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Ditch the Ropeman

River Hunter said:
You guys are over-complicating it.
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what did you use? is that a rubber o ring or ?
 
Peterk1234 said:
I have been setting up my daughter's boyfriend to hunt out of a sitdrag. We have everything but the ropeman. If you can find them, they are 45 bucks or more. Imagine my delight when I stumbled onto this thread. So I sewed up my own simple version. Light, quiet and works like a charm.

Final version uses a much shorter prusik. Basically, a two inch "tag end" so it becomes a short reach and appears to bind quicker.

Good stuff guys. Thank you. Pete


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I highly recommend getting some decent cord and ditching the cotton or whatever that is.

Side question, does anyone know if a 3/8 (9.5mm) rope will feed through those kong keychains or is the bigger hole too small?
 
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powhound84 said:
does anyone know if a 3/8 (9.5mm) rope will feed through those kong keychains or is it too big?
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I've only ever used 9mm HTP (haven't joined the OpLux crowd yet) and that runs through it uber-freely. I would imagine 9.5 would work. I'll try some 10.5mm this evening and let you know if that fits.
 
powhound84 said:
Side question, does anyone know if a 3/8 (9.5mm) rope will feed through those kong keychains or is the bigger hole too small?
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You can fit 10mm through the large hole in the Kong mini figure 8. However, I didn't test it out - it might be too tight to be user-friendly, not sure.
 
hokiehunter373 said:
I want to say he's talking about the ropeman but I could be wrong

No, I think I remember someone emailed Beal and they did no recommend using the cut and tied Jammy in our applications


Yeah I wanted to try out the klemheist first just to see if I could keep the jammy as is instead of cutting it. Just testing it last night the kong tended the hitch better than I could have imagined. Super smooth. I'll test it out at ground height when I've got a chance before I get in a tree but it seems like the only drawback will be keeping it dressed. I'll report back.
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River Hunter said:
Tethrd discussed its use with Wild Country (the manufacturer) and they approved the use in saddle hunting scenarios.
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Is this published info and do you have a link to it? I have never heard that Tether discussed and WC approved RM 1 use for the way we use it.
 
GCTerpfan said:
Is this published info and do you have a link to it? I have never heard that Tether discussed and WC approved RM 1 use for the way we use it.
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Nothing published but talk to Ernie and he can fill you in.

It's a frickin rock climbing ascender ...

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River Hunter said:
Nothing published but talk to Ernie and he can fill you in.

It's a frickin rock climbing ascender ...

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If it's not published by Wild Country, I would take it with a grain of salt. I'm pretty confident that they would not approve their product for some of the uses I have seen on this site. It's an ascender and is designed for use with static loads, not as fall protection.
 
powhound84 said:
If it's not published by Wild Country, I would take it with a grain of salt. I'm pretty confident that they would not approve their product for some of the uses I have seen on this site. It's an ascender and is designed for use with static loads, not as fall protection.
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You are at tension all the time. We aren't using it to catch a fall.
Call Wild Country and ask.

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Tractor supply. Got to drill to fit but I think this is what I needed


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mattsteg said:
Beal's response is posted here. I do not remember it being like that at all...
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And for reference their response linked :

8mm Oplux questions & uses

In a loop, my concern would be ease of adjustment as a prusik on both my lb and tether. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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8mm Oplux questions & uses

In a loop, my concern would be ease of adjustment as a prusik on both my lb and tether. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
saddlehunter.com
 
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