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2t pulley block and soft shackles 9-Jul-2020 At 4:03:47 PM IdratherbeclimbingM9

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On 2-Jul-2020 TimP wrote:
>I've often wondered about sailing gear for climbing — just saw this new
>soft shackle snatch block from Ronstan: https://youtu.be/2bGL2WA3ujk
>2t WL, 165g. Handy for hauling gear?
>
I use stainless steel C-clips from yachting applications as part of my tethering system for jumaring, though I found the system perhaps better suited to my former caving days.

I also know a climber that uses yachting kevlar rope (200 m x 8 mm !), for abseil access to routes on the north wall of Buffalo.
Due to the scale of industry retail yachting vs climbing industry, he went that way due the significant cost saving over buying 200 m of ‘climbing’ static rope, along with the added bonus of being stronger but heaps lighter in weight.

>I saw some slack-liners climbing with soft shackle quick-draws, will the
>soft shackle thing ever catch on in climbing?
>
I’ve also seen slackliner climbers using ‘soft’ woven quickdraws that had a woven eye one end to cinch over bolt heads.
Certainly lightweight and strong, but hard for me to feel comfortable about using!
It’d take a large mental shift for such gear to catch on in general climbing... and given the commercial advertising juggernaut of established companies with vested interests, I doubt the new safety-coddled ex indoor climbing brigade would even look at it, let alone adopt it.

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>2t WL, 165g. Handy for hauling gear?
Possibly, but without a built in quick release progress-catching attachment, wouldn’t be user friendly enough(?)... I’d also feel more comfortable if the soft shackle component was modified to be redundant fail-safe, as it looks like it relies somewhat on being under tension to remain secure?