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kludge
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kludge
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Those are the remote retrieval gear. I run the rope through a washer on para-cord which stays attached to the tail of the line (I think that washer might not be visible in the photo). The other prussic is throw line and is attatched a smaller washer which I remove when running the rope through the pulley and use instead of a retreival ball (I think that's the washer you see in the photo). The smaller washer fits through the pulley but catches going through the larger washer and pulls the pulley back through the splice.
Standard retrieval stuff, just home made out of stuff I had on hand.
Quintanana
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What recipe did you use?
Quintanana
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Recent Blaze lanyard for myself plus my first sPlife on Drenaline.
Flying~Squirrel
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I'm starting to get the hang of the easy stuff. Going to re-try a double braid soon. As for the 12 strand, none of the instructions mention that you need to keep the bury really tight as you taper and milk it under. I spiked right where the tail enters the bury before I did the tapering, otherwise the bury starts to pull out and make the brummels look lumpy. Much better results this way.
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eyehearttrees
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Beautiful job!! Did you un-do & rebraid the TEC to get the brummels on both ends? So far as I knew you had to unbraid one side to do that, yours looks so clean it's hard to imagine it was unbraided!!
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My newest -- 7' Ultrasling, made from 17' of 5/8" T-Rex and an xtra pair of Lrg x-rings. 1st pocket is ~10", allowing choking on a 6" diameter spar as the smallest size, then 6" pockets the rest of the 7' length. Tail is modified & shorter than usual, also the rings' legs are on the smaller side at 5" although after seeing & learning more on this I wish they were more like 3"!
Kit is all but done at this point, there's a hank of 1/2"polydyne and a handful of other gear not on the wall here but this is basically my whole rig arsenal ;D
Have about 30' of Ice Tail sitting here looking pretty, gotta make a couple hitch cords (e2e's) but still trying to come up with a better foot-loop/stirrup-sling configuration and hope to figure it out soon so I can make it w/ this thin, light, strong-as-hell cordage
First attempts at splicing an e2e 8mm beeline and a multisling with ring from 22 feet of 5/8 inch tenex tec (i think its tenex tec). Some of the strands on my triple crossover seemed to be displaced a bit. You can see the paler color on some strands. Not sure what caused that.
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Also a first E2E attempt with 1/4" Samson double braid. 20" prusik loop for my 12-strand neck tether. A Schwabish works better for this but this one came out stiffer than I'd prefer at the ends so a 4-wrap prusik it is. I had one made from tied ends that worked great in terms of length but the knots actually blocked the bird of my RR from returning to the upright position so I'd have a good 6" of sit back occasionally. Also I love this green cordage with the XSRE.
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Made a 14' lanyard from Blue Moon especially for my new Hipster. Tight eye for the ISC triple snap. I have a 200' hank of this but rarely need more than 120' so didn't feel too bad hacking off a bit. The jacket is super tight and it was a real battle to get this eye to close all the way but it came out nice.
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Quintanana
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Beautiful lanyard, Delaney. You're not the first person Ive heard say that blue moon has been difficult but so far I haven't had that issue with it...it's actually been one of the nicer ropes to splice for me.
Cereal_Killer
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eyehearttrees
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Wait so you just put that right around your neck? Why not a chest&shoulder "throw over" instead? Something about cordage on the neck that just looks unsafe IMO :/ (Think it was Fiori who has a video on the danger)
That said, I still pull up my prussik (prussikS, usually) by hand....I've got a lil micropulley, if I understand these properly it seems I just need to measure some webbing to make a chest strap and then use the micropulley as both the strap's tether point, and as my hitch's slack-tender (by having it on the line right-beneath my prussik, with the pulley following my chest tether as I ascend a 'ropewalker' system of foot&hand ascension), right?
Blue Moon....similar happened to me a few months ago, had a ~dozen feet removed from my backup climbline, made a second Treesqueeze lanyard with it but now seeing yours, & thinking how I've wanted a longer flipline lately, may "un-fold it" to a regular lanyard!
With @Grafted_In , was fearful of splicing the stuff (was the first splice I'd ever done) but it went smooth I had 1 mistake and then never failed on a splice again until I tried an actual braiding for double-brummelling, it's not as forgiving as bullrope but it's not drenaline/mercury
(did successfully do 3 Mercury splices using modified SPLife Drenaline instructionals, not worth the time it took IMO!)@eyehearttrees I just prefer the smallness and location of the neck tether. I don't like chest harnesses for tending alone because they bunch up clothes and either move around too much or feel too snug. Also, this is just a piece of rope, a piece of hitch cord (any size works) and a small biner so it's cheap and easy. It also never gets tangled or twisted up inside a bag. Just a personal preference. In terms of danger, I understand the possibility of asphyxiation but see the chances of that happening as very low. You can slide the hitch down right off the end of the loop by design and that risk is gone, unless you're unconscious. Again, not impossible but for me low-risk enough for my comfort level.
eyehearttrees
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Ultrasling....A+!! I don't know how I went so long w/o making myself one lol!!
How heavy / what uses do you have in mind for that single-XL Ultra? I always hear "terminal anchorage has to be >1 ring", but it's spoken like a rule when it's really a principle (ie you're not going to rip a 1/2" bullrope by properly rigging 200lbs logs from a single XL anchor)
Speaking of bend radius stuff....gotta say I'm still surprised at how unpopular thimbles are!! Especially for the "tight eye" E2E slings, where you're basically forcing a 180deg bend (oftentimes with relatively "dense" double braids, where the bending would be more hurtful to the cordage than it'd be to, say, hollow braid cordage), surprises the hell out of me that thimbles aren't the norm....presumably it's an aesthetic thing? I dunno, to me they look better with the thimbles in, but that wouldn't matter I'd go w/ whatever was going to be stronger, would love to see some break-test comparisons between what I default to:
($0.50 "lo wall" thimbles),versus what I consider optimal:
(1/2" steel rope thimble, heavy duty type on the ice tail in the foreground and regular variety on the blue moon behind it, these are a buck or a couple bucks)I've heard bend radius proportions from 4X the rope's diameter, to 10X....but, obviously, the difference from 1X to 2X is a bigger difference than 4X to 5X, so in that spirit I've always seen thimbles as being important because they're fighting such extreme bend radiuses(radii? can't spell
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eyehearttrees
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Thanks!! Honestly I was struggling trying to make a chest tether that 'sat right' (without it having to be "suspenders style", any "1 shoulder sling" did, as you say, 'bunch up' and become problematic so I abandoned it and still slide my prussiks up the line by-hand as I swap which foot I'm keeping my weight on
)Thanks again am sold on your style am making one today and configuring the micropulley, am doing 2-system-SRT more and more often so having at least 1 of my hitches self-tending will be nice!! Ice Tail neck sling it is
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Ice Tail (and other aramids/non-poly cordages), when used in Ultrasling configurations, are very weak IE weaker than single-strand strengths.
^paraphrasing a comment from @bonner1040 (on jeffgu's Ice Tail Ultrasling media thread)
Can anyone chime-in with more information? It's not that I'm disagreeing or anything, I'm not really familiar w/ aramids' behavior, **but** I keep thinking of it and all of the reasons it'd be "unsuited for Ultra configurations" seem they'd apply just as much to making E2E slings out of it (which are all I use for lifelines!) The brummelling, hard 90deg bends, hard to picture where&why there's failures on Ultra's that wouldn't be present in the E2E configs :/ (if this is the case, I'm guessing my Ice Tail would be *better* used in a knotted E2E config, instead of the E2E-splice)
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