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13 mm rope can meet most light-duty rigging requirements today. And the device appears it could extend the duty of light rigging. All things considered in this discussion I think it is very good thing to have in your kit.

So true, Butch. After a while, as crew members would come and go, I could usually tell within a couple of days if a new guy was going to make it. Most of them were just passing through to find something better anyway, and really didn't care. And you know? Most of them never found anything...

I swear, Nick, some people just never pick it up. I trained nearly 20 young men during my line clearance days, and a few of them were senior's. Some people just have a block, with knots. I found telling them to just take 3 full wraps around the work and finish with a few half hitches to the...

No. But even a marl will cut a rope on a hard pull. I never broke any rigging up in a tree. Only on the ground. I was always more careful up in the tree.

RB is a damn good knot for light rigging, but I've ended up cutting the rope after a hard pull with them. And then I've had them cut through the eye a few times too. Though only on the ground dragging debris with the truck. To be expected there.

Tying knots is just a matter of feel after a while. Yet some people never pick it up. Most of the rigging guys I know in the woods couldn't tie a simple knot in a piece of rope. About all they know, is how to connect shackles and choker bells. Damn few can splice wire rope. It's getting to...

right or left handed?

Then get her a Shizill for Christmas.

it appears, as a lite rigging tool, it could save wear on rope ends. that one illustration of it choking the limb says a lot. as running bowline's are typically murder on rope. and then some people in this profession couldn't tie a running bowline if their life depended on it.