Anyone use these yet?

[MattP]

I realy dont understand why you would want to use snaps at all?
whats wrong with using carabiners? and you can take the carabiner off the rope witch you cant do with a snap. i think carabiners are a lot more versatile.

each to there own.

matt.

 

[TANNER]

I like to keep one on my saddle. If a rope don't have a splice, and they are for a split tail, with a girth hitch.

 

[TreeStuff]

Got the chance to meet with Wayne Ellis from ISC today here in Indianapolis. Really good guy.

We probably won't bring back their SH901 snap (just sold my last one). The SH903 is much more safe with minimal hassle.

Although ultimately it is up to the public to decide.

(I do hope they dip in price though as we move forward.)

 

[roxy]

I was told the issue with the snaps was most likely to occur when you're all gunked up in a pine, spruce, or fir where there's lots of pokey branches all around your body and you have to twist and turn up through the ladder of branches...and that's when sometimes a branch hits the primary safety on your snap, then you move and open the gate...and open yourself up to a potential fall.

 

[Blinky]

Derrick,

That CTI snap is my favorite snap. I think banning double action snaps has more to do with selling hardware than safety.

I'd like to try the ISC snap but I trust the CTI snaps absolutely... but then I don't compete either.

 

[theXman]

so, the statement in the description of this new 3 way snap: "the two way ones not allowed in competition"; is that in the UK? It's not that way in the US yet is it Mark?
Cause I was planning on going to Jersey to play in your little competiton this Saturday.

I use snaps and biners.

Most tree removals and fast work, STEEL heavy snaps.

My steel snaps are the two way.

My problem with the aluminum stuff is it's too light for me.

I like to take the heavy steel snap, wrap my tail around it to make it a little more heavy and toss it into a higher crotch or another tree to set my climbing line higher or in another place. Instead of having to use a throw bag.

My problem with this new 3 way snap would simply be that it is likely too light.


However, on big trims with a lot of up and down and in and out, I'll use prussic cord, hitch climber pulley and biners. I MADE MYSELF use prussic cord and micro pulley for almost a year when I first learned how to do it years ago. I then went back 90% to the steel snaps and using the tail of my climbing line off my snap for the prussic. yeah, old school huh.