New equipment= slower climbing?

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I agree with Nick, I have several styles of triple locking biners...all of which can be opened with one hand behind my back. Besides who wants to mess around with a leatherman in a tree? It must take you near a full minute to manipulate the biner then retrieve your leatherman to lock it down and then put the tool back away. It only takes 2 seconds to open a triple locker--even one handed:confused:
 
yes Butch the steel snaps work fine...for clipping onto d rings and not much more. Carabs are much more versaitle and can be used in a wide variety of circumstances. You cannot false crotch or redirect with steel snaps.
Nor can you use a newer friction hitch with one, but why am I mentioning this to someone who loves the tautline so much?
:D

BTW- I havent tied a tautline in so many years i may have forgotten how;)

you dont use or own any biners:confused:
 
Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
First, I must say that Wiley can and should continue using the screwgates ...

Why not go along with an industry standard?

love
nick
 
This is as close as I'll get, but if its too light its getting chunked.

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I must admit, Frans has a good point. I have all the lastest and greatest gadgets and tools. There are things in my tool box that I have no idea how to even use.
Half the hitches and knots I tie aren't even tied right. When I go up to a simple removal, it take hours to just get my rope up there, then I like to set a second one just for safety.
The big shot take ten minutes to find, set up, and then I launch the bag so far it takes all hundred and fifty feet of string and disappears into the neighbors yard.
Then hooking up ascenders, rope grabs, pantins, and back ups on all three, gets me safely hooked to my rope, only to have my running bowline at the base come untied and I fall on my butt.
If I ever make it into the tree, I always forget to put the cambium saver into a spot it will come out. Then I thread the rope through the wrong way, so it wouldn't matter anyway.
As I work down, the bugee lanyard on my saw wraps around my neck, my VT is tied to long so it won't grab but that's ok because I have two Lockjacks (in parallel). I stay tied in twice, my DUMBO lanyard has a positioner on both ends and one in the middle.
I may not be wired right for climbing, so I'm thinking about teaching!
 
Sorry, I guess I was being to vague, I think from a safety standpoint, the screwgate biners are satisfactory. If one is judicious about triple checking harness connections/fasteners, then in my mind the new locking mechanism mandated by ANSI is not needed, kind of like a yeild sign the stop sign worked just fine. Also I never had even in my prime the dexterity to move my fingers like that so between being stubborn and constant overuse of muscle and connective fibers in my body I have no use for the new age biners except to have one on my saddle for the odd OSHA inspection ( that's aSSUMING the inspector has the wherewithall to even check that item.)
 
Butch, I think you'd be quite happy with that snap. Maybe you could splice the rope to it, instead of a bowline!

love
nick
 
Ha! Good question.

But I prefer the weight. Its easier to throw, and whips around the trunk better. So maybe I am 'used to' the weight.

When they first came out, I was working for a tree company full time, and the owner bought us the top of the line ******* then. I tried it for a couple months, but wound up putting my old snap back on.

Steel just throws better, IMO.

Them fancy ******* sure do look cool, though! :)
 
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