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Rope Life - what do you know? 2-Oct-2009 At 4:29:04 PM rockranga
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On 2/10/2009 dimpet wrote:
>Rope failure is probably going to cause more damage to you if your 100
>meters up :P,
>If one of gear fails you fall to the next one, not the entire way down.
>
>>On 2/10/2009 Wendy wrote:
>>I do occasionally wonder why people tend to be much more concerned about
>>the age and condition of their rope over any other bit of gear. Hands
>>up who's climbing on a 10 year old harness? Mine never last that long
>>as there's only so many years of thrutching a harness can do before it
>>has scary abrasions, but there seems to be plenty of old harnesses out
>>there. What about everyone's slings? And those on their quickdraws or
>>cams? They seem to be archaic even more often. Surely all these things
>>are subject to similar forces to a rope and manufactured of similar materials?


I think there's also a difference between static equipment and dynamic stuff, don't quote me on that though but it would make sense, especially when people go on about not letting the core of your rope dry out or it gets brittle

Disclaimer: the above is simply an oppinion drawn from comments heard around the water cooler, it's entirely possible i have no idea what i'm talking about and look like a complete twat right now

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