Bear Rope Pulley System

New system to hoist our food pack up the tree using 2 small pulley s and the same rope we used this year.

Bear rope pulley system.

If you re old hat at wilderness adventure save your. This plastic pipe serves three functions in our bear bag system. About 220 lbs keep in mind the rope is inside the biner so the real strength of the system is the strength of the rope and the limb you are tied to. If your food pack weights more than that you are eating too well and you need to share with the bear.

To lift the hook and top part of the pulley system up to the cable we tied a 40 foot string onto the hook and wound it around a 3 long piece of 1 diameter conduit pipe. Proceed to lift the weight by applying downward or lateral pressure on the rope. Now loop the rope back up through the top fixed pulley. A bear hang is an improvised system of cord sacks or bags and sometimes carabiners and pulleys used to suspend food in a tree primarily to protect it from black bears as well as from rodents especially in high use campsites and grizzly bears in select areas only.

It only helped a bit though. The working load for these ultra light pulleys is 1 kn. Pulley systems are used to provide us with a mechanical advantage where the amount of input effort is multiplied to exert greater forces on a load. 4 use a short piece of rope to tie the wall hauler to a tree a little above head high and route the loose end of the carabiner rope through the wall hauler.

They are typically used for hauling and lifting loads but can also be used to apply tension within a system such as in a tensioned line or tyrolean. Using a single rope system with that weight is a pain the ass friction on the rope and there s no point in throwing up multiple ropes for each bag so about two years ago my friends and i added a pulley to make things easier. Method to get the rope up the tree is the same ol. If you are new to camping in bear country and not very mechanically inclined this is a great starter kit.

Attach the rope first to the bottom of the upper fixed pulley then loop the rope down through the wheel on the moveable lower pulley. 3 now thread the rope with carabiner through the pulley and adjust ropes so the pulley hangs about 10 from the branch and tie off the pulley rope. Make sure the rope is fully seated into the grooves on the pulley wheels.