Genesis Of The RopeWrench?

[lxskllr]

Does anyone know where the idea of the RopeWrench came from? Did Kevin intuit that himself, or was it adapted from another discipline? I was watching some old videos in the 'new gear' thread, and it occurred to me that putting a crimp in the rope to relieve tension on the hitch isn't an idea I'd likely have come up with on my own. Simple and clever. A really elegant design.

 

[friedrich]

i think the f8 revolver system came first, than a real wrench, wooden wrench, zk-1.. if i recall correctly, he improvised the f8 revolver system to be able to work storm damaged trees on a single line during cleanup.

 

[lxskllr]

In case there's anyone else not familiar with the F8Revolver...

 

[Tree09]

Basically yes, he's a genius.

 

[Brocky]

I think the timeline is a 3/8” box end wrench, then drilled hammer handles, F8 Revolver, and then ZK1.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I still use the F8 from time to time for a second tie in with the tail of my rope.

 

[treebilly]

Kevin’s idea and invention. He explained a lot of it to me while we were on a flight together years ago. This was when the rope runner pro was still a concept. Too bad I had a pretty healthy bias going from being stuck in the airport bar for two hours between flights. I forget the timeline

 

[cory]

Basically yes, he's a genius.

 

[cory]

Somewhere here at the House is a convo he had re his first real world use of a RW on storm damage in Tejas. Definetly fascinating stuff. It allowed him to go from tree to tree to tree without grounding in between which was a big plus as he was being paid by the tree while storm chasing, iirc.