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laplaya
Oct 2, 2001, 3:59 AM
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I am looking for the best way to get a very hard knot out of a static kermantle rope.
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rrrADAM
Oct 2, 2001, 4:19 AM
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Use a LARGE ice pick, just be carefull to keep the point from piercing the sheath.
rrrADAM
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compclimber
Oct 8, 2001, 11:02 PM
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Is it a figure 8?
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laplaya
Oct 9, 2001, 1:13 AM
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the icepick was good advice. I also would sugest a vice on the rope, since it helped and was knot damaging. thanks
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rrrADAM
Oct 9, 2001, 3:00 AM
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I don't think the vise, or any other metal device that will crush the rope would be such a good idea.
I usually work a biner into the knot to loosen it up when I'm out and about.
rrrADAM
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laplaya
Oct 10, 2001, 5:05 PM
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I agree with that, if it can be avoided. this rope was shock loaded with a very large load, and being 1/2 in. static. it was frozen stiff and pulled too tight to budge.
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rck_climber
Oct 10, 2001, 5:39 PM
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I don't know, but do you really think the vise would hurt a static line? I realize it could serious injure a dynamic, but didn't think it would do any harm to a static.
Mick
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deed
Oct 10, 2001, 8:20 PM
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Try cutting like they did in Vertical Limit. That movie was awesome. I use everything they did in that movie and it really works. Last night I cut my dad loose.
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laplaya
Oct 13, 2001, 5:57 PM
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umm...deed, I believe that was a dynamic rope they cut in Vertical Limit.
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paulc
Oct 13, 2001, 9:44 PM
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Dude, I think deed was kidding.
Paul
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dovaka
Oct 22, 2001, 5:25 AM
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i really really hope deed was kidding but you could just cut the rope in 2 depending on how far the knot is from the end
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paintinhaler
Oct 22, 2001, 6:25 AM
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i never got how they even fell the people above them in that movie. It gives people the wrong idea about climbing jest like all the movies that have climbing in them. Some one dies at the start and it goes on from there.
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rrrADAM
Oct 22, 2001, 6:28 AM
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I think some gumbies above them started the whole chain of 'movie events'.
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