Speed line. What rope are you using?

Joseph Hodgin

Joseph Hodgin

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First I want say because I slacked and did not post a picture of my rigging bags, I failed to get a free X RING! X is a cool enough guy to hook everybody up with some X swag if they posted on the thread " Show em up what's in your rigging bag" It's too late now I missed out. Sucks, because I check out that thread often.
Moving on,what rope are you using for your speed line? I have been using 200' of 1/2'' arbor plex. I even used 1/2" 3 strand before.
 
I dropped some decent chunks on it with just biners and it hasn't glazed yet. It WILL shake the snot out of you before others will. I found out two weeks ago, and everyone else including the homeowner just happened to be watching for that cut (and only that cut). But yeah, it's a great line, and like you said, Jon, super light.
 
three-strand works for some shock absorption, but needs a more vertical line angle to get the same horizontal distance as a low stretch/ more shocking rope.

Its too bumpy. A braided line with some stretch can be cheap and versatile, and energy absorbent.

If you need a lot of horizontal travel, you may need to catch a heavy piece on an energy absorbing rigging system, then tension a low stretch line, and lower it out.
 
Do you guys just set a line then add external ma, porti, etc. or do you have a prefab set up zip system you pull out and go?

I'm hesitant to set up a system with ma because I've had a couple oppses with mirograbs and eye to eyes slipping also how do you release them once the piece is clear?

I like a porti simple no problem on a 3:1 (so no grabs).

I've only used it a couple simple (smallish) times when porti was busy but I will say a munter through 1 or 2 beast rings can hold a good load simple to tighten and loosen light weight good anchor.
Even just going through the ring singularly can hold small/med pieces.
I'm toying with an idea of a crossover sling. Dead eye loop in the end to hold ma and just under that splice in a lg or x lg xrr just to snub up that 3:1

Does anyone have a light simple system like that?
 
we set up a 3:1 off the speedline anchor with just micro pulleys. like jon said, its nice to be able to "jump" stuff a little bit. one can hold a fair amount of weight on a 3:1 system.
i think a speedline is another rigging style that could benefit from XtremeArborist's THT
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
we set up a 3:1 off the speedline anchor with just micro pulleys. like jon said, its nice to be able to "jump" stuff a little bit. one can hold a fair amount of weight on a 3:1 system.
i think a speedline is another rigging style that could benefit from XtremeArborist's THT
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How o you see the tht being the ticket for speed line?
 
if you run it off the anchor and back to a pulley on the line, so it is part of a 3:1, or simply run the line just thru the THT. i imagine it would help allow on person to hold some good weight going into the speedline, as long as your not trying to have the line real tight i suppose. or use it has on a control line for a controlled speed line. depends on your style i guess
 
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