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Marduke wrote:You jam your croll up against a knot (that's joining two ropes for example) for example, how do you get if off rope without untying the knot? There is no way to get the croll's teeth unengaged to unjam it since you can't move it up rope to disengage.
Marduke wrote:You jam your croll up against a knot (that's joining two ropes for example) for example, how do you get if off rope without untying the knot? There is no way to get the croll's teeth unengaged to unjam it since you can't move it up rope to disengage.
It's not. And you should know how it's on, you were there :PMarduke wrote:Amy, you might have your croll connected backwards to the maillon.
Marduke wrote:You jam your croll up against a knot (that's joining two ropes for example) for example, how do you get if off rope without untying the knot? There is no way to get the croll's teeth unengaged to unjam it since you can't move it up rope to disengage.
Marduke wrote:Amy, you might have your croll connected backwards to the maillon.
Marduke wrote:It's not about unweighting it if jammed (you can do that in easily a number of ways), it's that if jammed beyond your ability to remove it from the rope, you have the option of disconnecting and abandoning it, or continue to attempt to unjam in a more workable position.
Ch33s3n1p wrote:I can think of a half dozen ways to unweight a jammed croll without having to use an extra screw link.
John Lovaas wrote:As this thread has continued, I was wondering- if something jams a Croll, shouldn't a caver be able to unweight it by standing up in their footloop, then wrestle and swear and tug and pull on the Croll until it gives?
Chads93GT wrote:I am simply having a hard tome wrapping my head around how a croll is getting jammed up so tight that it wont move or anything... can you guys explain how this is happening?
John Lovaas wrote: Your top connector to your Croll shouldn't be long enough and/or large enough to get sucked into the Croll, and there shouldn't be anything loose in the vicinity of the Croll gate that is thin/small enough to fit into the Croll gate at any point when it is moving along rope.
Sungura wrote:I'm trying to imagine the situation you describe...would a QAS of helped? I mean I have one, could you have still stood up in the footloops putting the qas high, hence weighting the qas and then had both ascenders unweighted?
PeterFJohnson wrote:A third ascender would have helped.
Tubo Longo wrote:That is in those kind of long and vertical cave where pits are alternating with tight crevasse-like passages and crawlways. Then you'd love to disconnect your Croll from the screw link between each pit, so that it doesn't bother you while crawling and squeezing for several hundreds yards at time, may be carrying or towing an heavy pack as surplus.
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