What the bananas

I opted for the normal swing arm and use a dmm ceros with captive bar. I have a rubber keeper to separate a hardware store eye n eye swivel. The swivel clips to my chest harness.
 

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Bart_ said:
IMO the third, but original, class of multicenders is the unicender/zigzag where a miniature articulating rack is implemented with an initial force provided by the binding of the the top link - sort of a mini RW/bird component.

I'm not sure where to stick in ropejack and grigri is sort of there too. Bendy-pinch units.

HH is a pure pinch unit with associated advantages over bend units. Rope tail loading not-effect main one. IMO
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Neither the rope runner or TAZ are affected by rope weight. They both work great on a completely taught line.
 
FTC Freexion is finally available for sale, about 270 USD at Maple Leaf Ropes, shipping in early February. Its features seem tailor-made for production climbing. Along with the cam-pinched bollard for minimal drag while ascending it has three friction settings which don't necessitate opening the device on the climbing line to change, to be done on the fly while climbing as conditions warrant.
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They even show a rescue technique they came up with for carrying two climbers on the same device, so clearly climber weight isn't a problem with the adjustable friction. Any climbers too big to take advantage of the apex (WLL 120kg) may have more luck with this.
They use a Camp sphinx for this but looks like it would work with a pinto just the same
 
bobs yeruncle said:
FTC Freexion is finally available for sale, about 270 USD at Maple Leaf Ropes, shipping in early February. Its features seem tailor-made for production climbing. Along with the cam-pinched bollard for minimal drag while ascending it has three friction settings which don't necessitate opening the device on the climbing line to change, to be done on the fly while climbing as conditions warrant.
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They even show a rescue technique they came up with for carrying two climbers on the same device, so clearly climber weight isn't a problem with the adjustable friction. Any climbers too big to take advantage of the apex (WLL 120kg) may have more luck with this.
They use a Camp sphinx for this but looks like it would work with a pinto just the same
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Is there a promo video showing someone actually climbing and navigating up and down in a tree for work? They don't show it tending slack and then re-engaging.
 
Phil said:
Is there a promo video showing someone actually climbing and navigating up and down in a tree for work? They don't show it tending slack and then re-engaging.
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Nothing yet unfortunately, not even on the ascending vid which only shows it dragging up the rope. Only Giorgio's videos which show him climbing on prototypes over the last ten years
 
I find it an odd decision to have a marketing video for a tree climbing device showing a rappel rescue on a steel frame tower before they highlight it being used to do tree work. Maybe I'm mistaken that it's designed to be a tree climbing friction device though.
 
I don't want to be that guy, but it is used and configured as a rope wrench. I'll grant that the bollards are unique and well done according to the performance in the videos. Slick unit. :)
 
I don't see it being preferable to a wrench except that pin/bollard mechanism. If I could just buy a couple of those and make it fit a zk2, I'd be happy as a clam.
 
I had a little side project where I was making the RW so it didn't drag during limb walking but this guy did the opposite by making his RW capable of super drag i.e. two guys on a single hitch. Bit of an unusual capability/requirement to my mind as I figure the standard RW geometry is roughly adhered to by most copies and was optimized by Kevin for general performance.
 
Speaking of what the bananas! Wasn’t sure where to put this rant , but what the bananas made me think of it when I see climbers recently on popular social media site, setting up over elaborate systems to do such simple moves up in the tree. Mostly glamorizing unnecessary gear for a picture I can only imagine, that was a time waste on a real production tree job to set up and retrieve when the tree gave them evevything they could’ve ever wanted and more than they ever realize by not utilizing what already there the tree itself.. 90 percent natural redirects and predictable simple retrievals with just one climb line! Learn how to climb the gosh damn tree like a monkey with no rope then get up there with one and I’ll even give ya a super slick multicender and footie and lanyard . Now show me what you can do !!
 
I always had a mixed reaction to those types of videos. Part of me drooled over all the shiny googa's but part of me said that guy's got 3x the amount of climbing gear as me. Frugality usually wins, but I've been lured in a few times.

Sometimes stub tied double whip for the win;)
 
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