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  1. Matias

    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    Except that the ORCA should behave reliably. and it returns to the auto lock mode after clipping it onto something properly. I still see a properly funtioning locker with a feature that makes it unsuitable for less experienced users
  2. Matias

    Maintenance… daily or when needed?

    The deeper truth here. Real wisdom.
  3. Matias

    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    But if it can only be put into that mode by two separate and distinct movements, which is how I remember it, then it is exactly as safe as a standard locker. I can make a locker open up in a way that kind of simulates an accidental opening, but it requires pressure on the gate that would fully...
  4. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    Oh. I guess I never considered that the brummel is only on one side. I figured it was bi-directional in the end to end, but I am gonna look at that next weekend when I hopefully have a minute.
  5. Matias

    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I totally get that it's their slogan, but I have seen the same basic warning in the literature for all climbing gear, and further warnings on some products about not using without having recieved proper instruction in their use. I don't have handy the exact wording from the Z. Could I trouble...
  6. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    I haven't actually done a tuck-bury to see how it feels, but I did produce a very usable product with a brummel for a friction saver on 1/2" stable braid. I have seen this exact type of product commercially available as well
  7. Matias

    Being a “Young” Business Owner

    When I imagine myself 20 years ago thinking about what 40 would feel like and extrapolate what it will be like in another 40 years, it's really hard. I have a good imagination, but still.
  8. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    Without double checking, I seem to remember the tuck-bury being the most compact. I need to to practice it, because I know it's not as hard as my brain is trying to convince me it is, but Brocky has posted some amazing numbers with the tuck-bury. Seems worth a shot.
  9. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    I think I did a brummel, and then only one fid bury actually. otherwise it's stuffed too tight near the ring and won't hold on to the host line very well unless you run it on something really fat.
  10. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    IIRC yes, I used Samsons instructions
  11. Matias

    Artemis II

    I wonder if the folks who think we didn't go up there have ever checked the math. I would be a lot more inclined to believe we didn't go to the moon if you could show me mathematically that it's not possible.
  12. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    sweet. you're gonna end up with about a 30" loop to get proper buries, and you will have space for brummels. I made one of those once too, and it worked great.
  13. Matias

    Turf tracks for ditch witch

    I am often impressed with the finesse some machine operators have. I have nowhere near enough tine with any one machine besides a chipper to be even call myself proficient. I bet a smart guy with a few arduinos could make that happen. Hell, I bet someone in Russia or thereabouts has figured it...
  14. Matias

    Maintenance… daily or when needed?

    Agreed.
  15. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    class 1 v class 2 is mostly about bury length for strength. What are you tryna do with this loop?
  16. Matias

    Being a “Young” Business Owner

    I'm about to be 40, and I only stopped referring to "us kids" about two years ago. I am younger than 95% of the guys I have worked with. I have seen a few 20-somethings try it out and quit, but around Butte county, there aren't actually that many young climbers- mostly 30's, and lots of older...
  17. Matias

    Be honest… I used to be in the “only check when something feels off” group.

    must be only on desktop I don't see it either
  18. Matias

    Ice tail endless loop

    I made one once. I managed to keep it to a 4" loop. I use it to hang my med. duty weedwhacker on my weedwhacker harness, since it doesn't vome with a ring. Basically just think of it like a splice to join two pieces of rope together, but then you do it with the ends of a single piece. I didn't...
  19. Matias

    Rigging with karabiners

    Damn man, that's pushin it for real for real. I thought I had pushed it heavy, but I have never bent a steelie. Shit, I have yet to even ruin a gate. I have always been too cautious for that, I guess; probably comes from starting out with nobody to show me what's what.
  20. Matias

    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    As has been mentioned before, and in the sales literature for the ORCA, they are not for novice users. Expert use only. I would have done the same as you @Phil I just hadn't seen one in action, and I hadn't ever heard a discussion about them, but now I understand their use case better. and I...

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