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SRT with figure 8

bj139 said:
Just curious. Why would your replace your gri gri with the figure 8?
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I've used a grigri before, but I dont own one. I did however own a hand ascender and a figure 8. This is why I tried to figure it out.

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pesqimon said:
This sounds like a dealbreaker to me.
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Really you just have to pull the tag end up. If you re route the tag end through ascender it will flip. Otherwise your good.

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I don't know what the failure modes are with this. Until you find out you might want to avoid 20 foot climbs. I have a gri gri and have done about a dozen climbs and rappels and it seems to just work. Why not just use the figure 8 for the way it was designed? In the standard modes it certainly has enough centuries of testing to know what to expect. I am not trying to be a wise a$$ but this must have been tried many decades ago and abandoned for some reason. If you find any more info please let us know. I am tempted to buy a figure eight to play with at low level.
 
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