Thread: Slack tender ideas?

Hi.

I've got a little red Petzl fixed side pulley that I want to try out as a slack tender on my rope. Any of you chaps any suggestions for the best way to attach this to my harness? The cheeks look a little too wide for a dog lead snap to clip on and obviously an HMS carabiner doesn't fit. So what do you guys use in terms of linkage and prussik combination?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ian.

Look down a couple threads and go through the one titled

"Pulley trick for Old Dirty"

I think you might find some ideas in there

Best of luck

Thats "oldirty"

Whoops.

My apologies go out to Oldirty.

Thanks guys but that's not quite what I had in mind. I was thinking along an alternative carabiner set up or something a little more... by the book, so to speak.
Thanks for the info' though.

I guess I don't understand your question. I have used a Fixe pulley exclusively for years. At first I attached it below my friction hitch with a standard non-locking biner. Now I incorporate it (as pictured in Donnys setup ) on the same 'biner as my friction hitch is attached to. I believe this is the way most people are doing it now.

BTW that set up IS by the book!

So your looking into different types of Carbineers??

Does tis page help you for what you are looking for?
http://www.wesspur.com/Carabiners/carabiners.html

I dont think i am understanding on what you are trying to do.

Originally Posted by OTG BOSTON

I guess I don't understand your question. I have used a Fixe pulley exclusively for years. At first I attached it below my friction hitch with a standard non-locking biner. Now I incorporate it (as pictured in Donnys setup ) on the same 'biner as my friction hitch is attached to. I believe this is the way most people are doing it now.

BTW that set up IS by the book!

100 percent agree...and ya you looking in any of the books...that is standard. I do it they way you explain

Originally Posted by iangoldsmith196

Hi.

I've got a little red Petzl fixed side pulley that I want to try out as a slack tender on my rope. Any of you chaps any suggestions for the best way to attach this to my harness? The cheeks look a little too wide for a dog lead snap to clip on and obviously an HMS carabiner doesn't fit. So what do you guys use in terms of linkage and prussik combination?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ian.

What's your current climbing rig look like? Are you using a Blake's/open hitch or a closed hitch like a VT etc.? The slack tender setup is different depending on what you're climbing on.
-moss

I think I can see what's going on in the photos that you suggested but I can't see clearly how the snap etc are all rigged up.

I've never used a pulley as a slack tender (you'd never guess!) and my sole source of info' is Jepson's Climber's Companion. In it his snap goes through both cheeks of the pulley, but my Petzl's fixed sides are too wide to get the snap through. It'd only go through one side. I think I've seen it used with a D shaped carabiner and so I'm wondering if this is a standard way to attach it to the harness. I also think I've seen it used with a valdotain tresse and like the look of that.

Is there a type of 'biner that will pass through the side holes of the pulley easily? i.e. a D shaped. I use Gecko and Mongoose HMS carabiners and these wont fit smoothly enough at all.

Sorry to test your patience chaps, but my sole source of climbing info' (humanly speaking) is a sage-like and very efficient pro' who uses the oldest and simplest kit imagineable.

Your wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

A small keychain caribiner works good with that pulley.

Originally Posted by OTG BOSTON

Thats "oldirty"

thank you very much O.


i need a friction saver for saturday man. maybe bring two, terry coming along as well i think.

see ya saturday.



oldirty

I use one for my VT hitch by tieing one end to the beckette.

That is the plate that holds the cheekplates together.



I dropped a number of standard pullies while retieing in the tree, this way the thing is never loose in my hands.

If you are on a blakes or such, then there are better pullies out there for tending slack.

Originally Posted by oldirty

thank you very much O.


i need a friction saver for saturday man. maybe bring two, terry coming along as well i think.

see ya saturday.



oldirty

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET! the more buzzards the better

Thanks John Paul.

Any idea how long the double ended friction cord needs to be to tie the VT?

Thanks.

Ian.