caribeana fail !!

[baileyben]

taking down a huge ash tree today and was lowering it down to the grond from a v at the top of the tree when all of a sudden the caribeana gave way it was an arbocare one and was only a year or so old. . . has any one else had this happen to them?. .

[Rupe]

Sounds like you were abusing it! How was it set up? What was it for etc etc?

 

If you were running a lowering rope through it and snatching the top out in big sections then of course its gonna break!!

 

Explain further please.

[Rupe]

And I'm not familiar with that karabiner, is it steel or alloy? Whats the rating on it?

[arbutus]

Gave Way......what were you doing with it....not lower this "huge ash" with it

[arbutus]

:blushing:lowering......i mean

[swinny]

nothing wrong with good old knots

[Sully]

was it a steel krab?

[baileyben]

was a steel karibeaner and was rated at 30kn and it wasnt a huge piece of tree really. . we had lowered the same size/weight section out of an other ash tree on the same job yeasterday. . . . . it could have just been the shock of the tree was too much for it. . . or we were abusing it? . .just seemed a bit extreme to me. . . btw we still havnt found the karibener to see how it broke. . .

[baileyben]

ARBO-SAFE was the karibena

[Pete Mctree]

Do you have any pictures?