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Tagged with climbing carabiners
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Can anyone ID this hitch?
This is something I use around the house, camping, tying down misc truck loads, etc. It’s a quick way to attach a carabiner to a bight, it can take load on the working, standing or both ends, it doesn’...
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Why are twist-lock carabiners considered dangerous for some applications?
There are different types of locking carabiners. A screw-gate carabiner requires multiple rotations of the screw in order to lock it. A twist-lock carabiner locks automatically whenever you close it.
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What's the proper way to establish a triaxial connection with carabiners?
I love free climbing but have never climbed with ropes. While reading through this question, I realized I would never have thought of these scenarios, but due to the answers on that post, the physics ...
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Is there any evidence that attaching a biner to both seat and leg loops results in a 3-way load?
It is commonly known that loading your carabiner in three directions is bad, as it reduces it's strength. This is apparent when talking about belay stations, as e.g. described in this blog post by the ...
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What is a nose-hooked carabiner and why is it dangerous?
In rock climbing a carabiner can get nose-hooked and it is a very dangerous situation.
What exactly is a nose-hooked carabiner and why is it dangerous?
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What are opposite and opposed carabiners?
It is often said that when using two carabiners at the same point, such as an anchor, they should be opposite and opposed.
What exactly does this mean?
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What are creative uses for retired carabiners?
I seem to have accumulated a good number of carabiners that, while probably still safe, I won't climb on anymore. They might be worn, of questionable origin, or just plain made obsolete by an upgrade.
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Preventing cross-loading on belay carabiners
It happend to me a couple of times now that I've cross-loaded my carabiner when belaying; the frequent change from slack to tension and back, moving the carabiner up and down and all that, can easily ...
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What does it mean to cross load a carabiner?
What does it mean to cross load a carabiner?
I know it's bad, and not to do it, but I don't really know what exactly it is.
