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bobruef
Jan 13, 2007, 2:53 PM
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jimdavis wrote: I haven't read the new JL book, but I don't see how one could be *afraid* of using Dyneema/ Spectra in an anchor. The shit is 10x stronger than steel, lb for lb. Just use it properly. Nylon might be king, but that doesn't make spectra unsafe, as long as you're using it correctly. Jim
Of course dyneema is strong. Of course it is safe in an anchor if used properly. I simply cautioned against girth hitching dyneema slings to other slings to extend the anchor point, as recent antecdotal evidence has shown to possibly be unsafe practice.
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jimdavis
Jan 13, 2007, 11:15 PM
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TBlake84 wrote: what I was asking is if the dyneema was "strong enough" as John Long puts it.
That's what I was responding to.
Jim
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foreverabumbly
Jan 15, 2007, 8:13 AM
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Just a funny point to make, in my little corner of the world, if you set up top ropes using slings instead of static rope, You get called unsafe and noone would climb with you, and if you Girth hitch anything you will be slapped and thrown of the side of the cliff. It makes you wonder how an "unsafe practice" in one country can be totally accepted in another. Maybe something to do with the gravitational pull on the two different hemispheres...
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socalclimber
Jan 15, 2007, 12:05 PM
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Well this should come as no surpise. You live in a country where the toilets flush backwards.
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