AlasdairRoberts
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Can I just say a huge thank you to the two guys who helped me out of the Kingsdale master cave on Sunday after my chest jammer got stuck on the rope and I had to cut it. I am extremely grateful.
You're both stars. Thank you!No problem, glad we could help
Yes, I'm not sure what happened at all. It worked fine on a rope I rigged up at home afterwards, but I'm certainly wary of using it again.That is worrying, as it could create a major problem on bigger pitches. Did you take it home to investigate?
It's possible I guess. Even standing up in the foot loop so that all my weight was off it, I still couldn't release the rope out of it. Very strange.I wonder if a small stone, just the size of the gap between two teeth, got accidentally 'locked in' when you put it on, thus removing any potential movement between them and the rope? If it worked fine at home afterwards that discounts the twisted cam theory. Can't think of anything else.
Probably not. It has never done it before and worked fine afterwards. I may have just been operator error.Are you going to raise this with the manufacturer?
Assuming this is a rope from the streamway to the passage to Valley Entrance, then there wasn't one present when we went a couple of weeks before the above incident. Don't assume a rope will be in place, if doing a through trip and exiting from Valley Entrance. Doesn't take long to nip in with a rope of your own and check first.Is the in situ rope still usable?
There was 1 rope there 2 weeks or so ago.On the day of Alasdairs stickage there were two ropes on the climb at the back of the bridge. Actually it was one rope with two drops. Alasdair chopped one when he was stuck. Later that day I removed that short side and its now used on various digging buckets around the area. The second drop was left insitu and may still be there, but it was several months ago so there is no guarentee of that.