Fulk said:
Hand jammer ? well, I don?t doubt that a Croll would work as a foot-loop jammer, but it is designed specifically as a chest jammer.
How dull am I? of course I got the names the wrong way around, I don't wear them the wrong way around, I just called the Croll a basic in the post above.
Fulk said:
One-inch webbing for foot loops has been discretided yeas ago, on account of the possibility of its getting jammed up in the Croll . . . and why on Earth was it running through an MR on the D ring?
Don't understand how it can get jammed in the croll, and now I don't use a home made footloop but a proper Petzl one, even if one person teased me for spending ?20 on a "dog lead".
But I am taking on the point of not running it through a mallion, I've always done that, nobody has ever picked me up on it, but thinking about it all the super fast people don't do that, and maybe nobody at all does that.
I'm too hurried to look for other quotes but....
After 3 years good use my sit harness is getting near the end of its days, I want something more comfortable for horizontal caving and something harder wearing.
Croll goes on D ring via a mallion because that might not be efficient but it is comfortable. The only reason for wearing croll as low as possible is to let you climb up as much as possible on a single stand up. When I'm comfortable I'm faster than when I am not. Also it means I can take off the chest harness without completely undoing the sit harness.
I've thought hard about having a third cowstail but at end of day it would be more hassle than benefit. Hauling would be easier, horizontal cavng harder because just another thing to get snagged in a tight place.
I do a fair bit of SRT above and below ground, my set up is always the same. Only once have I ever reversed the order of my cowstails and only on that occaision has something bad happened. It happened as I'd almost finished standing up so the rope was still travelling down the croll so the croll was loose on the rope, I'm trying to stand on two legs, the left foot holds because thats the Pantin, the right collapses because the footloop failed, so I guess I jerked sideways just as croll is opening to let the rope pass, thats why one must always have a cowstail or safty cord on the Basic.
Never before or since have I noticed any wear on my footloop after a days caving or practicing.