Help me find a 'biner

[NickfromWI]

Help me find a \'biner

I'm looking for a 'biner. Can you recommend the right one:

Steel
Triple Locking (not screw locking)
No-snag style (key-lock)
Pear/HMS Style

Any ideas?

love
nick

 

[Colin]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Are we going on a fishing trip, eh? /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Jesse]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

For all of my personal fall protection I like the Petzl Ball Locking Biners. They seem to be the easiest to open when you want them to and least likely to open when you don't want them to.

 

[glens]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Hi Nick.

Kong makes one exactly as you describe.

Among other places you can find it at http://www.okarboristsupply.com/carabiners.htm (Biner4). I got mine from Sherrills but their website is pretty unfriendly so I wouldn't want to send anyone to it.

Glen

[edit -- let's get the info directly from the Italian stallion's mouth: http://www.kong.it/pr_lcon.htm]

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

I really like the ISC Gecko:

http://www.iscwales.com/Allhooksframe.htm

 

[glens]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

But the ISCs don't meet Nick's "key-lock" criteria.

Nick, there are a few near the bottom of the second section (Carico pesante) of Kong's page I linked-to above. Search for those made of steel with the symbols

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[NickfromWI]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Does petzl make a steel version of the triact?

 

[glens]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/download.php?Number=25723

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

The ISC biners sure do have keylock noses I've got many of those big boys!

 

[glens]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Tom,

I guess we're not on the same page regarding what "key-lock" is. All the ISCs I recall seeing had the pin through the end of the gate which fits into a (snagging) slot on the body. If that's a key-lock then I apologize. Maybe what I'm thinking of would be a tee-lock (non-snagging), if that's a real term. When Nick specified non-snag I assumed he wasn't talking at the horribly-snagging pin-lock (if that's a real term) as used on the ISCs and DMMs of my familiarity.

Glen

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Take a look at these:

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

This too...

 

[NickfromWI]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Both triple locking steel? The first looks like a prototype I saw at Baltimore a couple years ago. Are they available to the general public now?

love
nick

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

Oops, sorry, both of them are aluminum.

The red one is in production. I think Denny told me that it is made for Drayer in Germany but should be available through an ISC vendor.

 

[glens]

Re: Help me find a \'biner

I hate to sound like a Kong fan-boy... I was just rooting around their web site. Hands-down the best, most sensible site design I've encountered in quite some time! Makes me wonder if I've got an I-tie twin I don't know about.

Also cemented my idea of what a "key-lock" is.

I have only two Kong 'biners in my small collection. One in steel configured exactly as Nick had originally outlined, and one pear-shaped non-locker I use for chainsaw rear handles &c. The rest of my non-accessory 'biners are all Petzl ball-locks, which I'd quickly settled on as the best-of-breed for my money.

Glen