Recent content by climbing.jo

Hello, im Johannes from Germany. I work as a freelance tree climber and rope access worker in Berlin. Been reading this forum for about a year. I really like the spirit of this community and enjoy the conversations here. Cheers for having me. Johannes

How do you advance the hitchhiker / rw? Dont you need some kind of chestharness or los anyway sean?

I saw a picture over on arbtalk i think where some one build one without a bungee. he made something like a stiff ropewrench tether to go inbetween the ascender and the footsling. he had another piece of cord at the knee to make it stay upright. cant find the thread right now but hope you can...

No worries. Thats quite close to what i used to run. Doubling up the cord didnt help for me as the clip in for the elastic was to low. I use a rw with a hc pulley and clip to the middle hole.

The big difference for me is that due to the elastic being attached at the bottom there is more cord to stretch. This way you can take bigger strides without the elastic ever going slack. The homemade version was probly under 10 euros in materials if you exclude the petzl basic.

Put some plastic tube inside the tubular. Works really well and i get a lot of lift for taking big strides.

Version two. I found out that the old pantin did not grab very well when mounted at the knee. So i just made this one with a petzl basic. Havnt had time to try it but it works really well in the living room.

I used a machine for sewing it

As i live in germany i ve never had the chance to play with an actual haas, i just looked at the video and thought the ideawas very nice.

No there is no plastic tubing inside, the Bunge runs straight through the tubular webbing. But it could be added quite easily to reduce wear. The clip is just an old chainlink which keeps the ascender orientated right.

Cheers for having me :thumbup:

Made from an old left foot pantin and some flat and tubular webbing. Greetings from Germany Johannes