Originally Posted by letigre

however, recently i went to an arborcamp in brissy aus and a young arborist from perth botanic gardens named jordan, showed me a far superior set up. it consists of a petzel fixe pulley, spliced posion hi-vy, 8mm beeline prussick and a carabiner of your fancy. what he showed me was that you could feed one end of your prussick rope through the back of the fixe pulley and tie a stopper knot to prevent it from coming out. this allows you to have one end of the prussick attached to the carabiner, making room for your splice!

also i do use the vt now which i find to be marvelously slippery and responsive!