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Nice, thanks! That helps clear the waters a bit.

Right right, friction loss and all that. Just throwing around broad concepts here. . . Peter, if you tie that weight to itself double rope style, and lift it, allowing a bit of slack on the tending/prussik side, does the same thing happen?

Man. . . It's like trying to wrap my head around the idea of an infinite universe. hahaha So the friction saver (let's assume a friction saver, sleeve, ring-ring, whatever) is acting as a pulley, essentially a series of levers. When I put the necessary force into the 'Pull' leg to raise the...

Something I hear a lot about Classic Doubled Rope Technique is that it doesn't double the load on the TIP as you terminate the line on the same point. True, when you're stationary, hanging from a doubled-rope system, it splits the load between the two legs. However when you're ascending...