NickfromWI
King of Splices
I have a question about rigging something with this. Is there someone here that has one and can check a couple things out for me so I know if I should buy one...
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Do you own this pulley...
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I have a question about rigging something with this. Is there someone here that has one and can check a couple things out for me so I know if I should buy one...
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emr
Cheesehead Treehouser
I have one..... fire away with any questions. If you want to buy one, let me know too. I might be able to sell you ours or we can work out a trade. Or at the very least I can send it to you for a while to play with. I picked it up to run my climbing line through off of my hand ascender so I could work DDRT of off SRT. It works great for that with the exception that you cant fit an eye splice through it. Actually on second thought, it may fit a regular splice.... right now I have Fly and it wont fit that splice. I will try putting a Blaze splice though it on Monday and report back.
NickfromWI
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rangerdanger
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Wow Nick, what do you plan to do with that set up?
NickfromWI
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Of course, I'd still want to have a rope going through the pulley, too.
If you aren't really using it- we could set up a trade...maybe you could send it over, i see if it works for what i want it for, then either send you rope for it, or send the pulley back if it doesn't work...
thanks for checking, though!!!
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If you aren't really using it- we could set up a trade...maybe you could send it over, i see if it works for what i want it for, then either send you rope for it, or send the pulley back if it doesn't work...
thanks for checking, though!!!
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nick
NickfromWI
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http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=12858
You can see a pic of the setup on page 2 of that thread. Any thoughts?
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brendonv
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I really don't understand the point of all that mess?
Old Monkey
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I think he's working on a way to help someone with less upper body strength get in the tree doing a Ddrt off an Srt if I understand it. Sort of a 3:1 advantage tie in.
NickfromWI
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Darin's got it. Lemme see if I can explain what I have in mind at this stage:
1. Girth hitch webbing to limb, clip the top (ball lock) 'biner to webbing.
2. Spliced blaze gets clipped to bottom (screw locker) biner
3. Blaze comes down to climber, through a pulley on the harness, back up to the top pulley, through it then back down to the climber.
4. With a split tail, tie a blakes hitch to that last tail of rope.
This allows a weak, overweight, elderly (etc) climber to climb along their normal-strengthed friends.
I've tried both the hitch climber and Mickey mouse up top. They work, but the rope crosses over itself in this setup. When the climber gets up to the top the blakes occasionally gets jammed up under the cross and causes problem for the descent.
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1. Girth hitch webbing to limb, clip the top (ball lock) 'biner to webbing.
2. Spliced blaze gets clipped to bottom (screw locker) biner
3. Blaze comes down to climber, through a pulley on the harness, back up to the top pulley, through it then back down to the climber.
4. With a split tail, tie a blakes hitch to that last tail of rope.
This allows a weak, overweight, elderly (etc) climber to climb along their normal-strengthed friends.
I've tried both the hitch climber and Mickey mouse up top. They work, but the rope crosses over itself in this setup. When the climber gets up to the top the blakes occasionally gets jammed up under the cross and causes problem for the descent.
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Nick.. Look at your other thread ....
emr
Cheesehead Treehouser
Sorry Nick. It doesnt work. Let me know if you still want to trade..... since I really dont want this pulley anymore and its still basiclly brand new.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Would there be a problem with this? I have used only one side before without issues
NickfromWI
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That would work- and I have similar pulleys, but if I'm going to do it, I wanna do it right!
Emr: it's gotta work! I made it work just fine with the pictures!
what is the part that doesn't work? Two carabiners at the same time or flipping the bottom carabiner to fit the pulley inside it?
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Emr: it's gotta work! I made it work just fine with the pictures!
what is the part that doesn't work? Two carabiners at the same time or flipping the bottom carabiner to fit the pulley inside it?
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
Or the biner bites the rope
NickfromWI
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Damn...didn't even think about that. 
emr
Cheesehead Treehouser
The two biners wont work. The flipping thing isnt an issue and I dont think the biners would pinch the rope. I just couldnt get 2 biners in at the same time. I used ball locks and Petzls tri-locks.
rumination
Migratory Hippie Arbolist
To be honest, now that I see what you want to do with it I'm tending to Skwerl's cautionary position. I don't think the pulley is designed to be loaded three ways like that.
NickfromWI
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I can't see why it would make a difference. All points were designed to hold the load. I the total load would be well within the appropriate safety margins, I can't see it failing.
Right now it looks like it is a compatibility issue, not a strength issue.
What part do you think would go first?
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Right now it looks like it is a compatibility issue, not a strength issue.
What part do you think would go first?
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nick
Hi Nick. Instead of attaching the eye of your climbline to the same pulley,either with two carabiners or a single sheave w/ becket, you could girth hitch another sling to clip the rope eye. It could be placed right next to the first one or even on another part of thr tree, like another branch or the stem so that the three sections of rope running up and down don't interfere with each other.
