Mountain Project: Forum: dyneema or nylon tricams?

By Buff Johnson
Jul 7, 2010

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth. <br /> <br />The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. <br /> <br />After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only "orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. <br />

Is it just me, why do men admire other men's tri-cam placements and women could give a rat's fat ass?

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By Adam Paashaus
From North Carolina
Jul 7, 2010

I find they work great on east coast style of climbing and out west I use them most on alpine routes.

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By bigwallrog
From the farside
Aug 11, 2010

I like redheads with a nice pink interior

Oh were talking tricams well the pink n red are always on my rack
and for wierd placements they rock.

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By J tot
From Tempe, AZ
Aug 11, 2010

grab the .5-2 nylon from mountaingear.com while you still can. They are on sale for $60 (though they have been for over a year). Tri-cams rock, spend some time on easier routes playing with all the different placing configurations.

And everyone is right, the pink tri-cam is the best piece of pro, period. That being said, go SINK THE PINK!

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By Dan G0D5H411
From Colorado Springs, CO
Aug 11, 2010

I carry the smallest four Tri-cams (sometimes a double on pink) and they are the best for anchors. Why use up valuable cams for an anchor when Tri-cams fit and are lighter?

I used to do the stiffy mod, but haven't with my latest tri-cams. Does anyone know if the glue from the tape degrades the sling?

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By Larry S
Aug 11, 2010

Dan Godshall wrote:

Does anyone know if the glue from the tape degrades the sling?

I can't say with absolute certainty, but as long as you're using a tape with a rubber based adhesive and not an acrylic solvent adhesive, you should be fine. Unless you've got some special industrial tape around, chances are it's rubber based (duct tape, electrical tape, etc).

This site shows the type of adhesive used on different kinds of tapes - www.tapecase.com/c.165.1.1/duct-tape-and-cloth-tape.aspx

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By goatboywonder
Aug 12, 2010

Chris Drover wrote:

While I admittedly do not place them often while actually leading a pitch, I love having the rack of four of them when it comes time to build a gear anchor and I just burned all my cams sewing up the crux. Same with hexes - I don't fiddle with them much mid-pitch, but use them all the time for gear anchors (which you are *generally* building from a decent stance). Some day I'll man up and learn to use my passive pro during desperate moves, but today is not that day! =) -Chris

+1 I almost always use at least one tricam in my anchor.

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By devkrev
From West Woodstock, VT
Aug 17, 2010

arm-jammer wrote:

was looking at diversifying my rack of gear, something other than cams and nuts/hexes, and have decided on getting some tricams, not a lot just the 4 pack, but i dont know whether to just get the nylon slung set, or pay another ten bucks for the dyneema. i looked at the ratings and the dyneema is actually heavier than the nylon, but the dyneema has a 2 KN advantage in the camming form over the nylon......soooooooo. what to do?

I would save your money, and just buy the pink tricam, maybe the red, those are the only ones I carry on a regular basis anymore. Ask around at the places you climb most, they may be fairly worthless.

Get comfortable with them on the ground, look for the placements that nothing else will work, you have probably ignored these placements up till this point.

I like using them first thing off the ground for a multidirectional piece, and at belays multipitch climbing.

dev

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