Rope Wrench - Hitch/Rope compendium.

I think their concern is that each of the sections that are vertical will stretch due to added water weight and the rope on the floor doesn’t. Static ropes need to stretch also, more so with a rigging line, so maybe good for all types.
 
Brocky said:
Static ropes need to stretch also
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Ok. Maybe I'll go ahead and wash the rope I use for hunting today. I've used it for 2 hunting seasons without washing it. It is 9mm sterling HTP and is only 40 feet long. I have a mesh bag and some scent free, dye free detergent. I can lay it out on the garage floor to dry.
 
Thanks for the testing, I thought the smoothness and hardness of the 9mm wouldn’t allow it to get mushy.
 
Nice setup. I don't understand why anyone would run a Wrench with anything but a Michoacan and a shorty tether. A true high performance setup that will give any of the various mechanicals a run for their money, while offering that sweetness that only a hitch is capable of...
 
#163lbs without gear, Blue Moon with 8mm HRC Thermashield in a 4-wrap Michoacan. Shorty tether and a Camp Sphinx pulley which is like a poor man's pinto. I like the Sphinx with the single eye tether because it has narrow side plates and I gain a 1/4" side to side over the pinto which allows me many different carabiner options. This set-up releases quickly and smoothly and goes up great too.
 

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Brocky said:
Does the Wrench bind up the hitch, or does it release without resetting it.
Looks to be a 180 degree Michoacán?
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It does not bind up the hitch at all. I've always tied mine this way so maybe it is reversed from normal! BTW this is one of the eye to eyes that you made and it works great.
 
Batla said:
If I got it right from one of your posts , it should be named a Petroacan.
That's my preferred one too.
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Yes, that’s one name for it, I saw it named the Scaffold hitch before it was introduced here as the Petroacan. 180 degree Michoacán is what I use after realizing that most hitches can be rotated to make a different one. It will get confusing if each of these rotated hitches were given a name.
 
I saw in here somewhere that people were curious to how the knut and michoacan compare performance wise and thought I'd chime in on that. I learned on the knut and used it pretty exclusively. Then I learned more about the michoacan and got to try it out today on a job and I have to say, I am a changed man. It pulls up so easily and I have so much more control on my decent than I did with the knut. The knut would sometimes bind up on me and then sometimes drop me when it releases. There seems to be more friction in that hitch than the michoacan.

I'm using a 26" 8mm HRC with 5 wrap michoacan on Yale Focus/bluemoon with a 7.5" tether on my rope wrench.
 
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