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I hate 7/16 line, we dont wear gloves and that smaller harder line sucks to grip and work ... not my scene. Also the thinner line gets stuck in palm heads easier.
We predominantly do TD's so spiking and flipping is more common than prussicking up a tree.
I'm not into spliced eyes and gadgetry, more biners than you need, having two knots or two eyes of a french prussic plus the tail of my climbing line onto one biner, nah, not my scene.
I like to use climbing line for my hitches, it's readily available and cheap requiring just a knot.
I figure that many guys use this Euro idea coz they want to have a prussic that advances itself when they climb the line.
You know, it's been nearly 2 years since I used my pantin, that's how often I need to climb the line.
In global terminolgy, we're euc men and you guys seem to be more oak men. But in saying that Trev from Melbourne has 50% of his work as prunes, maybe he uses a french prussic or VT but here it's different.
I hope that answers your question.
