Bridge lengths

[Wwallace52590]

So I’m pretty new to climbing don’t have a year of experience yet, I’ve only climbed DRT/Mrs so far, next big job I do I plan on buying a rope wrench tho. Also don’t have much experience working on a spar.

So I run a short bridge because I like having room over my system to take long pulls if that make sense, also seems like a short bridge would be important for accessing SRS/SRT as well as for spar work, I see a couple of harnesses eve have dedicated SRT bridges. Are there any options like that for other harnesses? I run a monkey beaver OG harness, and would like an even tighter bridge specifically for accending sometimes but it I make my rope bridge any shorter I’ll have a hard time getting into it. Right now I have 2 bridges but they are the same length. What are advantages to a longer bridge? I feel like most guys I see online have very long bridges which on a spar doesn’t seem like would be doing anything until your tie in is basically above their head.

 

[SeanKroll]

You might like the O-rig system ( maybe O-Ring) It moves your climbing system away a bit, while being in reach.

I've never used it. I'm almost all Srt.


The first Rope Wrench was a box- end wrench fir a minute, then a piece of wood. My first Wrench was a hickory hammer handle with a 45⁰ hole in one end for the rope, with a tether on the other end. 16-17 years ago.

There are many DIY Wrench designs, some midline attachable, fwiw.

 

[friedrich]

a longer bridge will be more comfortable, maybe try oe longer and one shorter bridge?