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How strong are prusiks?
Freddofrog
20-Jun-2016
5:38:47 PM
I think you guys are talking English but I have no idea what you are saying.

IdratherbeclimbingM9
26-Jun-2016
3:45:41 PM
On 20/06/2016 Stugang wrote:
>It's not that exciting but the story goes that ODH was at moonarie around
>Anzac Day with a young lady he wanted to get intimate with. So they shlepp
>up to top camp to deprive the universe of drinking water and get a bit
>of "alone time".
>
>First night under the stars just as ODH is making his move a bloody goat
>starts bleating which sorta kills the mood so no action night one.
>
>When they wake up it turns out there is a billy goat stuck on a ledge
>just above top camp. Damo wants to push it off the ledge to shut it up
>which goes down like a microwaved cane toad to his prospective conquest.
>
>
>That day is spent trying to coax the goat along an escape path to no avail.
>That night no action either with billy bleating and concern for the poor
>walking curry.
>
>So next day the blue balled hero rigs up a pulley system and rips down
>an enormous tree to build a bridge for poor billy. No luck cos billy is
>a mountain goat not a tree goat. Genius.
>
>The goat stays put all week meaning no love for hero.... But on the last
>morning billy is not there. Turns out he didn't need any help and walked
>off the way he came.
>
>I may have got some names wrong but other than that the above is more
>or less true.

At least that's a happier story from the Moon, than the last one that ODH was at...
(RIP PC).

IdratherbeclimbingM9
26-Jun-2016
3:57:10 PM
Original poster wrote;
>Given I've never come across anyone talking about this study, possibly because it's produced by a university geology department and not a climbing organisation, I thought I'd seek feedback.

Prusiks exceed the strength that they need to be for the task intended. They've been doing so for many years now and were suitable to task even back in the days of laid nylon, when the biggest issue was making sure the prusik 'lays' matched the climbing rope 'lays' during use!
;-)

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