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majid_sabet
Feb 25, 2008, 11:34 PM
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onceahardman wrote: In reply to: If you look closely, the two main ropes are each attached to the power points by a cord tied around the rope in a prussik, looped thru the biner, then prussik'd onto the rope again. OK. Thanks. well it looks like if the prussiks failed, the load would be taken up by ? Can you tell what the coil of black rope is attached to? It doesn't look like its into all of the bolts
Let me help you boys out before you confuse yourself on this rig
This image came from climbing magazine on-line and it is for a highline. The two prussic are there as a tension overload indicators. At 8 kn each prussic will slip. There are four prussic there, two on each rope.
At 16 kn of tension per rope, prussic starts to slip which tell the guys on the other side that they are overloading the MA system and they should stop putting tension on the main line.
If you do not put the prussic there,you do not know how much you are pulling and when to stop on your MA.
(This post was edited by majid_sabet on Feb 25, 2008, 11:36 PM)
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Post edited by majid_sabet
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