I'm sure this has already been addressed about a million times, but I'm having no luck finding anything about it.
I ascend srt to access the canopy, and switch to drt to work.
I have a 1/2" arbormaster and a 7/16" blaze climbing line.
I can srt ascend with the 7/16" blaze using a grigri, a left hand ascender above with a foot loop on the bottom carabiner hole, and a micro pulley with the tail running through in the top carabiner hole. I stand in the foot loop, then advance the line through the grigri with my right hand.
Using the grigri makes an emergency decent easily possible by removing the handled ascender, but the grigri doesn't work on 1/2", causing my problem.
With the 1/2" line I use a distel hitch with 4 wraps, a micropulley underneath as my main attachment, place the left hand ascender above with the same foot loop and put my left foot in, and a pantin on my right foot. This method works the best for me speed-wise, but I'm having problems with the "emergency decent."
To lower myself with the hitch I have to pretty much lift myself up the rope and work the hitch down, after about 15 feet it seizes so tight it's impossible to move.
I'm looking for a cheap solution to ease the decent in my 1/2" setup, or a method of switching over the the 8 while hanging, without having to fork out the cash for a wrench when I'll barely use it!
I ascend srt to access the canopy, and switch to drt to work.
I have a 1/2" arbormaster and a 7/16" blaze climbing line.
I can srt ascend with the 7/16" blaze using a grigri, a left hand ascender above with a foot loop on the bottom carabiner hole, and a micro pulley with the tail running through in the top carabiner hole. I stand in the foot loop, then advance the line through the grigri with my right hand.
Using the grigri makes an emergency decent easily possible by removing the handled ascender, but the grigri doesn't work on 1/2", causing my problem.
With the 1/2" line I use a distel hitch with 4 wraps, a micropulley underneath as my main attachment, place the left hand ascender above with the same foot loop and put my left foot in, and a pantin on my right foot. This method works the best for me speed-wise, but I'm having problems with the "emergency decent."
To lower myself with the hitch I have to pretty much lift myself up the rope and work the hitch down, after about 15 feet it seizes so tight it's impossible to move.
I'm looking for a cheap solution to ease the decent in my 1/2" setup, or a method of switching over the the 8 while hanging, without having to fork out the cash for a wrench when I'll barely use it!