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TENEX Eye & Eye Split Tail 

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Image courtesy SherrillTree
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User reviews

Average user rating from: 3 user(s)

Overall rating (weighted)
3.8
Type of Use
1.7
Frequency of Use
2.7
Durability
2.7
Technical Skill Required
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Safety
3.7
Strength
3.7
Portability
4.7
 

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Miko Del Giudice
Tenex - Great Beginner's Eye to Eye tail, Thursday, 13 December 2007

Written by Miko Del Giudice   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
4.7
Type of Use
3.0
Frequency of Use
4.0
Durability
5.0
Technical Skill Required
3.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Safety
5.0
Strength
5.0
Portability
5.0
I was interested to note the other experiences here - I have found Tenex to be one of the longest lasting and most dependable materials for an eye to eye tail.

Type of Use - I give it 3 for because I find it works equally well for both rec users and pros.

Frequency could easily be a 5 - but now I have tails of different compositions and I use them in rotation.

Durability - I have to give it a 5. I still have, and use, my first Tenex tail from 1993 that I used almost daily for years. It is important to note that I rarely descend with the same config that I use to go up. I always switch over to a descender to come down.

Ease - one thing about Tenex - it's soft and feels great in your hand.

And I say it's great for beginners because it is the surest gripping material I have found. It's soft and pliable and grips instantly, for every hitch I have tried.

I have introduced a few novices to climbing. Just rigged them up, showed them "the ropes" (Slaying myself yet again) and supervised some low climbs. It's usually Tenex and a VT, complete with micro-pulley. Because I know there's NO WAY Tenex tied in a VT with a micro-pulley will ever slip, fail, or otherwise scare the individual with any kind of unpredictability. If you take your hands off it, it stops, guaranteed.

And I purposefully don't use it in some high-load climbing scenarious, like secure foot lock, because it hunkers down so tight that it's a little harder to advance than others that keep their roundness better. Tenex is too soft to keep roundness under load.

Desi says he likes tenex best for a lanyart prusik. I find that as a lanyard adjuster it grips a little too tightly. If I'm pressing my legs into the trunk and creating tension on my flipline, tenex gets so tight that sometime it takes two hands to let it out. Ultra-tech, which is what I like for my flipline adjusters, works well one-handed even under lots of tension.

Strength and durability - I have always used it for ascending and positioning, not for zipping down. And I have to give it excellent ratings.

Portability - it's nothing to begin with, and it stuffs down to less-than-nothing.
Last updated: Thursday, 13 December 2007

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Desi Mora
TENEX Eye & Eye Split Tail, Thursday, 13 December 2007

Written by Desi Mora   -  View all my reviews  - #1 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
3.2
Type of Use
1.0
Frequency of Use
2.0
Durability
2.0
Technical Skill Required
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Safety
3.0
Strength
3.0
Portability
4.0
I have used a Tenex eye&eye tail a few times. The first one I got from Sherrill a long time ago and was disapointed because it showed burned marks right away after the first use (even descending slowly). It was retired soon after that. Now I use one as a Lanyard prusik adjuster and it works great in that set up. It basically stays tied to the harness all the time. Recently I have used one Tenex split tail I made with Nick's assistance in Colorado with a Distel knot and it work ok but I am not very impressed with its performance. For more technical details read Nick explanations in the next review. There are other material alternatives for a split tail with better durability.
Last updated: Thursday, 17 January 2008

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Great, but be careful, Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Written by Nick Araya   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
3.5
Type of Use
1.0
Frequency of Use
2.0
Durability
1.0
Technical Skill Required
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Safety
3.0
Strength
3.0
Portability
5.0
Polyester eye-eye slings like this one or made of another polyester single braid (hollow braid) line can be quite convenient. However, they should be used with caution. If you like to burn out of a tree, you'll quickly ruin a polyester hitch cord.

Take your time if you are using this for your climbing hitch.

Polyester hitch cords make GREAT lanyard adjusters where they don't have to deal with the heat we subject climbing hitches to. It would also be good as the adjuster on an adjustable friction saver.

Make sure that both eyes have locking brummells. Some splicers like to do a locking brummell on one side, then a regular, non-locked brummell on the other eye.

Make sure the splice is lock stitched and that the stitching stays in tact.

Typically these slings are made of dyed rope, which is sort of out of the ordinary for recreational climbers, or to rock climbers moving to the trees. If you are concerned about what seems to be premature wear, make sure it's not just the "paint" wearing off. The color is a urethane coating that helps to prevent damage from the sun, dirt, etc.

love
nick


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