jomoco
Tree Freak
As soon as I saw a vid of the wraptor powered rope ascending device dragging a climber up a single rope, something started in my head that led to this pathetic self powered contraption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHkcqTY4CM
But like many inventions will do, it led in turn to a little lightbulb in my mind lighting up telling me to look at the objective from an entirely new angle, while saving the essential mechanically advantaged aspects of the system, I repackaged those aspects, shrank it down to a quasi backpack configuration to be worn behind me, with an unimpeded ability to either work or ascend in front of me. You will have a choice of engaging either one or two legs to power up the rope with mechanical advantage, engagement occurs via a simple lever position on either side behind you at waist level.
The paradigm change from having your rope and it's functional support from in front of you, to behind you, will be hard to get accustomed to at first, but once you realise the advantage of all that stuff being behind you and providing an unobstructed work area in front of you?
You'll be hanging face down like a spider, nothing in front of you, everything behind you, with the ability to engage one or both legs at the touch of a lever, and pump them up and down in the air to ascend. Or you can disengage legs, and reach behind your waist to engage the descension lever on the backpack unit.
I see the whole backpack unit weighing less than 20 pounds.
When you think about it, in a traditional climber's rope and saddle configuration for pruning, the actual work you need to accomplish is generally behind you, which is why floating D ring saddle's are so popular for pruners.
Maybe I am crazy. I certainly intend to find out the degree of my madness.
jomoco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHkcqTY4CM
But like many inventions will do, it led in turn to a little lightbulb in my mind lighting up telling me to look at the objective from an entirely new angle, while saving the essential mechanically advantaged aspects of the system, I repackaged those aspects, shrank it down to a quasi backpack configuration to be worn behind me, with an unimpeded ability to either work or ascend in front of me. You will have a choice of engaging either one or two legs to power up the rope with mechanical advantage, engagement occurs via a simple lever position on either side behind you at waist level.
The paradigm change from having your rope and it's functional support from in front of you, to behind you, will be hard to get accustomed to at first, but once you realise the advantage of all that stuff being behind you and providing an unobstructed work area in front of you?
You'll be hanging face down like a spider, nothing in front of you, everything behind you, with the ability to engage one or both legs at the touch of a lever, and pump them up and down in the air to ascend. Or you can disengage legs, and reach behind your waist to engage the descension lever on the backpack unit.
I see the whole backpack unit weighing less than 20 pounds.
When you think about it, in a traditional climber's rope and saddle configuration for pruning, the actual work you need to accomplish is generally behind you, which is why floating D ring saddle's are so popular for pruners.
Maybe I am crazy. I certainly intend to find out the degree of my madness.
jomoco