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Bravo, @Burnham! Saving that loot with some DIY magic!

You might want to invest in an HMS carabiner for your rope wrench so you can fit both the hitch cord eyes and the eyes for the wrench tether on the bottom most hole of the hitch climber pulley. It might tend and advance strangely with howl you have it there. But perhaps not. Never tried what...

@Ryan Thanks! I appreciate that. Now that I have a GoPro, I'm able to film climbs. It's gteat. The Beasthorn is probably my favorite because it requires zero hardware and is retrievable. The other one is better if you're doing one or more redirects after it. Sometimes I just use it because it's...

Here's anothe retrievable redirect you can do with JUST YOUR ROPE...

Here's my favorite retrievable redirect using a Dyneema Sling, Pinto Pulley and Revolver Rig. It's excellent for when you have a lot of redirects because friction is ultra low when I pull out my canopy or basal anchors. If you don't have a Revolver RIg, you can simply use a carabiner, whether...

For anyone reading this a considering using any of these techniques, be sure not to use them with a Rope Runner OR Rope Runner Pro because the instruction manual specifically shows that it isn't designed for such applications. Using a RRP in a 3:1 can cause it to collapse, resulting in the...

Mechanical advantage on a limb walk is a luxury, not a necessity.

I have no voices screaming in my head. I'm Knotorious, the knot and splice enthusiast and hitch connoisseur. I can easily identify and verify most life supporting knots quite easily and with confidence. I'm not trying to sound like a badass, I'm just saying...if I see a knot tied correctly...

Just to be clear, the stitching used my Teufelberger would not prevent a corrupt knot from failing. It's just cosmetic to be able to tell if an alteration has been made.

If the person tying the knots has tied the knots a thousand times, it's probably safe. I almost never tie knots wrong and I do so on auto mode most of the time. I obviously inspect any knot I use, and you can easily inspect factory tied knots as well. Teufelberger will sew their double...

The Stevedore is much secure than the double overhand/double Fisherman because it doesn't pull out as easily. With the latter, you can force it to collapse by just pulling on the knot. The Stevedore is resistant to collapse because of how it bights around the tail perpendicularly to the wraps.

The yellow cord is likely a Sterling RIT 8mm (versus RIT Resonse in 9mm).

I didn't make my knee ascender. I already told you it's the Stein Cambo knee ascent system. I knew what you were referring to. I was making a very basic point: not all factory made knee ascenders avoid using normal sized chest ascenders. And therfore, in the case of my knee ascender, which is...

Did you or did you not say that a chest ascender would be bigger than what would be found on a knee ascender? By virtue of the fact that my knee ascender has a normal sized chest ascender on it, it contradicts what you said -- at least in my case. My brain is fully engaged, @CurSedVoyce.

I have the Stein Cambo knee ascender and it has a normal sized chest ascender on it. I have my Amazon ascender next to it for comparison. The on the Cambo is actually much heavier than the cheap one off of Amazon; I think the body must be steel. Anyways, you can see it does have a thick bungee...

@Ryan, you could always buy a chest ascender off of Amazon and use that. They are short money. I bought one (a differen't one than shared here) in the same price range as this one and it works great. You can also find inexpensive bungee cord on Amazon as well and accessory cord to make a foot loop.

Gotcha. I was mostly referring to the orientation of the hand ascender, but considering how the dowel places your hands in the same position as a double hand ascender, it's pretty much the same thing. The only difference between what I suggested and the dowel concept would be how you hold onto...

As for double fisting a hand ascender designed for one hand, the dowel idea is very clever. Another option would be to splice or sew an eye (it's not life support, so you can hand stich the eyes yourself) onto either end of a very small length of 10mm (thicker is more comfortable in one's hand)...

Another training idea I just thought of is, when you feel ready, to practice limb walks...on the ground. Practice your throw weight and throwline technique by setting either a basal or canopy anchor into a high up TIP. Then, while on the ground, practice your technique by first moving outward...

@Ryan I was just watching one of the videos you posted of you climbing a tree for practice. It looks as if you're effectively utilizing a "sit/stand" technique. Now that you know that your hand ascender-above-the-wrench idea is less than ideal, it seems to me that you might want to practice the...