@Tanglerwr The Unicender is an awesome device, but the lanyard/prussic combo it is often sold with is not so cool. If you are using a daisy chain on the Uni in DbRT, try using a locking biner at the length you need for good hauling on the ascent. Once you want to move into limb walking or other more dynamic situations, shorten your connection to the Uni with any cheesy biner, leaving the locking biner in place. This gives you a quick switch-over from rope climbing into actual work.
I was testing it. The hitch was nowhere near failing, it just had creep in it. I discussed the creep with Sherrill Tree, they sent me the Uni for review, and we decided to try an extra loop and that solved the creep problem. The very worse that could happen was the hitch could slowly slip about a foot and hit the stop. No danger of it failing or me falling whatsoever.
Skip the lanyard/prussic combo and replace it with a good daisy chain. Metolius has a good one.
tomadamsenergy 2 months ago
@tomadamsenergy
The Uni was sent to me for review as is. I discovered this problem and an extra turn on the hitch solved the problem.
The daisy chain is an interesting idea though! I'll have to give that a try.
Tanglerwr 2 months ago
@Tanglerwr The Unicender is an awesome device, but the lanyard/prussic combo it is often sold with is not so cool. If you are using a daisy chain on the Uni in DbRT, try using a locking biner at the length you need for good hauling on the ascent. Once you want to move into limb walking or other more dynamic situations, shorten your connection to the Uni with any cheesy biner, leaving the locking biner in place. This gives you a quick switch-over from rope climbing into actual work.
tomadamsenergy 2 months ago
@tomadamsenergy
Sounds good!
Actually, I don't use the Uni much. I pretty much climb on a very symmetrical sit-stand frog because of the full body symmetry.
It allows me to control how I want my weight to divide up between my arms and legs. Maybe more legs one day, more arms the next.
I mostly climb for fun, exercise, and conditioning, so the frog sit-stand is just about perfect for me.
Tanglerwr 2 months ago
hey man, how bout testing your knots before you try climbing, hate seeing rookies hurt themselves..
bradirt1979 10 months ago
@bradirt1979
I was testing it. The hitch was nowhere near failing, it just had creep in it. I discussed the creep with Sherrill Tree, they sent me the Uni for review, and we decided to try an extra loop and that solved the creep problem. The very worse that could happen was the hitch could slowly slip about a foot and hit the stop. No danger of it failing or me falling whatsoever.
Tanglerwr 10 months ago