quickdraw biners
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do you oppose biners on your draws or keep the gates on the same side? |
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cruxslayer wrote:do you oppose biners on your draws or keep the gates on the same side? advantages of each?It doesn't matter. At all. Go climb. |
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I dont want to be "that guy", but if kind of does matter a little bit. We all know that you generally want the gate of the rope side biner facing away from the direction that you intend to climb, but what some people may not be aware of is that there have been cases of biners un-clipping themselves from bolts when the climber climbs the same direction that the gate is facing. Its pretty spooky to see it happen, and there have been a couple threads about it on here. Just to be safe, keep each biner oriented the same direction, and make sure that you are clipping it so that the gate is always AWAY from your intented direction of travel. |
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Alvaro Arnal wrote: It doesn't matter. At all. Go climb.Just go climb, punter. You would think an administrator on this site might be a little more helpful. He is correct though. |
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I googled it for you. Here are the top ones that popped up on the first page. Didnt even need to look on page two. |
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Jeff Kent wrote: Just go climb, punter. You would think an administrator on this site might be a little more helpful. He is correct though.I dont get it, you say the admin is not being helpful then you say he is right. I'd say he was spot on, it a personal choice. If I was worried about small issues like that I'd probably never leave my house ever. |
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I have my gates facing the same direction, for the reasons that Bill mentioned. A wire gate on the top biner is slightly more prone to unclipping (it's happened to me once) since the flatter gate can get caught on the bolt stub a bit easier. |
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The admin is right.. it's not abig deal ,, get some petzl Spirits and you will be fine |
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i have straight wire on the bolt side and opposing bent wire on the rope side. i def try to have the spine of the rope biner towards the direction i plan to climb. i had always thought it was a preference thing until i climbed with a new cat last weekend and he flipped all my draws each time he climbed. i asked why, he said it was safer.......he also said he climbed 5.12 and dog hung a handful of 5.10s |
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Shit- i'm pretty old and even I don't flip the biners anymore |
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I use them opposed and have done for 17 years now. I will generally clip bolts using an inward clipping motion as I find it more efficient, so opposed draws enable the rope biner to normally be in the correct orientation. |
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Jeff Kent wrote: Just go climb, punter. You would think an administrator on this site might be a little more helpful. He is correct though.Wow, Jeff Kent. Why the attitude? I was simply letting the OP know that there's no advantage/disadvantage either way; it's not worth worrying about so just go climbing with however your draws are set up. No need for name calling and attacks. I see you do agree with me though. Oh- and I did climb today. Hope you got out too! |
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does anyone else have as much of a hard-on for the camp mach exp draws as i do? |
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cruxslayer wrote:does anyone else have as much of a hard-on for the camp mach exp draws as i do?No. They wouldn't even make my top 5. |