your system? I haven't seen anything as of yet to worry about, but you have been climbing the system for two years, and you must have come across stuff to be on the lookout for.
treebing
Been here much more than a while
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- Detroit, Mi.
I use a vt and sometimes while working its nice to have a loose VT but while ascending it is very important to have a more conservative knot. you said you use a distel which should be good. I just started experimenting with an extra robot attached directly to the shackle on the bridge of my butterfly, this allows me to quickly descend on my hitch without installing the robot above. it is more of an emergency bailout technique than anything else. I am still trying to decide if it gets in the way or not. The only other way to get down real fast while in ascent mode is to kind of footlock the rope for friction so you can work the hitch down which is not ideal.
I have felt very secure on this system for the most part... I do not think it is necessary but I have been kind of trying to keep more than one attachment to the rope at all times, so I am not ever just on my hitch. I think it is a good practice, but I have footlocked for so many years with only a hitch so I am comfortable with only a cord attaching me to the rope.
I have felt very secure on this system for the most part... I do not think it is necessary but I have been kind of trying to keep more than one attachment to the rope at all times, so I am not ever just on my hitch. I think it is a good practice, but I have footlocked for so many years with only a hitch so I am comfortable with only a cord attaching me to the rope.
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- walker louisiana
I am fine with just my hitch, but while working it is too gripy for me. With the robot on top of my hitch it is like I am doubled roped. I just practiced a few more times, and I wish I would have learned to climb SRT from the beginning. I learned about climbing trees for a living doing line work. Even my wife thinks I am obsessed with tree climbing. Kevin, I wish I could get some more of your knowledge of the way you SRT, but I am on the way. I have studied many different ways of climbing, and this seems to be the most no nonsense no extra junk kind of way to go.
moss
Been here much more than a while
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- Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S.
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I use the original fate revolver setup, no Kong gear for me! I think the ascent system we use is a frog walker or tree frog not a rope walker setup.
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Between caving, big wall, tree and other vertical disciplines that use SRT there are different names for same technique and the same names for configurations that are different. Confused yet?
The way I look at it, any SRT system that allows you to "walk" up the rope is a ropewalker. By walk up the rope I mean both of your feet are engaged in the system to provide power and move independently, one foot moves up past the other per push in a continuous walking motion.
So I call a Tree Frog (or similar systems with one foot in a rope clamp and the other foot in a footloop from an upper ascender) a rope walker since it meets the above criteria.
-moss
I use the original fate revolver setup, no Kong gear for me! I think the ascent system we use is a frog walker or tree frog not a rope walker setup.
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Between caving, big wall, tree and other vertical disciplines that use SRT there are different names for same technique and the same names for configurations that are different. Confused yet?
The way I look at it, any SRT system that allows you to "walk" up the rope is a ropewalker. By walk up the rope I mean both of your feet are engaged in the system to provide power and move independently, one foot moves up past the other per push in a continuous walking motion.
So I call a Tree Frog (or similar systems with one foot in a rope clamp and the other foot in a footloop from an upper ascender) a rope walker since it meets the above criteria.
-moss
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- Devonport Tassie
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so that was Scott Sharpe, I had seen that video before and was inspired. Terrible loss. I had bought a length of bungee cord to try and replicate that system but quickly got knotted and tangled up.
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Hey Treebing Yep that was Scott. Miss him terribly....too much sometimes...its hard to talk about..he was a great mate!!!!
Some thing he helped with and relates to the topic
so that was Scott Sharpe, I had seen that video before and was inspired. Terrible loss. I had bought a length of bungee cord to try and replicate that system but quickly got knotted and tangled up.
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Hey Treebing Yep that was Scott. Miss him terribly....too much sometimes...its hard to talk about..he was a great mate!!!!
Some thing he helped with and relates to the topic
countryboypa31
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- PA
That was a great article. Covered everything! Thanks for sharing it.
treebing
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- Detroit, Mi.
I like the section on angles and how you show how you can achieve better working positions by playing with redirects and angles. very informative.
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- walker louisiana
Where are these references that yall are talking about? I like to read and learn about ANYTHING I can about climbing.....I am obsessed....climbing is MY drug!
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- walker louisiana
Oops found the attachment. Thanks.
Crazy_Jimmy
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- Texas
Pace yourself Dan.
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- walker louisiana
I will jimmy promise. Ive been climbing for a while, and I already know what a fall can do to you first hand. I go low and slow now with all my new SRT stuff. Its so great to learn new things, and talk to people that share my passion.
