We found a Ropeman1 with ribbed teeth.  It broke the dynamic rope at 4.95kN, less than the micro traxion.  https://www.instagram.com/p/CoObDl9pntX/.
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Would love to see how the Petzl ASAP fall arrestor stacks up as far as desheathing and catching a shock load.

Imo a purposeful quickie adds to your effectiveness. Seeing that Grigri was very interesting. Bravo.

Love seeing sketchy Andy in videos. His mom, Lynn was my art teacher and play director in middle school! So cool seeing him still in one piece.

Hell yeah Ryan! Bring in the Arborist vids lol.

It would be nice to see how those devices are doing in icy conditions. I have CT rollnlock without sharp spikes (like the Gibbs in this video) because it meant to do well with ice on the rope.

Ryan, what about the Climbing Technology Roll'n'Lock? It has a very different cam/ridges than the Microtraxion, and seems a very good choice as a progress capture device, maybe you could test it out in this scenario as well? I know a few people who use it for rope soloing

Would be super curious about the petzl Tibloc

Add the clips channel to your "channels" section on youtube

That Gibbs looks like a lanyard adjustor

This is such a good video for all the people that argue about rope solo devices!

Really nice videos!
Appriciate it, especially the arborist ones.
Cheers from a hungarian arborist from Switzerland!

Thanks again for doing arborist tools!

Mix of short and long-form videos is my preference. Good stuff!!

You should definitely add the clips channel to your "Channels" tab on the main one!

I remember an old video, done in England if I recall, that tested industrial fall arrest devices in a drop tower. They all failed, and then they tested an old style Rescucender, and it was the only one to pass, but it is not a fall arrest device! a distinct problem with the Rescucender is dirty rope. Once the cam starts to wear, that nice radius on the rope contact undulations becomes a sharp edge. Good news, bad news: its very easy to inspect, but its a judgement call for when to replace. Other bad news, Petzel bought the design from Rock Exotica, the original maker. Petzl has come up with a replacement with captive mechanics, but an inferior rope path. Petzl did not relinquish the rights to the old design, so Rock Exotica can not make them under their own name.

The gri gri was quite good! Even at that good failure number, it still holds and only slowly slips. Not gonna lie, glad I used the grigri for so long.

curious about the "CT roll n lock", which has ridges, but a bit sharper than the gibbs

still would love to see a comparison to the ct rollnlock! please and thank you!

This is random and you’ve probably already tested it, but I’d be interested in seeing what a Connecticut tree hitch breaks/slips at. Also a surgeons knot with dyneema around a tree would be sick. Keep up the good work, your videos are awesome!!