version 0.1 experimental 2TC rappel rig I pieced together and actually demoed in the woods tonight. (I had an alpine butterfly tied below the gri gri and delta link was not upside down). Climbed a limbless slight leaning basketball maple with rough bark just to about 12 ft. Definitely set your tethers on the low side of the tree.
Used some REI accessory cord I had lying around for the long thigh loop prussic, and left the distel there to help as a stop knot. (I usually hunt from it, rappel with figure 8/auto block)
Took awhile to get the hang of it, and get the foot and thigh loops where I wanted them. By the end I was doing 1 foot per move, 2 moves a minute. Not very fast but worth it to avoid dragging sticks,especially since I had to crawl under jagger bushes to access this spot. Other than the grigri, was quiet. As others have said, any more than 1 foot moves , you’re making noise, using too much energy, putting too much slack in the system.
I wanted to stay in the grigri so I could rappel out of dodge if anything went wrong, but will use a tended friction hitch next time, then figure 8 rappel. (I always go back to this) the grigri always wanted to slide down when Unweighted, and noisy as heck.
The bits I picked up from [mention]always89y [/mention] worked great. Got the thigh loop and boot loop. I will experiment with and without these in the off-season, I’m thinking I won’t need thigh loop as I get better on smaller trees.
It was super smooth deploying the ROS from the top of the climb.
Changes will be as follows:
1. Lose the grigri, use the tended distel.
2. Learn to tie a beefier stop knot to hold the delta link, or a rubber washer.
3. Beef up the tether handles like [mention]Redbeard [/mention] setup, or just paracord the tenders.
Goal of this step was to see if this is viable for next season. I think with practice, it will be. Just need a hand ascender, and I’ll be srt preset/2TC next season.
Still pretty new here, so feel free to make other recommendations. Cheers.
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