Self advancing Blake's hitch keeps jamming after 10 or so feet?

[Chsonnu]

To self advance a VT hitch, do I need to buy the DMM hitch climber or will my current micro pulley suffice?

 

[sac-climber]

You can use your pulley....you just clip the working in on one biner and your pulley setup on a second one. If its a fixed pulley you can squeeze your termination knot between the cheeks and run the system off a single biner.

Sorry the other set up didn't work out so well...I think you'll be better of with a closed system though, split tail is becoming a dated system.

 

[Chsonnu]

You can use your pulley....you just clip the working in on one binder and your pulley setup on a second one. If its a fixed pulley you can squeeze your termination knot between the cheeks and run the system off a single pulley.

Sorry the other set up didn't work out so well...I think you'll be better of with a closed system though, split tail is becoming a dated system.

Thanks for your help. I'm still going to buy a few other prussik cords to see if I can the blake to work.

 

[Chsonnu]

I think I figured out why the blake was jamming; it's because I didn't have a rope bridge. When you use the D rings on the leg straps, after a pull, the standing end has a tendency to elevate a few inches above the running end, which causes the micro pulley to maintain constant pressure against the hitch before and after the pull. When I attached a rope bridge (really a quick link), the standing and running end of the saddle maintained alignment which caused the micro pulley to drop an inch or two after a pull. That inch or two drop apparently gives the hitch enough breathing room to not jam.