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Anonymous_Coward wrote:Step 1. Get a frog system.
Step 2. Wear it.
THE END
Scott McCrea wrote:IMO, the biggest issue with removing and donning vertical gear is to do it quickly. It should take no more than two minutes. Some can do it in about 10 seconds. Don't be the one we are waiting for.
CaverCSE wrote:I often get cold waiting on people who use frog systems in multidrops and have never been outpaced by a frogger, even if the drops are only 50ft to 80ft deep. I loved using my hybrid ropewalker in Rawhide Horror Hole which has 10 different drops with two of those drops being over 100ft deep (for a total cave depth of 630ft deep and length of roughly 1 mile or so) and some of the drops are in a waterfalls. *Note that the hybrid ropewalker I use is completely different then the store bought On Rope double bungee system which sucks at most anything other then big pits.
CaverCSE wrote:I stole most of the ideas from the single bungee ropewalker then combined it with more modern things like the frog styled foot ascenders. Then the biggest thing I did is spend a long time in Lowes determined to come up with a way to make a chest roller for cheap, without machining and, tiny. I finally did find a design that, so far, seems to work very well..
Here's a link to the pictures of the first version of the system I was playing around with.. I've changed a lot of things up since then but haven't taken pictures of the latest system yet... Things I added: standard cows tail, I now use a basic acender in place of the upper ascender too, the new petzl pantin can't really effectively be used anymore since petzl removed the lock off/emergency ascender hole to save weight or something(?), and most other people have been using a frog chest ascender with this system too.. You can use just about any ascenders as long as the knee ascender is backwords (a left hand ascender on your right knee/leg and vice versa) then just match the foot ascender to the direction of your other foot.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1132 ... 4861000241
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