No, I'm not talking about a great wedding. This is my first try at the happy hitch as described in Dirk Lingens' book called "Tree Climber's Knotbook" (ISBN 3-9810417-1-2).
The knot was tied with an Ice brand eye-to-eye on Yale Yellow Jacket. I had excellent control of my rate of descent with just very light pressure on the top of the knot. Seems like a good one.
I'll be trying some others in the book and letting you all know how they worked with my gear.
I'm about 175lbs fully geared up for those concerned about the number of wraps. I managed to get one more wrap in the knot to see what happened and I could barely move the thing!
The knot was tied with an Ice brand eye-to-eye on Yale Yellow Jacket. I had excellent control of my rate of descent with just very light pressure on the top of the knot. Seems like a good one.
I'll be trying some others in the book and letting you all know how they worked with my gear.
I'm about 175lbs fully geared up for those concerned about the number of wraps. I managed to get one more wrap in the knot to see what happened and I could barely move the thing!
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