Don't use for life support!

[@AnonymousOtters]

Props for making some of these small kits available to the community at absurdly low prices

[@rosschristensen4394]

I’ve been fighting that one for years you unraveled it in about 10 seconds thanks again for all the information. I love your station.

[@magnus6725]

Comment to keep this channel in favour with the algorithm, keep going hn2

[@retrohipster1060]

2$ and a whole assed video to go along with it. That's badass.

[@kimberlyglock7135]

I learn so much from you! I bow down and salute!

[@ajpedals7196]

I’ve seen a few forums recently discussing spliced HMPE soft goods for climbing such as dogbones, personal anchors, or even a system similar to BDs sewn anchor system. Any shot we can see some testing on those and the different splices they use?

[@bobbbobins]

The splices are strong AF and the testing has been done. I think it's more of a quality control and certification issue if people are splicing their own gear. For instance there's a guide from US Sailing on Dyneema / Spectra lifelines which references some testing. I say that as somebody who recently spliced lifelines for our sailboat, and now has a bunch of old dyneema lying around and I'm looking for applications where I need strong + light but nobody's life depends on it 😆

[@andrewv5104]

Do you want to break a bow string? I shot out my string and recently learned they are made from some sort of "proprietary UHMWPE".

[@fvdeddrift]

I'd be interested in that! I know the chemistry can make a difference in the general properties, but I bet bow string matierial has way less creep than yer typical UHMWPE/HMPE does for obvious reasons! Lol! GD, that's actually something I had never really thought about before! Hmmm, intriguing!

[@Pseudoswede]

8:39 Another technique I learned from fishing cable is to run your e-tape parallel to the joint, so as to not peel tape wraps in tight corners or bends.

[@clamsjog]

I love tutorials like this. 🖤

[@TknJn]

Worth fettling** the 2 edges of the W.H.A.C.K.ing hole in the Piton Hammer to a bigger radius so it is kinder to your dyneema? (**UK: abrade / file / dress away burr's sharp edges, or, the same to get an ill fitting assembly to mate)

[@andrewv5104]

I've had better luck with painter's tape. Working small HMPE really highlighted how not great electrical tape works. I usually left the painters tape on my "improvised fid" and made 40 continuous loops before i needed to replace the 3" of tape. Not to save tape it was just faster and easier to reuse than to retape.

[@MrTravis789]

When you were hammering out those pitons it gave me the worst, "You're gonna lose an eye!" anxiety.

[@tylerduncan5908]

Thanks for teaching me how to whack it. (I don't climb at all i just like your videos)

[@NotEnoughKit]

Nice! I made one a couple years ago for my hammer, but never got around to using it. I think I used 3mm SK78, considerably less strong, but for this application, shouldn't be an issue.

[@winterroadspokenword4681]

This is a great video. I do imagine a chain or wire rope would create a better shockload on the pin? How good is dyneema comparitively?

[@BushCampingTools]

Great video as always

[@corbindallas3220]

That’s a nice 😎 amount of petons my guy.

[@johngo6283]

Superb vid as always. 😀

[@jcrotty18]

But is the WHACK functionally better for pulling pins? It's obviously lighter, smaller, compact, etc. You tested a peak force of ~9kN with the WHACK. How does that compare with a typical stranded wire funkness? How about with a grade 30 chain (i.e., an old timer I knew claimed chain pulled better than stranded steel cable?

[@seventimesseven273]

Im going to forge this hammer and send it to you for testing. Where can i send it to??

[@bertilbusch]

looks nicer if you taper it and put the two tapers in the same section of "cover", so as one tapers out and becomes thinner, the other deadend tapers in to become thicker. Overall the crosssection is close to constant

[@TheSturle]

How would it be to use a soft shackle to connect the W.H.A.C.K to the hammer?

[@mon0railbredpig]

Where is the description?

[@Buchstabensuppe75]

why doint you make a piton fall test? I can only find a video how much force it takes to pull out a piton straight out but not in the direction of a fall

[@ERICHOEHNINGER]

Why not use a big lever? like a 1.5m carbon fiber tube with a saw tooth in one side (to varie the leverage of the puling cable)

[@huntergibson9359]

you still need the hammer to place the piton. So if you are already carrying a hammer it and it works well for removal, why carry another piece of gear?

[@TknJn]

I Suspect the lever will not generate the impulse that really to overcome the 'micro springiness' and stiction of the piton in rock. CF impactor v's telescopic wrench / breaker bar for getting wheel nuts / bolts off.

[@travisweaver1805]

Parcel and serve the dyneema if you're worried about chafe (I've got my whole rig on my boat parcelled and served amsteel)

[@simonsimon9880]

Did you test a traditional steel cable funkness? What sort of forces will it generate, compared to the dyneema?

[@northmanlogging2769]

so totally not the point of this vid... but cable/wire rope, will almost always break where its swaged, or where its been spliced, ironically making the "farmers eye" splice one of the strongest eye splices... also known as a Flemish eye... only problem is the loose ends are not really secured, so they can unravel... the first bending point in the splice/swage being the weakest point, anyway most folks would never trust a "farmer" eye because its not "secured" but they do work incredibly well, just have to be careful with the loose strands unraveling

[@Sicnus]

Did you upvote? Did you sub yet? Come on folks! :) Thanks for the post Ryan! Where are my Nose videos? *hides*

[@stefanjacobsen246]

Is there a difference in the peak force you can generate when whacking with dyneema vs. steel cable?

[@MrJoebass702]

So affordable!!

[@ghostdog0424]

Will you be selling the dyneema by the foot?

[@pavlodeshko]

I've seen some very oldschool one. a ficking chain 😂

[@bkuker]

But the taper!!! ;)

[@NPC-fl3gq]

Can a funkness device take me down to Funkytown!? I'll show myself out now :(

[@kadmow]

- Another rope trick is making a single end Brummel eye splice - not so easy to do so with hammer installed... A Sewn brummel - or bury - after proof loading- is nearly invisible and almost "infinitely" bomber...

[@Nuttyirishman85]

What do you do when you go climbing? “I Whack it.”

[@Oclb]

Comment for exposure

[@TheRPhelps24]

Cover up! You don't want to get in trouble with the authorities!

[@magnus6725]

Funny ​@@TheRPhelps24

[@28636]

Comment for algorithm gods

[@TheRPhelps24]

This is a Reply for the gods?

[@TheUncleRuckus]

Uhhhh damn kids always WHACK it in my camper uhhhh

[@13J460]

Bro carries 15lbs of steel and is worried about 60 grams 😂 2:51

[@travisweaver1805]

Omgash, if you're going to do a splice do it right, taper it! Why do it good enough, when you can do it right? Bleh

[@sebastianflynn1746]

This thing will last no time at all, minimal effort is the name of the game.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

​@@sebastianflynn1746?

[@MrAlgy3289]

😂 Was thinking the same thing. Otherwise there's just a lump from the end in the dynema.

[@Axemanvan]

Why not just use paracord? A lot cheaper than Dynema

[@TheRPhelps24]

My guess is that paracord is too stretchy and absorbs the shock too much so you don't get as much force to pull the peton out

[@andrearea213]

Aren't most paracord diameters going to break below the max force he was funking at when tied in a knot?

[@thecatofnineswords]

As said at 4:00, just like nylon it stretches too much, and that'll absorb too much energy.

[@kadmow]

- you don't get the cool splicing shots... - mostly a joke - NB the dyneema is multiples of times (high) more expensive than accessory cord - yes wealerthan similarly sized also - and yes the tight "Kernmantle" construction is more difficult to splice (not impossible, but it is harder to get the outside into the inside... ...than 12 plait dyneema..

[@JoachimMilan1]

Wrong channel, you wanna go to First Class Amateur

[@brandonprince3026]

Comment for the algorithms gods 🙌🫶 thanks HN2!❤ super informational enough