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tedtiger
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tedtiger
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 1, 2008, 09:08

I would be very curiouse to know what brand of rope they were using!  I had a rope come apart on me this winter, it was also brand new and the sheath cut very easily.  Luckily some of the strands held and nothing serious happened(other than scaring the crap out of my partner and myself)we had a sheath totally let go with 2 feet of core exposed and some of the strands were cut while on rappell.  I have heard a few other stories from people using the same brand of rope that I was that had simulare problems.  If any one knows the brand used by that gym with the cut rope I would love to know. 

mike b
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mike b
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 1, 2008, 15:10

Tedtiger, may I ask, what brand of rope did you have this experience with?

chris neve
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Chris
Post Check your carabiners…
on: May 1, 2008, 17:00

… and those at your local climbing gym.

http://www.czechclimbing.com/clanek.php?key=6771

Chris

Chris

trad
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trad
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 2, 2008, 03:02

If any one knows the brand used by that gym with the cut rope I would love to know.

Hey tedtiger,
I know we would all like to know what brand of rope you used when this happened. The company does not need to be protected. I think the climbing community as a whole would find this to be very usefull information.

Don’t you feel a need to help others?

chossmonkey
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chossmonkey
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 2, 2008, 05:56

It has nothing to do with the rope. The biner was worn to the point of sharp edges. Falling on a biner like that will damage any rope.

harihari
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chris
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 2, 2008, 16:17

WHen I was last in City of Rocks, there was this dude toproping a bunch of boy scouts on Elephant Rock.  His bieners were WAY more worn than those (literally 1/2 way through).  I took him aside and said uhhh, that’s a serious safety risk and then he told me that he’d been top-roping with the scouts for years and he knew what he was doing.

chris stolz

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http://gumbiesoncrack.blogspot.com

trad
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trad
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 2, 2008, 20:01

Agreed. Except a Esprit of course.

However what did happen to Tedtiger is a real threat would you not agree? And knowing which brand of rope is not doing its best for safety is something we all should know about.

tedtiger
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tedtiger
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 3, 2008, 12:10

Ok I guess I should follow up my post.  I was climbing with 2 half ropes the dragon flys 8.3mm by Petzl.  I would like to say in their defence the company was concerned and did take the ropes for examination.  They really did seem to care and sent me 2 brand new ropes soon after.  I was just wondering if it was an isolated freak event or wether others had issues.  I have heard a few stories from 2 other friends that had petzl ropes with sheath issues.  I would like to say that I use a lot of petzl gear(gri-gri, biners, draws, helmets etc. etc. and have been very happy with its performance other than this one incident)

trad
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trad
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 4, 2008, 15:43

Hey tedtiger,

I wonder who makes the ropes for Petzl? What happened to you is scary if you ask me. Glad to know which company it was. Like I said I wonder who builds ropes for Petzl.

Cheers

jody
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jody
Post Re: Check your carabiners…
on: May 8, 2008, 09:21

I believe PMI used to make ropes for Petzl, then Petzl bought PMI and now it’s just Petzl.  I could be wrong.

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