Climbing Tools: The Carabiner Brake

[f4stfl33t]

@skrim 923 & @ abjrev its called the mumter hitch its great to us if u lost ur belay or reppel device! has many uses as lower people belay a climber or in hoisting loads wath mikes video about the munter

[bigphiltheshootist]

Cilantro!!!!!!!!!!!!! Add me to notes.

[detectiveinspekta]

Whats happening a 6.56?I Is there video about it?

[TurtlePurple09]

Cool video 

[ram4590]

so canadian tacos are a whole different thing from mexican tacos I guess. I will always remember the cultural shock of seeing my first non-mexican taco.

Your salsa does look great, and the ingredients you have up there shock me.

If you can find them, try out green tomatoes (smaller, weird looking tomatoes). Cook 'em up by them selves and then mis them with whatever you can think of.

Enough practice will make you a master.

Greetings from Mexico. Greetings from a fan

[mikebarter387]

@ram4590 You the problem with Mexicain food when ever I am in mexico it doesn't taste like mexicain food. Maybe next time I'm down there I will try pancakes with maple syrup do a bit of a comparison test. Glad you enjoy the vids

The Mike

[ram4590]

@mikebarter387

You're actually not the first Canadian who says exactly the same thing to me.

Trust me, you do not want to try what we try to pass as "maple syrup", so that is a very good point.

[cantsolvesudokus]

nice video concept

[skibum923]

when the army taught me to repel in a swiss seat we would create our brake by dropping the rope into the biner, then looping it back under and over the top then dropping the strand back into the biner. I don't know what it is called but would you ever suggest using this method?

[abjrev]

@skibum923

I learned the same thing in ROTC and I personally would never recommend doing it. It just puts too many twists in the rope and after about ten people rappelling, the rope looks like a slinky. Also, it heats up the carabiner a ridiculous amount. I don't know if the heat will have any effect on it, but I avoid putting my gear through that type of stress.

[mezzanodalaghetto]

nice shirt lol

[dudgunner]

I don't care what they say. I like the shirt.

[lvscan]

Hi Mike,

In this video about the carabiner brake, you talked about a why you should not use a double munter being used as a brake.

In one of your earlier videos you talked about a Monster Munter. Are these the same thing? If so, you mention that the extra wrap in the Monster Munter negated all twist that was imposed in the rope from a regular munter. Wouldn't this be true if you were to use it as a break?

Thanks for the advice!

Luke in Vegas

[werdnativ]

No, a "double" munter means both strands of the rope... we're talking about rappelling here, right?

Cheers,

Andrew in Squamish

[lvscan]

OK cool. Thanks Andrew. Yes we are talking Rappelling. I am very new and learning quite a bit from Mike and the rest of you guys. Thanks for taking the time to help and answer my questions.

I understand what a double munter is now using both strands of rope.

How about in an emergency situation, can you rappel on a single strand using a monster munter, or is that only to be used as a belay device?

Thank you,

Luke in Vegas

[mikebarter387]

Werdnative got to you before I did. His answer is right. You certianly could use the Monster Munter on a single strand if you were tieing off the rope and rapping to the ground in an emergency and not worried about getting your rope back. . Would work quite well in fact as it would prevent a lot of twisting as you came to the end of teh rope. Biner brake would work also mat add a third Brake biner though

[mikebarter387]

Luke we do not use the monster as a belay but as a lower only and as a few others pointed out it would make a great single rope rap.

[koepkeca]

Thanks for the demo and the salsa recipe!!

[moomee237]

What do you call a climber without a girlfriend?....

Homeless.

[RivenrockGardens]

Great salsa recipe, and I also add corn, sweetens it. Can't do it without cilantro for sure. But also, add cumin, and cactus, and canned black beans. These all add different flavors that put such 'zest' into it. Nice videos.

[edwyrd]

Love all of your vids, how about a vid on what you do to stay in shape for climbing?

I appreciate all your work, Thank you.

[zlobber]

wearing a "I fight like a girl" t-shirt and showing your "gun hand" is funny

[nickgmoney]

Cool recipe. After i try the biner brake im going to make some salsa ;)

[6kuku9]

on the subject of wiregates - I've always understood that it's ok to use them for the brake bar as it's only the back bar that's stressed, but you can't use them for the main body as they won't take a loading across the gate - also have never seen a brake constructed using doubled krabs - but you don't get much friction from singles so I suspect your way has just become mine :)

[mikebarter387]

Your right about the wir gates. I just didn't want to get into it at that level.

Thanls though

the Mike

[mikebarter387]

Going to add your comment as a annotation as it is worth mentioning

[6kuku9]

I'm honoured! - thanx

[zlobber]

You should make a video about Dulfer rappel too

[6kuku9]

Thanx for the recipe - never seen a chipotle pepper - any ideas what would be a substitute - given that I live in England?

[mikebarter387]

Tough one. The salsa will still turn out fine without the chipotles. I was in Bedford england and made this for My wifes relatives with local ingredients. Don't think I could find Jalapenas either. You folks also have a very limited choice of corn chips. You would think that somebody somewhere has them. No real substitute for these, powerful smoky flavour from a pepper the Aztecs couldn't tame

[lvscan]

I can't wait to make the salsa Mike. Thanks for the awesome recipe. I guess we'll finally put that slap chop TV infomercial thing we got a while back to use.

[fearthespeed]

First!