Spartan
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As I'm upgrading/changing some of my gear in preps for next season, it occurred to me that there are carabiners which are much smaller and lighter than the standard ones that either come with saddle kits, or the aftermarket ones that a lot of saddle hunters seem to gravitate towards as they get new gear. Less to clunk around and less weight. To me, these large biners seem to have a lot of use for rock climbing and canyoning applications since they sometimes need the size, but as a saddle hunter I can't think of a single reason why the old "smaller and lighter is better" mentality can't also apply to our biners. So I bought a few and have been testing with them both on my tethers and linemans rigs, and couldn't be happier. Haven't seen a single reason yet why to not choose the smaller and lighter biners that are also fully climbing rated. Half the size and about a third of the weight.
Anybody else going smaller? Any reason why smaller wouldn't be better for our typical saddle rigs?
And just as a note, one of the pics shows a wire-gate biner that is the absolute smallest climbing-rated biner I could find just for testing and comparison. I personally wouldn't use a non-locking biner, I just wanted to see the difference. But plenty of rock climbers do use them as part of their rigs. That thing is crazy small, but still rated for 22kN!
Anybody else going smaller? Any reason why smaller wouldn't be better for our typical saddle rigs?
And just as a note, one of the pics shows a wire-gate biner that is the absolute smallest climbing-rated biner I could find just for testing and comparison. I personally wouldn't use a non-locking biner, I just wanted to see the difference. But plenty of rock climbers do use them as part of their rigs. That thing is crazy small, but still rated for 22kN!