Pack Barreling

[mddat]

I bought a kifaru ultralight duplex a few months ago and have slowly been adding more and more weight to it during training hikes. I had 80 lbs of weight in it and noticed it was barreling pretty good. Im running 2 arrows per side but I'm wondering if going with some aluminum stays will help stop the barreling. I came from running a stone glacier and even thou I liked there system it just wouldn't stay on my hips when I got over 40 lbs in it. The kifaru fits me so much better and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

 

[LBFowler]

more rigid curved stays will make the frame sheet much less able to barrel in my experience. I have an old gen 1 duplex with the heavy al stays, and it is nearly impossible to barrel. I threw some arrows in to see how it worked and barreling was the first thing I noticed. Just like how you can only curve cardboard in one axis at a time, so too with the HDPE sheets. I think someone told me "sectional density" was the official description of what was going on.

 

[colonel00]

You can get 1/4" x 1" aluminum from a hardware store and fashion your own stays to see if it helps. These will be thinner than what Kifaru uses but a fairly cheap way to see if it helps before dropping $50 or $60 bucks on stays from Kifaru. Plus, the thinner stays are easier to form if you need to tweak the shape a little.

 

[hammer0419]

The UL frame does barrel with arrows. Aluminum stay helps a LOT! Because the frame sheet is so thin you just need to be eyeful when cranking down on the straps.

 

[N2TRKYS]

Pardon my ignorance, but what do y'all mean when you say that the pack is barreling?

 

[BroodBuster]

^^^

Instead of the two stays contacting your back you have gear "barreling" between the the two stays contacting your back instead. It's pretty uncomfortable.

Typically a bigger problem with Internal stays. I have to be careful packing my T1 to avoid this.

 

[N2TRKYS]

^^^

Instead of the two stays contacting your back you have gear "barreling" between the the two stays contacting your back instead. It's pretty uncomfortable.

Typically a bigger problem with Internal stays. I have to be careful packing my T1 to avoid this.

Ah. Thanks for the info.