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I've wanted to build one since Tom's bridge day FJC. anyone know how to build one properly?

I was looking for...

*bump*

I got a PM from someone else that was interested in making one, so I figured I'd give it a bump.

anyone have the specifics for building a pendulator?

I saw a nifty picture/drawing for packing in enclosed spaces with a hook in the ceiling... i know there's someone out there bored enough to do that with a pendulator.

For the design I know you need a dynamic climbing rope, 2 or more slings (more if they're not big enough to wrap around the tree and be binered), 3 carabiners, a belay device, 2 harnesses and a chest harness, and a couple trees that are close enough and tall enough.

If you have all of that and already know how to belay, you should be able to figure it out.

This is the kind of thing that could be designed a million different ways. Be creative and make sure you figure out safe ways to test it if you're not sure it's built right.

Edit to add: I left out a few things from the tools for the top idea. You also need stuff to secure the chest harness to the regular harness, biners or slings and biners. And I suggest you weight the harness first to make sure everything is going to be comfortable.

ha ha... you're funny... already know how to belay...

I'm not sure if that was sarcastic, like you think everyone knows how to belay, or if you are saying you don't know how to belay? Or maybe you don't think belaying has anything to do with a pendulator?

opps... i'm really bad at conveying emotion in text...

I meant it as a... "yea right... i have no clue on earth how to belay or what half those tools were"

I've found that pulleys are very useful in reducing wear on the rope.

Did you use a pulley when you rigged it up for us or is that a new addition? Good idea either way.

I honestly don't remember. My current setup uses 2 lines (close together, so that they don't stabilize the launch if you have a side to side rotation) with a pulley on each. It evolves almost every time I set it up, and I don't recall what state it was in when you were on it.

i once saw a pendulator in Lysebotn in a video. i wonder if all of your pendulators are of such small dimension.

what are the dimensions of your pendulators?

The one in Lysebotn is something like 30-40 feet high, and you slide for a while down the ropes. It took me like 40 tries instead of the normal 3 to fix my crappy exits. I was way too head high on my first Kjerag jump, I ended up rolling up the windows with my arms and sit flying for the first 4 seconds. Elin said I should have just continued the rotation into a gainer. I got back in the pendulator the next day, and all the rest have been good since. I heard the record for pendulator exits there was around 80, and the guy never jumped. I was wondering if I was going to set a new record.