Lap link tender

[Fairchild#17]

Discovered a viable use for those lap links. 1/8” link fits really snug on 8mm rope
In an effort to find an ascending technique that requires the bare minimum of hardware I realized I needed a hitch tender than was removable in order to rappel down. This little fella has no moving parts, weighs nothing, and works as good as any other tending device I’ve tried.
Just needs to be smoothed up with a file to take the factory burrs off.
The Schwabisch hitch is the bomb. Grabs reliably, releases with little effort, and tends like a dream.
Once again. Sideways pics! There has to be a way to keep this from happening.

 

[FrankNess14]

Very nice! Where did u snag them?


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[Brocky]

This was brought up in another thread, but the suggested use was a replacement for a screw link, or delta on a tether. It received a resounding thumbs down, and using it as a tender came up. I keep my hitch legs as short as possible and place the tender in between the hitch eyes. The steel ones are at Ace, Lowe’s, etc, the one on the right is aluminum with Techcord cover.

 

[Fairchild#17]

Very nice! Where did u snag them?


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Any hardware store

 

[Fairchild#17]

I untie the hitch to rappel down so i didn’t want the legs too short because they are harder to tie/undo.

 

[Fairchild#17]

Well that didn’t last long. LOL. I like this one even better. You can put the small and into a vise and crimp it so that the rope snaps into the small end and stays there until you pop it out.
This keeps the tender up against the knot and away from the carabiner. Less rope movement to engage and less of a chance for metal on metal contact. And zero chance of fouling like i found could happen with the lap link.

 

[Brocky]

That’s neat it stays up close!
Tying a stopper after tying the hitch is another option, the knot acts as a tender.