Radium Release Hitch

Radium Release Hitch How To:

The RRH is one of the more complicated ties which combines hitches bights and knots but it is very ingenious and used in multiple rope situations.

Ingredients:
1 3.3 meters of static 8 mm cord
2 locking biners

The Steps
1) tie a figure 8 or overhand on a bight at the end of the 8 mm.
2) Clip that into a locking carabiner with the loop next to the spine.
2) loop through the second carabiner, back through the first, and then up again to the second,
3) Complete with a Münter hitch next to the gate of the second carabiner. The MH should be on the anchor side of the tie.
4) Conduct a standard tie off with a half hitch on a bight around the three strands keeping it snug to the MH.
5) Secure the half hitch with an overhand on a bight wrapping the 3 strands.

Results
A load-releasable 3:1 hitch that you can use between a pulley, passing a knot or untensioning a locked lowering device or locked up prussiks.