Deerman406
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2020
- Messages
- 317
I say knot failure as the sheath or covering makes it harder to hold a knot. I feel anyway. I actually wrap tag end of knot tight with electrical tape to help. Shawn
I have rappelled on wet Oplux many times. It’s not ideal, but I’ve never felt that it was dangerous. I switched to the Rescue Tech mid season and can’t remember a time where it got really wet to try it out.
FWIW, I actually prefer the Safeguard/Oplux-Rescue Tech over the Canyon C IV. In other words, if the Canyon was just as light and had the same bulk as the 8mm stuff, I would still choose the 8mm for ease of ride down.
If your using a sewn eye oplux tether, sewn auto block and tie a figure 8 on the end of the rope to clip back in your carabiner, your chances of failure are very minimal. Like hitting the powerball odds...
If your using a sewn eye oplux tether, sewn auto block and tie a figure 8 on the end of the rope to clip back in your carabiner, your chances of failure are very minimal. Like hitting the powerball odds...
This is true tooIf you tie your knots correctly your chances of failure are very minimal...
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have some stuff sewn by Iron Street, I think they are part of Wespar Tree.The rope sewing group that many use (name escapes me, you can send your stuff to them to have it sewed) report that they have not had a single failure of one of their products ever in the history of their company.
It’s not the leaning. It’s having a fall of 4 feet on a 2 ft rope, work out of spec gear. It’s the kn generated from such a short static fall that these static ropes just aren’t built for.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have some stuff sewn by Iron Street, I think they are part of Wespar Tree.
He hooked the Oplux to a static object (the front of a tractor, if I'm not mistaken...), and then introduced about 5' of slack into the rope before throwing it in reverse (it was a UTV, not an SUV as I stated) and slamming against the rope with both mechanical ascenders in play on back-to-back "pulls" ... Scientific and worthy of TMA testing, maybe it wasn't -- but it did show me and others the tremendous amount of force that rope would take, even with a device biting into its sheath at extreme forces. That rope ain't breaking just with someone leaning against it tethered into a tree.
I have heard of them, I’ll check it outI think the ones I am referring to are Rope Logic. I do have Iron Street stuff too. Excellent work. Check out Rope Logic's website, cool stuff. They seem extremely legit and serious.