How'd it go today?

[Burnham]

would a backup knot behind the prusik help with that?

Sorry @friedrich, I missed your post somehow. To answer your question...that would certainly have stopped any slippage from happening, but...

First most, I was using two prusiks on two separate winching arrangements; one to advance the pull and one to capture the gain while the first was reset over and over, so I never had slack to tie a backup knot behind the prusik with the heaviest loading (the one most prone to slippage). I suppose I could have gotten around this by adding a breakdown and reset step to each cycle, but it was tedious enough already .

Secondly, it was perhaps better to allow the prusiks to slip at a few times, rather than really overload the pull rope any more than I already was .

I sacrificed two prusik loops and cut off about 15 feet of the pull line to discard the glazed sections afterwards...not a very high price to pay in the big picture, to me.

 

[Kaveman]

In defense of Burnham:

Even I, the self professed Rope Diva, must say; Rope is cheap, compared to everything else.

Also, thanks for the nifty new rope washer! I look forward to using it, once it stops raining! 🌧️