healyje wrote:
sungam wrote:
nikmit wrote:
Petzl Shunt- it’s probably my fault here, but I couldn’t make one smooth rappel- either too fast, either too bouncy plus it weighs like a truck.
No, it's probably the fault of the shunt for NOT BEING A RAPPEL DEVICE.
Yes, the Shunt is one of the least understood and appreciated pieces of gear out there. It is possibly the BEST piece of gear on earth for rapping with loads or doing vertical work with loads. BUT, you have to know how to use one.
The best way I've found to use them is to put it directly on your belay loop with a locker and then put your rappel device above it on the belay loop, but at the end of either two, unextended and opposed trad draws or a single draw with lockers(
one or the other of those goes to the locker on your belay device). Once you have that configuration setup then hang your load or haul bag from the belay device locker - not your belay loop or any other attachment on your person. Make sure you extend the load down somehow so that it [securley] hangs with the top of it about mid-thigh level.
Manage and operate the rappel with the Shunt alone - just completely ignore the actual device you are rappelling on. Do that and rappels with 120 lb. loads are effortless, smooth as silk, and stopping to work and restarting require no energy at all.
Shunts friggin' rule.
