jomoco
Tree Freak
Ok guys, here's an opportunity to improve our bag of tricks by helping an American carabiner company design a new bodyline re-direct carabiner.
I'm sure all the pro climbers here have at one time or another used a nylon loop strap with a carabiner to create a bodyline re-direct when working large wide trees, it's a neat trick that enhances a climbers safety and stability aloft.
This neat trick unfortunately has an annoying drawback directly related to the two upper support body lines abraiding against each other within the carabiner itself. Now my trick to avoid this annoying and power draining friction is to use two carabiners on the nylon loop strap with a single wrap on the redirect support wood. This way each upper bodyline has its own carabiner and no friction or binding between the two upper lines occurs making climbing on a redirect a pleasure rather than a pain.
In my opinion a custom carabiner designed specifically for use as a climbing line re-direct would sell well in the arborist and recreational climbing market.
The design of the biner itself is very simple, take two typical biners lay them down in front of you with the gates facing outward horizontally, that's what the new re-direct biner should look like, a single biner with gates on each side and the vast bulk of its structural support coming vertically straight down the middle with a captive eye on the top, rightside gate for one rope, leftside gate for the other, and the main center structural support member effectively separating the two ropes eliminating unnecessary binding.
I have spoken with the lead design engineer at this American company in the PNW, and he was very receptive to the concept and requested I send him a few basic design drawings to go over with his design team.
All I have on my computer is a very crude paint drafting software program to work with at home.
So I figured that any of you climbing pros here that actually understand what I'm trying to do here, and actually think it might be an excellent addition to the professional bag of tricks, this is an excellent opportunity to take an active online role in designing a carabiner for an American manufacturer.
My computer skills suck, and I know a few of you guys are pretty dang adept at climbing and computer drafting.
Let's see a few designs that I can forward to the great PNW!
What about you Ekka? Do you want to get involved in a little yankee innovation to improve our industry internationally?
jomoco
I'm sure all the pro climbers here have at one time or another used a nylon loop strap with a carabiner to create a bodyline re-direct when working large wide trees, it's a neat trick that enhances a climbers safety and stability aloft.
This neat trick unfortunately has an annoying drawback directly related to the two upper support body lines abraiding against each other within the carabiner itself. Now my trick to avoid this annoying and power draining friction is to use two carabiners on the nylon loop strap with a single wrap on the redirect support wood. This way each upper bodyline has its own carabiner and no friction or binding between the two upper lines occurs making climbing on a redirect a pleasure rather than a pain.
In my opinion a custom carabiner designed specifically for use as a climbing line re-direct would sell well in the arborist and recreational climbing market.
The design of the biner itself is very simple, take two typical biners lay them down in front of you with the gates facing outward horizontally, that's what the new re-direct biner should look like, a single biner with gates on each side and the vast bulk of its structural support coming vertically straight down the middle with a captive eye on the top, rightside gate for one rope, leftside gate for the other, and the main center structural support member effectively separating the two ropes eliminating unnecessary binding.
I have spoken with the lead design engineer at this American company in the PNW, and he was very receptive to the concept and requested I send him a few basic design drawings to go over with his design team.
All I have on my computer is a very crude paint drafting software program to work with at home.
So I figured that any of you climbing pros here that actually understand what I'm trying to do here, and actually think it might be an excellent addition to the professional bag of tricks, this is an excellent opportunity to take an active online role in designing a carabiner for an American manufacturer.
My computer skills suck, and I know a few of you guys are pretty dang adept at climbing and computer drafting.
Let's see a few designs that I can forward to the great PNW!
What about you Ekka? Do you want to get involved in a little yankee innovation to improve our industry internationally?
jomoco
