Version A
Version B
Version C
Version D
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I acquired my Wild Country Single Rope Controller, Version A from Ragged Mountain Equipment in 1994.
My Wild Country Single Rope Controller, Version A is 104 mm. tall, 53 mm. wide, 29 mm. thick, and weighs 86 g. It consists of two 4.0 mm. aluminum plates separated by three 12.7 mm. diameter, 16.1 mm. long bollards. Round Allen machine screws hold it together. Each plate has an irregular slot for an HMS carabiner.
The front plat has a sticker with a rigging illustration. The rear plate is stamped with "428," "WILD COUNTRY," the Wild Country logo, and "MADE IN ENGLAND."
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Wild Country Single Rope Controller is rigged by inserting a bight
into the right side (as shown) of the controller, and clipping
an HMS carabiner through the slots and the bight. The HMS is anchored
appropriately. Rope is fed by turning the Controller horizontally.
During a fall, the Controller is pulled into the orientation shown
in the photograph, and the HMS carabiner is pulled to the side,
wedging the rope between the carabiner and the two lower pins.
The Single Rope Controller is similar to the Camp
Yo-yo, but does not have the V-slot that was added to the
Yo-yo.
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I acquired this Wild Country Single Rope Controller, Version B from Jameson Riser in 2023.
My Version B is 105 mm. long, 63 mm. wide, 30 mm. thick, and weighs 89 g. It consists of two irregular 4.0 mm. aluminum plates separated by three 12.7 mm. diameter, 16.0 mm. long bollards. Round Allen machine screws hold it together. Each plate has an irregular slot for an HMS carabiner.
The front plate is and the inside of the rear plate are stamped with "SRC," "WILD COUNTRY," the Wild Country logo, and "BRITAIN." The rear plate has a sticker with a rigging illustration.
Version C has a longer carabiner slot than Version A. This makes feeding the rope somewhat easier.
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I acquired my Wild Country Single Rope Controller, Version C from Mountain Tools in 1999.
My Version C is 105 mm. tall, 64 mm. wide, 29 mm. thick, and weighs 87 g. It consists of two irregular 4.0 mm. aluminum plates separated by three 12.7 mm. diameter, 16.0 mm. long bollards. Steel round-head machine screws hold it together. Each plate has an irregular slot for an HMS carabiner.
The front plate is stamped with a rigging illustration. The rear plate is stamped with "AAP," "SRC," "WILD COUNTRY," the Wild Country logo, and "BRITAIN."
Version C was sold with its own HMS carabiner that features a strange plastic lock that when used properly almost always guarantees that the carabiner does not open accidentally (although someone will find a way, so be careful). More important, the plastic lock helps keep the carabiner oriented properly. I prefer not to carry extra do-dads on serious climbs, but for "is-neither climbing" (i.e., sport climbing) it seems to work reasonably well.
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I acquired this Wild Country Single Rope Controller on eBay from Maria Nasif in 2025.
My Version C is 106 mm. tall, 63 mm. wide, 29 mm. thick, and weighs 109 g. It consists of two irregular 4.0 mm. aluminum plates separated by three 12.7 mm. diameter, 16.0 mm. long bollards. Stainless steel round-head Allen machine screws in the front and a riveted post in the rear hold it together. Each plate has an irregular slot for an HMS carabiner.
The front plate is stamped with a rigging illustration. The rear plate is stamped with "AAP," "SRC," "WILD COUNTRY," the Wild Country logo, and "BRITAIN."
Aside from the method of holding the rear plate to the bollards, Version C and Version D are identical. It is not obvious why Version D weighs 25 percent more than Version C. Really, this is not an error on my part. The two plates have the same material, thickness, shape and dimensions, and the bollards have the same diameter and give the same plate separation. The switch from steel to stainless steel screws would not cause such a weight increase. I assume that there is something hidden in the internal bollard construction (such as a stainless steel shaft) that increased the weight so much, but I have not disassembled mine to verify this hypothesis.
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