You can make a single eye split tail (tied or spliced) with hitch cord, just fine. That's what you'll want for tying a tauntline or a Blake's. For the more "high-speed" and customizable hitches (distal, vt, Campbell... etc,) you'll need an eye2eye prussic cord. These can also be tied or spliced. Equal rope/cordage diameter is OK with the tauntline and Blake's, but the eye2eye hitches perform far better when the hitch cord is 10%+ smaller than the climbing line.
Neither did you until you obtained the information. That's why I'm asking specific questions.
Yeah, I'm bypassing the old-school methods going to a hitch-climber with a foot ascender, also plan on making a homemade HAAS - doesn't seem like it should be all that difficult to make one based around the same chest-ascender the HAAS comes with which I picked up for under $20 on Amazon. Stepping your way up the rope seems like a whole lot less hassle and a lot faster than various traditional methods I've observed, though no doubt I'll experiment with them as well just for fun - and who knows, there might be a circumstance where it could come in handy to know how to do it the old way. But as a go-to method for actually getting up into a tree to do some cutting the foot ascender and HAAS seems like the way to go - especially if I might need to go up and down repeatedly.
Will definitely check it out, thanks.
