BEWARE OF HRC Eye to Eye tails

[HÖLLENREICH]

Yea, cuase we all know, that petzl helmet will save your life when you fall from the crane. When do the air bag helmets hit the market??? This way when the helmet hits the ground before you, it'll inflate and break all your ribs instead of 2.

 

[inztrees]

I thought your helmet had an air bag in it. Haahahahah

 

[ryansenechal]

Hey maddies monk
Muskoka is not plural.

 

[Boogie]

Oh Ive been a full-time paramedic 72hrs a week for the last five years and I know what hard hats and seat belts DONT DO! But rules are rules.....I hate hard hats so much I often debate and justify in my head the $600.00 fine is worth not wearing it! But.......OHSA always wins! And my petzl helment does have airbags! But its designed to go off and crush my skull on the inside before I hit the ground, so it saves me from being on a ventilator for the rest of my life! It is a feature well worth the money!!! haha

 

[Roger_Barnett]

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I thought your helmet had an air bag in it. Haahahahah

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Score 20 for ya!!!! Hot air, too boot....

 

[Blinky]

I hear you on what helmets won't do, I had a grade 3 concussion when I hit a tree with my face while wearing a Vertex. (The tree fell while I was in it BTW... I don't ordinarily go around hitting trees with my head.)

Still, I don't mind wearing a helmet. Seems like every sport I ever got into required a helmet so I'm used to them... I've got a collection.

 

[peder-d]

I've been climbing on 10mm soft heat (http://www.freeworker.de/store/seile/klemmknotenseile/soft-heat.html) for 1½ year, and it does exactly the same.
I have always kept an eye on it, but haven't been that worried aobut it.
Is it dangerous?? And is the breaking strength affected by it????!

 

[lonniels]

I dont know how dangerous it is. Whenever I see climbing gear that seems to be defective,I discontinue using it. Plain and simple.

 

[Blinky]

Funny how Soft Heat looks a whole lot like 10mm Beeline. If it's the actual core that's popping through rather than the bury I think yeah, it compromises breaking strength because of what Norm said, the core and cover aren't balanced and the cover is taking most, if not all of the load.

 

[banjo]

That freeworker site has a bunch of cool looking rope.

 

[Blinky]

Yep, I wish I could read that stuff.

 

[banjo]

yeah, it would be cool if they had a translate thing.

 

[tomthetreeman]

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...l%3Den%26sa%3DG

 

[banjo]

Arborist and tree of love nurses. wicked funny.

 

[inztrees]

look at tom go

 

[tomthetreeman]

And, the catalog pages are apparently 'too large to translate.'

So much for that.

 

[marlinspiker]

i just returned some defective HRC to American Arborist in West Chester PA. He called the manufacturer and apparently there are two defective runs and they will be replacing these free of charge.

 

[NickfromWI]

This is why the internet is good! Very quickly we are able to identify a problem, find the cause, and find the solution. Group hug!

I've been having issues with herniation in spliced 10mm Beeline. I know the cover/core were balanced perfectly. Something else is going on with that particular rope that makes it prone to herniation.

For the record, Yale Cordage no longer sells factory spliced 10mm Beeline rope for this very reason.

love
nick

 

[Norm_Hall]

Maybe cause the core is strate polyester and the cover is a blend of technora/poly. The cover won't stretch like the core will.

 

[Blinky]

I'll be damned. Today I noticed my one of my barely used HRC tails has a bump in it I can't explain. About 4" up from the eye. You're gonna have to wait until I figure this out Justin.