Unicender-Slack tender for limb walks

Really though has anyone tried a pulley to a side D ring? Your maybe attached to the outside leg loop of the saddle?


Or even better!!!!! How about a pantin on your leg loop or around knee? After limb walk you could put rope in the pantin and as you walk back it will tend rope for you?

so this use of logic sounds like nails to a chalk board????
As you extend your leg while walking it will pull the slack through uni at bridge? Pulley on side d allows you to pull slack through while one hand to hold for balance?


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Ed, come up with a better idea or explain to me how it's unsafe. Let me guess "a branch could grab the daisy and choke you"

Wrong

I daisy chain an elastic cord that will break way before 25 pounds so if a branch does get in there then in good to go

Like I said before, not an ideal set up but it worked well for me.

You've offically been added again to the ignore list ed. I've decided that you really have nothing to teach. Keep safe out there partner, hope I don't "read about you in the funny papers"

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Ignore all ya want. It only takes 5 lbs of pressure to crush your wind pipe. Maybe this should be move to a new thread. Nothing should ever be tied to your climbing system and then wrapped around your neck.
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Or you could put a revolver on ur d ring or leg loop.

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Good one, I keep forgetting about them. I don't care for them that much, is why.
 
Having a redi like you folks have suggested works in some/most applications.

The piggyback [PB] 2:1 really would shine in those limbwalks where you need to have weight on your rope, pushing back with your legs and trying to maintain balance. With the PB the climber can lift themselves while still pushing against the rope with their legs. I can think of plenty of times out at the branch tips of down drooping American elms where I did NOT want any slack in my rope.

Bowlegs said that he uses a Ropeman up top where I put the lineman's loop. He said that the Uni pushes it up when he isn't using it and the second rope, or tail, would stay rigged for the next limbwalk. I haven't tried this yet myself.
 
tom how about a micro pulley/ or two? one at your lineman knot although i think an alpine butter fly would be better with a locking krab and the bight of your rope. on your saddle a micro pulley just to tail your rope into your hybid system and to keep the rope in reach. no worries then work it like a ddbl. on your way back pulling the tail will advance the uni. when are you going to send one of those to memphis for me to play with?
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Familytree, could you draw something or post a picture, I'm intrigued?

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I'll take some pics tomorrow. I like using the bungie stuff cause I know it'll break if too much presure is added.

The nice thing is that it's VERY difficult to get strangled by the bungie because it raps around the back of the neck only and there's no way I can think of for it to rap around your wind pipe.

Not the greatest solution, it would be nice to have a pulley instead but I'm not that mechanically inclined.

I've got a friend engineering (or trying to at least) me another lower "L" for the bottom with a pulley built into it. Hope I'm not voiding any warrenties by popping the master link.
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Because that is too easy tom and my buddy likes to make this stuff for me. He asked if he could make me a whole new uni but with titanium.... I said no. Wouldn't want to break any patent pending rules and I don't know how well titanium would hold up to a dirty rope rubbing it

Maybe I'll change my mind in a week or so but I don't want to have to give up the uni for him to model the other one
 
Family Tree you got me thinking and I have been climbing with this for a few days. Tibloc for top ascender, Uni in the middle and pantin and loop at the bottom and it is very light-weight and gets rid of (most importantly for me) the secur.
I like it so far, it is REALLY light-weight for an SRT system and you can, if you want, charge up the rope!
 

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Hawks,

Have you used the Tibloc much?

When it first came out I used it on some KMIII and it really picked the sheath. After a couple of days of climbing it looked like it had gone over barb wire. Since then the Tibloc has been rattling around in the bottom of my 'ascenders' bucket with a couple of unused figure eights.

Do you have the shackle then biner on the top of the Uni to keep things aligned and fair? Why not just clip into the top loop of the Uni?

PS...What's the story of the dome in your avatar?
 
Tom, the shackle is there just as you say to keep things fair. My ice climber friends rated the tibloc a few years back and I was struck by the design sense, I actually purchased mine two weeks ago in Atlanta with Peter Jenkins at the end of my facilitators course, it is new in body but not in mind!
The picture is a geodesic sphere inspired by Buckminster Fuller. I make paper sculpture too, I liked the picture.
 
I should have said that I purchased this while with Peter as I was helping him set-up his Unicender and we went out to buy him a croll......another Uni-Flyer.
 
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