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Tree Tether

drew_skool said:
Don’t have to have a sore neck. Just learn to tie an alpine butterfly knot and you can easily place it on the tag line at just the right spot so, in the event of a prussik/ropeman/other failure, you’d only drop about an inch before being caught.
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This^^^

I think the easiest way to tie starts at 1:17 of this video. This method is actually one less step than the video mentioned above.

 
My rappel rope is my tether.
I hang on a friction hitch tied directly to my figure 8.
When I'm finished climbing I thread in the 8 which is only a link ( doing nothing)on the way up and then take a bight of rope through my hip D and tie two half hitches.
I coil the rest and hang it or lay it on a branch.
 
Bigfoot522 said:
My rappel rope is my tether.
I hang on a friction hitch tied directly to my figure 8.
When I'm finished climbing I thread in the 8 which is only a link ( doing nothing)on the way up and then take a bight of rope through my hip D and tie two half hitches.
I coil the rest and hang it or lay it on a branch.
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Got a pic of that 8 as your using it?


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Only this one right now.
I'm hanging on my rope, friction hitch is tied to the 8 which is attached to my saddle by a soft shackle.
In this picture I failed to thread the 8 for redundancy and put it in a crotch.
To thread the 8 I just pass a bight thru the big ring and step through it and take out the slack, two seconds.
When I rappel down the hitch is my back up or allows me to stop and work hands free.
On the ground I massage the hitch loose and slide the rope out of the hitch and retrieve it. Then I thread it back into the hitch and slide the hitch back to the other end for the next climb.
It's been working great.
I have a couple eye to eye hitch cords but they don't grab well on my rope due to size or material.
This is working real good but another evolution is always around the corner.Screenshot_20211031-070049_Gallery.jpg
 
I use the Sport mode of Fig. 8 use, put a bight through and then through the opened carabiner, an extra wrap around the carabiner gives a lot of friction. A brake bar and Click Up used the same way.
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I have a black diamond pilot that I tried out. It work ok but I shelved it fir now.
What is that orange one in the picture?
Thanks
 
The first version of Climbing Technologies’ Click Up, it holds very good, just rotate slightly and push in to release.
 
Brocky said:
I use the Sport mode of Fig. 8 use, put a bight through and then through the opened carabiner, an extra wrap around the carabiner gives a lot of friction. A brake bar and Click Up used the same way.
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Brocky, what’s that hitch on the 8? Looks like it would tend well the way you have it looped over 8 and tied.


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They are all Michoacáns, they tend by themselves, but the knot behind improves the hand tending.
The one on the right below started as a girth hitch on the top of the Eight, with the stopper knot on top, helps with breaking. Then saw the rope included in the girth might improve the tending. It’s not a girth hitch now but works very good.
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