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cut(e) twins or double trouble? 29-Jul-2009 At 12:46:13 AM anthonyk

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On 29/07/2009 simey wrote:
>I agree with you James. It was one of those things I heard when I started
>climbing when being told the do's and don'ts of using double ropes. However
>I suspect it is a crock of shit.

i've burnt through the sling of a quickdraw that a rope ran over, it ran over the bit of the sling on the inside of the carabiner. after seeing that any kind of nylon-nylon friction is something i'd say to definitely do without. you potentially end up with the same situation with doubles when they get tension at different times, if the slack rope is on the bottom the tight rope is going to rub against it when it takes the load, and it'll move a fair way while its under tension.