Ax-Man
Don't make me chop you
I have been taking advantage of one of the guys that helps me out with his new Blackberry camera phone that takes some very nice pictures.
I made this little homemade set-up for a porty out of some odds and ends. I like it for doing light,medium duty type lowering using a porta-a-wrap. It is fashioned similar to a clock hitch which is my prefered method over a whoopie sling. As safety of sort you can run the tail of the rope back through the ring and timber hitch back onto itself.
For me this is a quick and easy set-up, cinches up nice and tight with that prussik with very little slop. It also works great IMO for a 5 to 1 on a neighboring tree to pull a spar over if that is all you have to work with or as quick redirect for a pulley.
I know with all the tensile strength reducing knots this isn't an ideal attachment for slam dunking blocks of wood but I have loaded this some good sized limbs for lowering and it has held up good. Much better than I thought it would.
I just thought I would throw this out on the table and see what kind of feedback I get.
I made this little homemade set-up for a porty out of some odds and ends. I like it for doing light,medium duty type lowering using a porta-a-wrap. It is fashioned similar to a clock hitch which is my prefered method over a whoopie sling. As safety of sort you can run the tail of the rope back through the ring and timber hitch back onto itself.
For me this is a quick and easy set-up, cinches up nice and tight with that prussik with very little slop. It also works great IMO for a 5 to 1 on a neighboring tree to pull a spar over if that is all you have to work with or as quick redirect for a pulley.
I know with all the tensile strength reducing knots this isn't an ideal attachment for slam dunking blocks of wood but I have loaded this some good sized limbs for lowering and it has held up good. Much better than I thought it would.
I just thought I would throw this out on the table and see what kind of feedback I get.