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rugger01

rugger01

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im thinkin about getting a swivel to play around with. im thinkin of usin it on my bridge as a centeral attachment. @ tci the tree maginers pointed out to me that not all swivels are rated to be loaded on their side. Give me some feed back about swivels if you can. Do you use one? for what? what kind? problems? load ratings and acceptable loading axis?
cheers tex
 
ha, ive heard some bad things about these swivels, mostly that its a nice idea but your tip will have to have a swivel as well, otherwise its still going to twist up just at a high point that will eventually run down the rope to you

as far as loading these mamas i never cared enough to look because of the problem i listed above
 
one thing that happens with a swivel is that everything in your bridge area moves 1 carabiner further away from your anchor point. when I climbed with a Blakes/split-tail I used the Petzl swivel all the time...

peace,

matthew
 
I've been using a petzl large swivel right on the bridge of my dragonfly II for a year now. I love it. Its simple and it reduces much of the tangle. plus the two biners move as a unit on the bridge. As far as side loading, i don't see how that could happen with this sort of setup...?
 

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I've heard some bad things about those swivels, but that set-up looks pretty sweet. Do you ever have the problem of your hitch swivelling to the opposite side of you?
 
The hitch will move around some, but its rarely a problem. there have to be a lot of twists in the rope to generate enough force that the swivel won't pull around to where i want it.

So what bad things have folks heard about these?
 
I have found that if you twist your rope, you twist your rope...swivel or not.

The problem is not with the swivel, its with the fact that as we twist ourselves around we drag the tail with us. If we were to twist around our tail too then the swivel would perform as advertised.

I use the lock-jack so what I like about the swivel is that I can just grab the LJ and ropes and twist it into a convenient position and it will stay relatively there.

More importantly, rather than being an anti-twisted line device, it serves as a connecter alignment device. No (or minimized) twist loading on biners or other hardware.
 
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