Best Life Line Carabiner

[Houthakker]

Any suggestions on what the best life line carabiner might be for tying off to the double D's on your saddle? Do you recommend with or without a captive eye?

Any suggestion of the best place to buy one online? Thanks.

 

[ddhlakebound]

I use an aluminum rope snap for my lifeline, and a Petzl ball locker for my split-tail.

Several good places to buy online...

Baileys is a site sponsor, and should have them. Otherwise Sherril/Vermeer, or Wesspur...

 

[Jovary]

Yeah I primarily use rope snaps too, 1 on my line and the other on the split tail. But I only have 2 right now, so when I get into a spot where I have to tie into the tail of my line I use a Petzl Ball locking biner.

There are some people out there that still don't trust carabiners. Im currently working for a company that doesn't approve of them (Ooops!). If you don't trust them go with the snaps, otherwise make sure its ball-locking, D-shaped and make sure you have it set right when you tie in.

 

[oldirty]

personally i wouldnt touch a ball locking biner for my lifeline or splittail. something about the balls breaking out, dont know if they fixed it or not but i am not gong to find out.

triple action locking biner is just fine for that stuff. i like the rope snap on a flipline but not on my belt, they dont run well on my bridge.

the biner on a swivel worked awesome for me to deadend my line to, i really liked it and i had my splittail on a captive eye biner. it was a pretty good setup for me and the way they met up and rode together on my bridge was legit. almost no clashing at all.


i just moved on from this set up after about a year of using it. its a good system but i am moving on to the hitchclimber and prussic set up now.

 

[treemandan]

I could never operate those ball locks very well and I like biners that the lock barrel pushes to the small side of the biner to open. Most are the opposite and I have always wondered why. ???

 

[JeffL]

I use an aluminum rope snap for my lifeline, and a Petzl ball locker for my split-tail.

Several good places to buy online...

Baileys is a site sponsor, and should have them. Otherwise Sherril/Vermeer, or Wesspur...

Ditto. Petzl ball lock on the split tail and locking rope snap on the end of my climbing line. Considering just getting an eye spliced 120' footer and running another biner on the end of that.

 

[eljefe]

Petzl binger

Hi, There was a recall on some models of the Petzl ball lock. This is the website address on this issue...http://en.petzl.com/petzl/SportNews?News=160. This info dates back to 2006.
I started using, when I switched to bingers, a steel tri lock. Worked real good. I have switched to an aluminum tri act AMD auto lock. This also works real good. Plenty of room for double Ds on one end and a girth hitched eye splice on the other. I am trying to remember just why I did switch to alum from steel. Probably just to try something different. Eljefe

 

[NickfromWI]

My favorite carabiner, the ISC Quadlock. I know Wesspur has them:

love
nick

 

[clearance]

DMM steel double acting biner. Steel is real, I trust it. After having cut aluminum plate with a wood blade in a skilsaw at work years back, I don't trust it. Yeah I know pound for pound its stronger than steel, but so is Douglas Fir. Or a steel rope snap.

 

[eljefe]

Binger

Hi, Clearance, I hear you loud and clear. This is my gut reaction, too. However, !!! after watching a video of a Stihl chainsaw cut right through a steel core flipline and knowing that even if the binger were made of Uncutable (new just discovered metal from outer galaxy) the rope is just inches or less away, I continue to wonder if steel would really buy anything except a false sense of security. In WWII, I read of sailors on PT boats ducking behind the cowling when being fired upon. The cowling was 3/4 inch plywood and offered no protection from enemy machine gun fire (the smallest stuff being thrown at them). It was just gut reaction. Gut reaction is sometimes the best and keeps us alive and sometimes it is just dead dog wrong and buys nothing except a false sense of security. It this case, steel certainly can not be cut faster than aluminum so it won't hurt anything to use it. I just wonder if it makes us safer. ElJefe

 

[2FatGuys]

I use Petzl or Kong or Climb Right tri-act biners. They have never failed me...