Zigzag failure

Hey if I was a dope and let my biners get all out of position and then jump up and down on it...I not only would not climb on it, I would probably not climb at all (or just climb a little bit like you do).
 
All I heard was a post by one individual and do not know on what thread and it was said that it was an approx. 60' fall. I think more would have been made of that than the small fall by the trainer that is being published...were it true.

I am still very disappointed that Petzl did not follow thru with a statement on specifics of this incident (like they promised to give on May 20th 2013) and think less of them as a company now because of this, and have been buying their products for years.
 
The 2nd failure happened up here in Ontario. I've been told by my Petzel distibutor that it was exactly the same failure as the first. Fortunately the climber was lanyarded in when his zigzag failed and no injury occurred.
 
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er let me get this straight as I have been climbing on this device for a month plus now....the guy was in a neutral static position with weight on his lanyard...and his Zigzag just broke in the spot like the other one with the biner cantilevered? Not on any cite including Arbtalk's longwinded thread on it.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/56708-zig-zag-failure.html

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Are you really still climbing on it? That would be crazy.
 
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er let me get this straight as I have been climbing on this device for a month plus now....the guy was in a neutral static position with weight on his lanyard...and his Zigzag just broke in the spot like the other one with the biner cantilevered? Not on any cite including Arbtalk's longwinded thread on it.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/56708-zig-zag-failure.html

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Are you really still climbing on it? That would be crazy.

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Im willing to bet many are still using it.
As stupid as it seems, it cost almost 300.00, thats a lot of money for some, enough to lose their life over I'd guess.
Also some people are not tapped into the information suprehighway and may not have heard of the incident at all. Crazy but I bet it is true.
 
Don't shoot the messenger, I wasn't there. But there are lots of ways someone can fall even with a lanyard on, if the slack hasn't been tended. A slack 10' lanyard around a branch you're standing on can allow a significant fall.
Whether that was enough to cause the failure of the zigzag? I don't know. We can read 3rd party accounts and speculate all day long about what happened, but that's all it will be until Petzel clears it up.
 
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