automatic lowering system for infinite(100m) prussking

[mikem]

No, I can't see the video, but think he's looking for a system where you don't have to stop to adjust every move.

 

[Leclused]

No, I can't see the video, but think he's looking for a system where you don't have to stop to adjust every move.

That is the case here, if you have fe 5m height you climb 5m and then you lower yourself by using the gri-grii/simple/stop and start Climbing again. Not really automatic but almost and when you use a gri-gri you lose almost no time.

You don't need a 2nd person to help you.

 

[Leclused]

Why would you want to pruissic 100m more than once?
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Training for expeditions

 

[Ian Ball]

Carry a heavier bag?

 

[andrewmcleod]

I suspect speed at rebelays etc. is more important than sheer pitch climbing speed. It takes around six hours to climb 550m(?) of primarily pitches out of WUG Pot in the Dachstein (with one bit of meander that probably takes 20 minutes or so?), so averaging around 1.5 metres per minute - not particularly quick!

 

[Leclused]

Hope you can see these clips

https://www.facebook.com/pierrot.clemens/videos/10158110028539002/

System set-up
- 100m rope is going through two points at a certain height about 1.5m to 2m between the two points
- at the first point you guide your rope through a pulley
- at the second point you guide you rope through a crab (deviation)
- you start Climbing at the end of the rope under the attach with the pulley
- you attach your descender (or gri-gri) on the part of the rope below the deviation
- I would use a Gri-Gri instead of petzl simple to avoid the locking manipulation
- if you've climbed  up to  first point you lower yourself by using your desceding gear

Maker of the clip has posted it now on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4O7EmLC2I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1HiUsI0QUjOULQGif0-nwi1yRLxR-RpTsqv_2OZfmYPnd3Y8GWs69viPI

 

[Chocolate fireguard]

Carry a heavier bag?

A pulley on a tree branch, with a rope passing up over it and down to a descender fastened to the base of another tree.
The descender would need to be set so that it slipped when a weight equal to you plus a heavy tackle bag was on the rope. If the descender was a rack this could be done by trial and error with a pair of small metal rope clamps under the bottom bar. Or devise something with a screw thread to allow easier adjustment.
A length or 3 of 12mm bungee (eBay) passing from your central maillon to an anchor in the ground below you to act as the tackle bag, so that after you had taken a few upward steps the increased force pulled rope through the descender, and then (hopefully) stopped as the bungee stretch decreased.
Might work. Might not.

 

[glyders]

I can see the point of getting the exercise. However, much better would be a static (releaseable for emergencies) line and keep going up and down, never touching top or ground.