FP03400 Folding Grappling Hook with Black Cord, Midnight Black

No it's not titanium alloy or military-grade aircraft aluminum, but it works. The rope is garbage for climbing but you can use it for something else, and I got some good rope for pretty cheap at Home Depot. This hook works well--just don't throw it too hard against a hard surface as it may bend a bit. If you're going to be doing toss-and-climb with it, I recommend wrapping the hooks in a layer of cloth so as to reduce the shock on the hook if it makes a sharp impact (and to reduce noise!)All in all, a good, cheap, fun little tool. I've scaled a few different buildings with it. I do recommend tying 'rungs' every 2 feet or so in your climbing rope to make it easier to climb.

I had the exact same style/look/construction folding grappling hook as a child, and everyday was an adventure. I would carefully retrieve the grappling hook from the hiding space in our crawl space, as my mother had no idea I possessed such an amazing device! I would then take it out into the small patch of woods behind our house, and attempt to grapple a tree limb, in order to climb up. Oddly enough at ten years of age, you really have zero upper body strength, and I rarely got the hook more then ten feet above my head. If anything, watching countless iterations of "American Ninja" starring Michael Dudikoff, I felt as though I had learned nothing. Long story short, I'd usually end up climbing the thirty odd foot tree, attaching the grappling hook to a well placed limb, and then sliding down the rope. All in all, I was surprised I didn't kill myself a handful of times.Fast forward to the present...I don't have a child responsibly old enough to enjoy the dangers and excitement of owning a grappling hook (my kid is three months old). So I bought my ADD fueled nephew one! He's eight, and very mature for his age, minus the boundless energy that flows out of him like retarded hot lava. His mom (my sister), is a single mother (bless her soul) and between working and finishing her doctorate degree... I thought she could use a break! Grappling hooks to an eight year old is a Leap n' Learn to a three year old, it practically raises the kid itself!!Long story short: nephew loves the grappling hook; he's been grappling the crap out of everything; it's strong enough to support his massive 65 pound body of badassery; and his mother wasn't a complete douche and allowed him to keep it! Yeah cool mom!!I recommend this for any true adventurererer, or hardened battle tested ninja under 100 pounds.

First off, the Grappling hook works. But the rope is very slim and extremely difficult to grip if your not climbing a wall/tree. What worked best for me was to tie triple knots every 10-16 inches along the rope, so that you have something to grab as you climb. The rope is strong enough to hold me (90 lb. kid), which doesn't mean much, but it just feels weak when your yanking on it to see if it has grabbed something. But it does what I need it to do (climb walls,trees, etc.).Another thing is the "folding part". The hooks have to basically screw down into position, making it possible for them to become unscrewed, or folded. This can be an issue when you think it's lodged onto a tree branch. What is supposed to keep the hooks down and in place is a small spring, which is kept in place by a small nut. The nut can come off very easy, which allows the spring to pop off, which is very difficult to find when lost on the ground. When the spring/nut are off, there is a high chance of the hooks becoming loose, making it harder to grapple something.But despite those issues, it is a good product if you don't weigh very much. But a lot of other people said that they weighed about 185 and it broke for them.It works for me.Pros:It works. (only one, but extremely important)Cons:Rope feels weak.Doesn't truly fold.Rope is very hard to grip/climb.

The grappling hook is a pretty decent product for the price. I have no clue if would be effective in scaling a wall or whatever it is that Ninja's do, but it does work for latching onto debris in my pond and some pond dredging. I have noticed that other reviewers have found this to be a useful tool in yard work. I suspect that this product may be marketed incorrectly. A real grappling hook such as used by SWAT, etc. can cost over a hundred dollars and there does not seem to be anything in between a professional grappling hook and the Ninja grappling hook. As a niche product, it works pretty well.

first off the mural hook folds up so that both hooks are parallel to each other when you need to turn it into a bureau hug you simply screw it all the way up and then it locks the string is a little thin for my taste for climbing so I tie small knots in it to get a better grip it's got great lengths to it not that heavy is very well made I couldn't believe when it came the price that I paid for it it could easily have been 50 or 60 if I was looking for one of the flea market

The spring-and-nut attachment that makes this a "folding" grapple broke right away. Fortunately, I didn't need the "folding" feature for my purposes. I put a regular nut and a couple of washers on it and tightened it securely, so it worked. The rope supplied was very flimsy and I did not use it. In case you are interested, I needed to get a dead branch down from a cedar tree, and it was too high for anything short of a cherry picker truck. (Which I don't happen to own.) The branch wasn't attached to anything, it was just stuck in the interlocking cedar branches. I got the idea of using a grapple, but I didn't need a rock-climbing rated grapple. This cheap grapple worked. I used a very good strong nylon rope, after 6-7 tries of swinging the grapple and flinging it at the high branch, it caught hold. I tied the other end of the rope to my truck's trailer hitch and slowly drove away, and the grapple held and I pulled down the branch. If I ever need to use the grapple again, it will likely be for something similar. I doubt that the thing is strong enough for climbing. I think the only other possible use for this cheap grapple would be for a Halloween costume prop, but the pointy parts might hurt someone who is careless...

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