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Does anyone- tether question

noxninja

noxninja

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Does anyone have a biner on the end of their tether so that they just loop it around the tree and clip it back to the mainline? Right now I just slip mine through the big loop and pull everything through for a cinch.
 
Standard carabiners can get a little squirrelly with this...getting side loaded or the rope is pulling your gate open. Mess with it at ground level so you see how it can go wrong.

Steel Delta Screwlinks are generally recommended for this but aren't as convenient. One bad thing is that your tether falls very easily when unloaded. A good thing if you are doing a rappel descent and want to retrieve your rope easily.
 
What justsomedude said is spot on. There are screw links made for this but IMO for our purposes what you're doing is better and lighter.
 
noxninja said:
Does anyone have a biner on the end of their tether so that they just loop it around the tree and clip it back to the mainline? Right now I just slip mine through the big loop and pull everything through for a cinch.
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This is how Butch does the stock Quido'sWeb tether which is made from seatbelt strap.
 
It generally depends on what I'm girth hitching to. But for around the trunk just once as your tether I wouldn't use a biner but you'll eventually wear out the loop end. If I'm using a branch I use a biner but as Red said a delta link is better for the application.
 
DIYSaddler said:
It generally depends on what I'm girth hitching to. But for around the trunk just once as your tether I wouldn't use a biner but you'll eventually wear out the loop end. If I'm using a branch I use a biner but as Red said a delta link is better for the application.
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Ok forgive my ignorance but what is a delta link?


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noxninja said:
Ok forgive my ignorance but what is a delta link?


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One of these guys. Just make sure you get them from a climbing/arborist site so you don't end up with the uncertified chinese ones.

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noxninja said:
Does anyone have a biner on the end of their tether so that they just loop it around the tree and clip it back to the mainline? Right now I just slip mine through the big loop and pull everything through for a cinch.
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That's a bad idea, You never want to side load a carabiner.
 
hickstick said:
Hmmmm....now I'm thinking... with a fixed webbing loop sewn to the inside of my RC harness with small 'pencil' sized loops left at each hip. I could snake these around my harness belt & through the webbing loops and have a nice linemans belt....and just remove the deltas when I want to rock climb.
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If you got smallish Aluminum ones it might be good. Do you mean to use them as if you had "D Rings"?
 
hickstick said:
Hmmmm....now I'm thinking... with a fixed webbing loop sewn to the inside of my RC harness with small 'pencil' sized loops left at each hip. I could snake these around my harness belt & through the webbing loops and have a nice linemans belt....and just remove the deltas when I want to rock climb.
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I don't know how much you would want to do that. The forces involved in rock falls are way higher than what we are generating. That and most RC harness now a days aren't a solid piece of webbing to sew to all the way around. Not to mention if you modified equipment fails any accidental death benefits your family might receive might be nullified if you die. Rock climbing is inherently dangerous and harness are relatively cheap. I may mix and match biners but I keep my ropes and harness separate from my tree gear.

Not to mention, have you smelled a RC harness after a season of climbing? A deer might very well be able to smell mine passing overhead if we launched it into a low earth orbit.
 
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