Is this your first climb? It softens up with use, much like a new pack.
I gave mine to my son, but quickly realized how ingenious that sleeve is so I cut a length of 1” tubular webbing and added that to the lineman’s rope I made for myself. The webbing is soft and quiet from the get go.
I took mine off immediately
X2. It was too noisy for me. I haven't really noticed any wear on my lineman's from not using not using the sleeve but, to be fair, with the way I climb (single sticking) it doesn't see a lot of use.I took mine off immediately
X2. It was too noisy for me. I haven't really noticed any wear on my lineman's from not using not using the sleeve but, to be fair, with the way I climb (single sticking) it doesn't see a lot of use.
X2. It was too noisy for me. I haven't really noticed any wear on my lineman's from not using not using the sleeve but, to be fair, with the way I climb (single sticking) it doesn't see a lot of use.
I would have never considered that. I guess in my applications, when I'm on my linesman's I don't have a need for it to slide around the tree as I only use it for hands free work positioning. Learn something new everyday .The sleeve isn’t for wear protection, wear protection is a by-product of it’s greater function which is to allow the rope to slide through while the sleeve stays in place. This sliding allows you to turn freely left and right while maintaining pressure on the lineman’s rope.
The sleeve isn’t for wear protection, wear protection is a by-product of it’s greater function which is to allow the rope to slide through while the sleeve stays in place. This sliding allows you to turn freely left and right while maintaining pressure on the lineman’s rope.
That’s a whole new perspective on this. Now that I think about it I may have to figure out how to keep that on my lineman belt but with less noise.
If you have it and want to use it by all means do. There are a whole bunch of us climbing in all ways imaginable that haven’t used one or had a need for one.