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What’s the purpose of the micro pulley? Is it like a tender that allows you to make one hand assent by pulling up on the tag end of the rope causing it to push the schwabish up the rope?
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The micro pulley is used for DRT where you use a long rope and double it up. A 75' rope, I can get almost 35' up the tree...the rope goes over the branch and down to me. I then do a figure 8 on the left side of the rope with a stopper knot...then on the right side of the rope I then put my schwabish friction hitch on and hook it to my carabiner on my figure 8 that is now attached to my bridge. I then put a non-climbing prussic on the left side of the rope just above my schwabish with a non-climbing carabiner...put my micro pulley on the right side of the rope but beneath my schwabish and hook my non-climbing carabiner. Load the schwabish so that it grabs and pull the right side of the rope as I thrust my hips up the tree. The thrust and pull combination is what pulls my schwabish up with my pulley helping it.
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