bonner1040
Nick from Ohio
Pics!! Lanyard Innovations
Does anyone out there have any innovative lanyard/buckstrap setups? I have never been satisfied with the DEDA deal with a prussik and a pulley, the idea of one of the snaps being able to "run" the prussik in the event of being weighted never appealed to me.
Always a fan of mechanical aids and and cams i really like the simplicity of a gibb-like adjuster on a lanyard. I used to use a home-made Petzl Grillion, basically a grigri and a length of old rope when i worked on the towers but it just doesnt cut it in the tree. I tend to use an alternate lanyard climbing technique alot in the tree and often like to switch from one lanyard to another interchangably with a climbing line. The idea of using two lanyards each with a mech adjustuster just doesnt appeal to me because of the clunkiness etc.
Currently I use a petzl shunt ( http://www.treestuff.com/news.asp?news_id=55 ) with about 12' of 11mm rope doubled through it and a snaphook on each end. With a blue and a red snaphook i know that the blue hook is the rope coming out of the top of the device as it is oriented to me in the tree and the red is the bottom one. it is really easy to tighten and loosen both under load and not. I like that one end can be lengthened or shortened without changing the other side, this does involve releasing the load but it is as simple as lifting your hips while standing on a branch or your hooks or whatnot. I attached the device to my right d ring with one of those nifty twisted shackle deals to get it to orient so the ropes exit the device perpendicular to my body standing up straight.
If both ends of the lanyard are pulled out all the way it causes the "belly" of the rope system which comes out the back of the shunt to get pulled in pretty tight to the device so i just hooked a quick link on there which gives me something to grab/loosen with and keeps the soft side of the rope away from the workings at the back of the device.
I saw an old thread about this somewhere once after i did some searching on my idea, maybe the buzz?, but the guy got blasted pretty good. Seems like he was using it more in a rec setting with over 30' of rope or something.
In any event, i have been using it for the last 3 months or so without any complications or worries and i like it alot and thought i would share it with you guys.
Let me know what you guys use or any thoughts you have!
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Does anyone out there have any innovative lanyard/buckstrap setups? I have never been satisfied with the DEDA deal with a prussik and a pulley, the idea of one of the snaps being able to "run" the prussik in the event of being weighted never appealed to me.
Always a fan of mechanical aids and and cams i really like the simplicity of a gibb-like adjuster on a lanyard. I used to use a home-made Petzl Grillion, basically a grigri and a length of old rope when i worked on the towers but it just doesnt cut it in the tree. I tend to use an alternate lanyard climbing technique alot in the tree and often like to switch from one lanyard to another interchangably with a climbing line. The idea of using two lanyards each with a mech adjustuster just doesnt appeal to me because of the clunkiness etc.
Currently I use a petzl shunt ( http://www.treestuff.com/news.asp?news_id=55 ) with about 12' of 11mm rope doubled through it and a snaphook on each end. With a blue and a red snaphook i know that the blue hook is the rope coming out of the top of the device as it is oriented to me in the tree and the red is the bottom one. it is really easy to tighten and loosen both under load and not. I like that one end can be lengthened or shortened without changing the other side, this does involve releasing the load but it is as simple as lifting your hips while standing on a branch or your hooks or whatnot. I attached the device to my right d ring with one of those nifty twisted shackle deals to get it to orient so the ropes exit the device perpendicular to my body standing up straight.
If both ends of the lanyard are pulled out all the way it causes the "belly" of the rope system which comes out the back of the shunt to get pulled in pretty tight to the device so i just hooked a quick link on there which gives me something to grab/loosen with and keeps the soft side of the rope away from the workings at the back of the device.
I saw an old thread about this somewhere once after i did some searching on my idea, maybe the buzz?, but the guy got blasted pretty good. Seems like he was using it more in a rec setting with over 30' of rope or something.
In any event, i have been using it for the last 3 months or so without any complications or worries and i like it alot and thought i would share it with you guys.
Let me know what you guys use or any thoughts you have!
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