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Rappel rope
- Thread starter Brian sharnick
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Hey buddy! Great question. I'm glad you asked!
Many folks like to coil or figure 8 the length of their rope. I personally have found that coiling any rope will undoubtedly leave me with a mess once I go to deploy it. So the process I settled on is almost too simple to believe... just stuff the rope in the bag and don't try to coil it. The principle is based on climbing rope in a rope tarp.
I give it an odd fold and a little turn every time I grab a handful of rope and shove it in the bag. The messier, the better! I've employed this strategy successfully using two different bags. Hopefully the pictures below capture what the end product looks like.
Both bags have a hole through which I feed the end of the rope. This ensures the rope pays out nicely and doesn't come out in clumps.
Yeppers! All 37ft of it... and a Safeguard... and an Kong Argon carabiner... and a Petzl delta link... and a bow hanger/tether assist tool
Mine is a different brand than what @DanO sells. Pretty confident you could get much of the same gear in his though.
"Better" is kind of subjective and so I'm not sure I can address that since I've never used a roll up pouch style bag.
I can say this though, the roll up style pouch is an interesting design. However, it doesn't appeal to me because the way I've seen it used, you have to remove the entire length of rope from the bag and toss it down the tree prior to beginning your rappel.
The water bottle pouch is different in that the rope stays in the bag and pays out while you descend.
Oh cool, i didnt realize it stayed in and fed out itself. Do you have a video of you repelling with it?"Better" is kind of subjective and so I'm not sure I can address that since I've never used a roll up pouch style bag.
I can say this though, the roll up style pouch is an interesting design. However, it doesn't appeal to me because the way I've seen it used, you have to remove the entire length of rope from the bag and toss it down the tree prior to beginning your rappel.
The water bottle pouch is different in that the rope stays in the bag and pays out while you descend.
Yeah. There's one here somewhere about it. Need to do another one though now that I think about it since I switched from an ATC to a Safeguard.
You know I have never thought about it in this manner. Every time get out of the tree I take my gear rope and try to wrap it up very nice and neat for the next hunt. Every time I get to the tree on the next hunt I have to get all the knots out and it takes a few minutes. When I get to the top and I’m settled in the tree I just throw it in the bag. When I go to descend down the tree and take it out it has no knots in it and just drops straight to the ground.
Yep. Seems super-counter-intuitive
Yep. Seems super-counter-intuitive
ThanksYep. Seems super-counter-intuitive
Red beard trying that when I get home from work
Hmm,i might have to try to apply this to more areas of my life. But how to sell it to the wife....
Try this on for size...
Lashing strap from Walmart camping section cut to size, and added to MOLLE loop on hip of saddle:
Coil your rappel rope into a figure 8 by going back and forth between your hand and elbow:
Open buckle, feed strap thru figure 8 coil, and close buckle. Rope rides neatly on your hip and out of the way:
Works great for transport. For climbing and hunting purposes, you can open the buckle, pull 7 feet or so out, and re-close the buckle. Then when you're ready to rappel down, simply squeeze the buckle to open it and your rope will fall to the ground untangled. A simple $2 solution...
Lashing strap from Walmart camping section cut to size, and added to MOLLE loop on hip of saddle:
Coil your rappel rope into a figure 8 by going back and forth between your hand and elbow:
Open buckle, feed strap thru figure 8 coil, and close buckle. Rope rides neatly on your hip and out of the way:
Works great for transport. For climbing and hunting purposes, you can open the buckle, pull 7 feet or so out, and re-close the buckle. Then when you're ready to rappel down, simply squeeze the buckle to open it and your rope will fall to the ground untangled. A simple $2 solution...
