This is the Akimbo

Wire gate or Locksafe?
Idk if this helps.. but if you happen to have a hitch climber or rook pulley kicking around with your Akimbo, i can fit my wire gate revolver through both... Rook being super tight & HC being loosey goosey.. However i know for a fact i could never fit a locksafe gate through either..

Edit- Wtf did i just reply to.. my response was to something that was right there at the bottom of thread two minutes ago.
 
Jimmycrackcorn said:
Wire gate or Locksafe?
Idk if this helps.. but if you happen to have a hitch climber or rook pulley kicking around with your Akimbo, i can fit my wire gate revolver through both... Rook being super tight & HC being loosey goosey.. However i know for a fact i could never fit a locksafe gate through either..

Edit- Wtf did i just reply to.. my response was to something that was right there at the bottom of thread two minutes ago.
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When I first got my Akimbo, I tried it out several times on a 20' climb on a well-used Yale 11.7 Tropical Ivy rope and found a setting that worked well. Later, I tried it on a brand-new, never-used Yale 11.7 Blue Moon and could not find a setting that worked at all. Well, it's a new rope, and once I use it a few times, it should be workable. Later, I tried the Akimbo again on the original Tropical Ivy rope, now a little more worn, and found the original settings did not work as well. I adjusted it and got it working well again. Then I decided to try it out on the other end of the rope which has rarely been used. The same settings were much too loose there, so I adjusted it and got it working better than ever before. Once I took those same settings back to the worn end of the rope, it would not work at all. At the same time I did those tests, I also tried a Bulldog Bone in parallel tests on the same rope sections, and it worked much better on all those sections of rope without any adjustment. Sometimes, it was a little unpredictable, but always manageable.

I think the Akimbo is a clever, beautiful and elegant device, but the functionality is what is most important. So far, I am finding that it has a limited range of adaptability to varying rope conditions. Yes, it can be adjusted as needed, but when I descend from a little-worn section of rope to a well-worn section, I don't want to stop to adjust it, and I want the device to still be predictable and controllable. I have not put several hours of use on it yet, but right now I am very reluctant to even try it in any situation other than a test climb.

To me, hitch cord and a Rope Wrench are still the standard to beat. Flexible hitches are always going to be more adaptable than metal on rope. I have much more time on hitches, of course, but I have never worried about a hitch becoming uncontrollable as it moves from little-used to well-worn sections of rope. It has a large range of adaptability.

I am wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences with the Akimbo. Or do I just need more time and experience to adapt to it?
 
I would suggest to all you guys :pick a rope, get it set so it’s usable and just run it. After the device gets broke in then you can worry about perfect control, until then it’s going to be finicky and jerky. It’s like a learning experience for you and the Akimbo, after awhile you’ll both settle into a nice pleasing ride.
 
I think a better solution to have the Akimbo self tend on a doubled line, would be to set it up in an O-rig, with a small prussic on the static side of the line attached to the regular tending hook to hold the Akimbo upright. Then you have the advantage also of being able to adjust the Akimbo out to arms length, or bringing it readily back down to near the bridge.
 
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