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Locking Rope Snap 

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Image courtesy Bailey's
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User reviews

Average user rating from: 2 user(s)

Overall rating (weighted)
4.9
Type of Use
2.0
Frequency of Use
4.0
Durability
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Safety
4.5
Strength
5.0
 

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful

Eric Belcher
I always use these., Monday, 03 December 2007

Written by Eric Belcher   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
5.0
Type of Use
1.0
Frequency of Use
4.0
Durability
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Safety
5.0
Strength
5.0
It's funny how perspectives work. I was taught how to climb originally by an arborist who used these all the time, and so I learned how to climb using these all the time. They are my defacto ends for DRT climbing, and I love how they work. The angles involved to open them are specific enough to make me feel like the odds in having them open by accident are pretty high, and I have never had this happen once in all kinds of conditions. I really appreciate how the working end is different than the ring, so that the rope is always separated from the fastening end and is therefore never subjected to unnecessary friction and wear. They are in the same weight class as most of my locking biners, so that has never been an issue to me. They are made from the same materials as most non-steel carabiners, so their life expectancy can be considered the same.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful

Favorite terminator for a positioning lanyard, Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Written by Mark Fulton   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Type of Use
3.0
Frequency of Use
4.0
Durability
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Safety
4.0
Strength
5.0
For the last 2 1/2 years I've been using a pair of these to terminate the ends of the double-ended positioning lanyard that I always bring into the tree.

They're a little bit heavy, and they rattle around a bit during a climb but I can't imagine climbing without them. Clipping on and off is more or less instant once you get the motion down (the locking/unlocking mechanism is very simple). I suppose the simple locking mechanism could be opened more easily by accident than a triple-action carabiner (which is why I put in the "4" rating for safety), but I've never had this happen, even in crowded settings with a lot of branches around. The weight can actually be made into a virtue when setting the lanyard onto a branch overhead; I just fling the thing up and the weight is usually enough to pull a few feet of lanyard line (10mm PMI sport rope) over the branch. They show only a little bit of wear on the inside of the hook after 2 1/2 years of use; I don't expect to retire them for another 10 years or so.


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