Petzl Stop or Simple

JefeBo55

Member
Sorry if this has been asked before!

What are peoples thoughts between a Petzl Simple or a Petzl Stop?

If used with a breaking krab is there a huge difference other than the stop has a camming action?

thanks
 

Kenilworth

New member
There have been several long and absurd arguments on this topic on UKcaving.

"Braking" not "breaking"

No, there are no important differences.
 

alastairgott

Well-known member
Probably the best thing to do is try them both. Tony Seddon's usually a good shout, he will be out in the Hope valley, Derbyshire on the 24th and 25th of November. https://www.starlessriver.com/news/?page_id=200

Otherwise, theres a few clubs that are dotted around where you might be able to ask a few people to have a go on their equipment. I know the YSS at Helwith Bridge have a good SRT wall, The Bradford Pothole club near Horten in Ribblesdale also have some SRT facilities.

I'm a member of the TSG in Castleton and we have an area where you can rig ropes from. So it might be an idea to pop over and have a go, we'll probably have a few members out with different devices.

If you don't want to be sold gear or prefer not to get involved with clubs, then another place you could go to is the Derbyshire Caving association who are holding some SRT events.
Now I look for the events I cannot find them anywhere online. But have found them in my emails.



I've tried to delete any events which have already happened, but have left most of the other stuff in there. (for some reason most of the C's have been turned into G's!

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Surface Navigation Workshop - Sunday December 2nd - places available This workshop is designed to introduce and improve navigation techniques useful to any outdoor enthusiast, especially cavers venturing to those more remote caves. We will look at map interpretation, compass work and micro navigation. This workshop is for anyone wishing to navigate themselves in remote areas.
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Ian Ball

Well-known member
Simple = bobbin descender / makeshift pulley / cheap /cheap parts / smoother descent / two hand control
Stop = autolock bobbin descender / makeshift pulley / good belay & releaseable device/ expensive / expensive parts / hand cramp on long pitches / rope glaze / panic can be deadly



 

mikem

Well-known member
Ian Ball said:
Stop = ... panic can be deadly

Although letting go of the rope on a simple will also have similar effect! In theory a stop will prevent you hitting the deck if you're knocked unconscious.

Mike
 

andrewmcleod

Well-known member
Personally I hate Stops as they often don't, but I don't like non-locking devices so I use the Rig (older model at the moment)... had no problems with some fairly horrific muddy ropes in the Dachstein (in fact, since you don't have to pull the handle the whole way, fast ropes are quite nice even with braking just through a Freino) although very occasionally at a rebelay you had to 'bounce' slightly to get the cam to engage, after which point it very rarely slipped (and an unlocked stop would just be sliding down the rope). By comparison, at times I had to push the cam on my hand ascender onto the rope most steps.
 

markpot

Member
Rigs are great,i use one daily at work.I think its a case of compatability with the rest of the set up.I have usesd a rig instead of a stop on my srt set up and found it abit awkward,many due to how low the central mallion sits.i found this had a tendancey to interfear with operation of the handle.Stop,Simple,Rack ect being more elongated and sitting slighly higher off the mallion i find work better.personal preference on which one of course.I use,a stop.
 

topcat

Active member
When rigging or solo I use a Stop.  Following some else's rigging I often use a Simple [Kong version].  Tight pitches I might covert Stop to Simple.
 

andrewmcleod

Well-known member
markpot said:
Rigs are great,i use one daily at work.I think its a case of compatability with the rest of the set up.I have usesd a rig instead of a stop on my srt set up and found it abit awkward,many due to how low the central mallion sits.i found this had a tendancey to interfear with operation of the handle.Stop,Simple,Rack ect being more elongated and sitting slighly higher off the mallion i find work better.personal preference on which one of course.I use,a stop.

I stick it on a quickdraw dogbone (the little tiny sling on a quickdraw) to extend it out a bit (albeit I have started backing this up with a bit of 5mm dyneema, which also helps prevent me dropping it...)
 

markpot

Member
Andrew,i dont know if you can buy them separately but titan climbing do a long mallion as part of there loweroff setup,might be a good subsitute for your dogbone.two different lengths that are substantially longer than any standard biners/maillions.might be worth  look if its a improvement to your set up?
 

JoW

Member
You may find that if you come to start rigging it is rather easier to protect yourself with a stop than a simple too.
 

mikem

Well-known member
Although when rigging you should always lock off a stop, the same as a simple, anyway...
 

JoW

Member
mikem said:
Although when rigging you should always lock off a stop, the same as a simple, anyway...

You should, although when rigging a traverse the usual recommendation is that you should tie a knot around a metre down the rope from the stop as a back up rather than locking it off as falling onto a locked off stop shock loads the rope at a rather higher force than one would wish for...
 

Alex

Well-known member
Problem with that idea JoW, although makes it safe is going to take a lot longer to do it like that. Falling onto my stop is always in the back of my mind, but the rope is normally as tight as I can make it meaning its a swing rather than a fall. It's unlikely most will do it like that if they have a long traverse to rig with wide gaps, because of the "faff".  It's loads of faff to rig travereses with a descending device anyway as you then have to adjust the rope length after reaching the next anchor (to account for the slack in the rope the stop/simple uses), unless you trust the anchor enough to clip directly into before tieing the next knot.  :doubt: I don't recommend that , I can think of a few accidents this has caused.

 

JoW

Member
I think perhaps you misunderstood what I meant... You tie a knot (overhand is fine) in the rope below the stop to back it up (doesn't take any longer than locking it off...) when you reach the anchor I would clip into the anchor and pull enough rope through the stop to tie the knot behind me avoiding the aforementioned adjusting afterwards. The stop will be looser but as you have your cowtail(s) in it is only a back up. If the bolts are close enough together you can of course omit the descender and just use cowstails clipped into the knot loops accordingly.

Using the knot in the rope below the stop means if you do fall on it you will fall a little more perhaps but it will be a dynamic shock load which is far preferable to the static shock load of a locked off stop.
 
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