So that is what the thing is called, I use these when climbing trees and working on high buildings on the farm. I made a longbow with a strong enough pull to shoot a heavy arrow (a piece of an old broom handle with PET-bottle wings on the back) attached to a nylon line used to pull the safety line over/through whatever I happen to need to fix. Thus far I have not had the misfortune to test the efficacy of the 'screamer' but I'll be sure to scream if I ever have to.

Lol, don't tell people how to take their drugs. There are interesting things to be found at the edge.

Live and let live, it's just not for me anymore.

I would have thought a screamer is a climber on the fastest possible descent.

That's sort of where the equipment got its name I think.

Looks like it's a device for preventing the fastest possible descent by eating itself during a fall. First example I could find involved a little yelling.

Yeah, by the time you're hitting that equipment, you are most likely already screaming :)