In reply to UKC Gear:
Has anyone used one in the field yet? It looks like it would only work were the anchor allows the system to hang in free space? I didn't read the fine details so maybe this is the idea .
like if the anchor was a pair of steaks on the top of a cliff/stack and the rope system was going to be on the ground once your abbing it looks like it might be hard to get it free'd up with the 8 pulls as the friction on the ground / edge would stop the rope from pull/retracting correctly .
I was thinking about a possible rope recovery system today that involves a well trained mouse equipped with a mouse size knife and a mouse size base jumping rig . Once you make it to the bottom of the ab he climbs the rope and cuts away the end of the rope . He/she would then base jump to safety , repack the base rig and be ready for the next pitch .
This would mean losing a slight bit of rope but I couldn't come up with a conceivable way of training a mouse to undo an anchor system .