Iustinian
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For years we've been using a simple tool in our climbing system which makes ascending easier. It's not a new idea, imo, but it is much simpler than the tools other people have designed to eliminate the slack generated when ascending on a system using eye to eye's. It takes about $10 worth of materials and about 15 minutes to make one of these things if you are skilled at splicing. You could use tenex (which is very very very easy to splice, but I personally dont like using tenex in any part of a climbing system because it picks so easily -- plus it doesnt stand up under friction, but in this application that is irrelevant since this tool should not ever see any friction, just saying)
The tool is very very simple -- a short peice of velocity with a ring spliced into one end, and an eye splice on the other end for clipping a carabiner through. It can be used in a system which incorporates either the hitch climber pulley OR any other micro pulley like the older ones from cmi and isc.
To secure the friction hitch close to the climber, we've used any carabiner to clip it in close. Personally, I prefer to flip in with a work positioning lanyard and remove it from my system when I'm done ascending.
[video=youtube_share;jUA12hLIz1c]http://youtu.be/jUA12hLIz1c[/video]
The tool is very very simple -- a short peice of velocity with a ring spliced into one end, and an eye splice on the other end for clipping a carabiner through. It can be used in a system which incorporates either the hitch climber pulley OR any other micro pulley like the older ones from cmi and isc.
To secure the friction hitch close to the climber, we've used any carabiner to clip it in close. Personally, I prefer to flip in with a work positioning lanyard and remove it from my system when I'm done ascending.
[video=youtube_share;jUA12hLIz1c]http://youtu.be/jUA12hLIz1c[/video]