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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I have a saying where I work..."no consequences". Meaning folks will do what they damn well please and nothing ever happens so...yeah. You can climb on a screw gate carabiner if you want. No judgement here.
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I see treestuff has that mentioned clearly. Didn't see it on Wespur of Bartlett. Its taken them 3 years to get the "official response to an updated Z 133" published. If they want to make this ruling "official" you can wait another 10 years lol.
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    Well if anyone actually cares, I posed this question to members of Z133 comittees at the same time I posed it here. The unofficial/official response was it is not compliant. They also, of their own accord, reached out to Arbsession to request they add language to the product description...
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    Go to canopy anchor?

    This is great insight. Thanks for taking the time to spell that out. Makes sense.
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    A busted/sticky carabiner can be said to do the same thing. "Look, I did two things and it's stuck in push mode but it'll still auto lock if I do this other stuff to it". The logic is the same. The orca operates in a way that a faulty carabiner can operate.
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    Go to canopy anchor?

    I @Muggs I've really wanted to give this anchor a fair shake but never pull my soft 8 out of my gear bag. You've convinced me to put it on my harness so I no longer have excuses lol. I have a couple questions about retrieval though. Do you use a retrieval ball or knot on the tail of your...
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I don't have access to my copy this weekend... I'll quote it on Monday but my recollection is something along the lines of carabineers need two consecutive motions to prepare the gate to open. Up, twist, then push to open. Or for the petzl ball locks....push ball twist, push to open. The orca...
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    My initial question is not posed as "is this appropriate for expert or novice". It was "Is the carabiner I linked, or one like I described, ok to use, per our ANSI Z133 standards, as life support?". I don't believe it is. As far as I've ever thought about it, Rock Exotica's phrasing "for...
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    The one I took out of service seemed way too easy to set to "push open" mode. Maybe you veterans can justify it. I can't, and won't in a class of green folks. It has a feature that prevents auto locking....
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I was teaching a tree climbing class earlier this week. Almost all participants brought their own gear. Most of the gear was in great shape but was not familiar to them. It was just what they were given by their employer. While doing our gear check, one of the participants had a carabiner...
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    New HitchHikerXF

    I finally got a chance to do a decent climb and tried the "wrapping from the front" mostly like you showed. Only thin I did different is I did not have an crossover. Just 4 wraps, starting from the top working down. Brother let me tell you what a dream it was to climb with that config. It...
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    New HitchHikerXF

    I will be trying out the "reverse" config next opportunity. Always liked the HH and its variants.
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    Giant G2500 HD X-TRA

    I love how dry and straight of a response this is lol
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    Samson rope ID

    Is there a tracer in the core?
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    tool/chainsaw lanyard attachment options while in a bucket truck?

    I would really be interested in just seeing how lanyards respond to a dropped saw shock load in the their own right. I use these in the bucket: https://a.co/d/0hpHEWw6 If I had a scale that would record peak load I'd bust a couple to see where they finally gave out. Would be nice if...
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