As I had said, every individual needs to be inspecting their gear regularly. You are the only one who is responsible for your safety.
@Njjb122 - all due respect bud, you are flat out wrong about there being some types of trees they won't work in, sans a tree with a diameter large than the rope. In my experience, knowing your gear takes longer than a few days. If you know your gear and its limitations, you can do much more than expected. I've probably climbed over hundred times with these, in every tree type I could find, from white pine/hemlock to osage orange to shagbark hickory. All of the bands that I have experienced have occurred when camming and I was not paying attention to the situation, or I was pushing known limitations. Examples: I did not notice that both stand offs were not touching the tree, another is I was over reaching above by head and was not able to get the step high above the rope prior to camming, this resulted in the rope being set much higher on the step then normal, I was able to apply much more pressure with a lot less force. That second is and easy one for people to bend the standoff, you have to make sure to pull the step up above the rope line prior to camming over. All I'm trying to say is you have very little experience with piece of gear, once you gain that experience you'll change your mind about these, or not, doesn't matter because like everyone else here your gonna fall down the rabbit hole and end up with way more gear than you could ever use
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