carabiners Archive
Roping and rigging equipment compatibility. Industrial round slings are normally used to connect a load or anchor to rigging equipment via shackles. There seems to be an increasing tendency to use these round slings for rope based
Three-way loading of carabiners. This issue is often presented as black-and-white and is rarely given much consideration. Most users know that manufacturers warn against certain loadings but what does this really mean? Carabiner manufacturers show that is
There is a common claim that “Dropped aluminium carabiners should be discarded as they can suffer invisible damage or ‘micro-fractures’ that may cause them to break below their rated strength.” The history of this claim is unknown