Hey y’all, been a while since I’ve posted but I was looking at the Phantom saddle and though it’s quite cool, I noticed some things that rang my safety alarm: the Amsteel bridge is adjustable with a prusik of exactly the same diameter and material. Is there a climbing instructor, arborist, or anyone else who can explain why the conventional wisdom of the 1) the prusik being of a smaller diameter than the main line, and 2) never using a prusik on hollow-core rope, especially slippery-ass dyneema, have been subverted for this saddle? Am I overlooking a key piece of safety built into the saddle that the research hasn’t led me to? This seems like a (few) deaths waiting to happen, especially if people keep trying to throw RM1s on their dyneema bridges to cut down even more weight or bulk or whatever.
Help me, Arbor-Wan Kenobis...you’re my only hope of understanding.
Help me, Arbor-Wan Kenobis...you’re my only hope of understanding.