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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Brocky, Thanks again for your careful replies. After considering that I tend not to think of many things at once, I will stick with the 'biner at the end of the Blake's tail clipping to a alpine butterfly. I still would need to tie a stop knot and the thimble is a piece of gear that I could...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Brocky, Thanks very much for making the extra effort and creating a great picture. What do you think of the idea of making a piece of +/-5 mm line with a total finished length of about 10 inches that would have a sewn-in-thimble eye on one and and a regular small spliced eye on the other? My...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    @Brocky, What diameter on the plastic thimble? I am using a 10mm rope (.39"), and Westpur has .5" and .625" thimbles. I suppose I could try both, the the .625 would slide the easiest and still never get past the BH. Thanks again, Orion
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Hi all, Had another test of the Prusik loop on Tuesday and it worked great. I thought to test the tending attachment to the butterfly by moving the butterfly and yup, I could get the BH to jam on decent if it were too far from the BFH. I moved the BFH down and the BH did not jam. I am really...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    @Brocky.. Thanks very much. This is really helpful. It looks like there is a fundamental difference between tending (pulling up) the BH with the tag end of the BH connected to uphaul side of the DRT loop (the way I have been) and *pushing* up the BH. There has got to be less friction/wear in...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Hi SH Nation! I have an update but first want to say thanks for all the contributions. It's actually quite humbling that much of this is entirely new and points to the need for getting up to speed pretty quickly on better rescue techniques. Saturday I went out in the woods and used a piece of...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Hi SH! Ok, so this is great. I have been out in the yard and this seems to be exactly the issue--too tight a connection with the tender. I had tried a Dyneema prusik earlier, but liked the Alpine butterfly because it stayed put. So maybe both--butterfly on the way up, prusik connection (lower...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Thanks everyone. Absolutely self rescue techniques I need to know cold; however I'm really trying to solve the Blakes hitch issue for the moment. The tree was also just too big, I couldn't get my regular lineman's belt around it. I didn't even put the pull up line back in the tree when I left...
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    Jammed Blake's Hitch Last Night in the Woods: Serious issue needs advice

    Hi SH, Need some help on this one. Almost had a 911 in the woods last night for the first time in over 50 yrs of hunting. Hitch jammed on the way down and if it weren't for a nearby tree that I could grab onto and unload/redress the Blake's hitch, I might have had to get some help. It seemed...
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    Boots that will stand up to DRT?

    Hi SH-ers, I have been using a saddle since '05 (TrophyLine, now Aero) and have bought into DRT all the way, but man, hard on the boots. So far two pairs (still had much wear left in each) have bit the dust after a season of DRT. It seems the shearing effect of sliding around the tree is what...
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