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death bolts and tree cutting at Earlwood 5-Mar-2010 At 4:51:17 PM racingtadpole

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You might be right Neil, whoever did this may have industrial training, but I would doubt it given the absolutely woeful selection and application of materials. The eyebolts you photo'd are grade 8084 Aluminium, completely useless for anchoring (and also not even close to being up to code for industrial work, in the setup you describe we use steel bolts rated to a significantly higher WLL than 230kg).
Im at a loss to understand why anyone would even contemplate going to the trouble of installing such a setup when there are clearly serviceable anchors already installed.
I hope you find whomever is responsible for such stupidity and beat them repeatedly with a wet fish.
Whilst I am very unlikely to climb here in the near future I echo the sentiments of those saying thanks to both yourself and Mikl for being vigilant.