You're safe with a ropeman 1 if you pay attention to it and make sure all the slack is out of it, You'd be safer with a friction hitch like a schwabish with 8mm bee line cord hands down. Ive been using 10mm bee line on my linemens belt with a distel hitch and a micro pulley to tend it.
Sounds like more stuff for me to buy! I just want something that frees up easier than the Blake's hitch that comes tied onto the tree strap on the aero hunter. The linesmans belt doesn't bind up like the tether does. I can't get that thing to free up with all kinds of contortion and making ugly faces. Pretty intrigued by the schwabish or distel hitch. At least for climbing.
I have one that is the original yale bandit that came with he aero hunter and I bought some of the Samson Predator to make a new tether.
Yes, and I looked and I think the predator is 11.4.
A 9mm friction cord should work great, A 10mm bee line would work good too. Problem with prusik hitches is they grab too good for any kind of real use, and the smaller the hitch cord the harder they bite.
We just have to be careful to point out the dangers of different techniques. A lot of people come here and buy whatever we tell them. They need to know the risks of any given equipment choice or technique
On some of my videos, I've gone back and pinned comments to the top and the description with additional safety considerations learned since the initial upload. I've used climbing sticks for over a decade and never slipped. So for me, doing some shortcuts is a calculated risk. But for someone watching the video and not realizing it's a risk, they could have serious consequences. So there's an obligation to try and explain where things could go wrong so that people at least know where the dangers lie like you said.
Looks like he's using the friction hitch to backup his ropeman in case it failed.
