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Does anyone sell an aftermarket bridge?

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SNIPERBBB

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Would like to just buy a factory short bridge for SRT/DRT. Course I'm skinny enough that I can clip my beener directly to both lineman loops of my phantom when wearing summer clothes.
 
2 water knots on climbing webbing and 2 carabiners would work and be easy to take off.
 
You can just buy rope. I used muddy safeline rope for mine. Figure 8 on one side, girth hitched to loop. On the other I run a schwebasch with a tender on a carabiner. Fully adjustable and packs into my side pouch nicely. It also serves very well as a backup linemans belt and I can adjust it real close to me when I rappel. I can't see a single draw back to it, other than carrying an extra carabiner (that I don't even notice).
 
A lot of people are making their own adjustable bridge now, so you can run it whatever length you want. A common design mimics the Cruzr bridge, but a different rope is often used. Mine is an Oplux bridge with a TRC adjustable prusik on the left side. I don't SRT, but when walking in or when climbing with sticks (even though I'm still tethered for safety), I run the bridge short and then lengthen when hunting. Mine are all rope connections, so I don't have a carabiner to worry about anywhere on the bridge/bridge loops.
 
Does girth hitching allow the bridge to be adjusted on the bridge loops like H2 triad bridge?
 
You just girth hitch one side so that its attached. The other side being a friction hitch is what allows it to be adjusted.
 
rhagenw said:
Does girth hitching allow the bridge to be adjusted on the bridge loops like H2 triad bridge?
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I assume you are talking about position/angle and not length adjustment. Some folks here are girth hitching and say it allows you to change position and that it holds there. I have not tried it, so I don't know. I have tried doing what the H2 does, which is a prusik, and it works well. A prusik is conceptually the same as a girth hitch, except you repeat the 3 times (you could also try just once). So, I haven't felt the need to go to a girth hitch since the prusik is working.
 
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