What Karabiner?

[Grandad]

Haha,i meant are you using them for a prussik, hitchclimber etc? Different shapes for different applications. If it's a prussik line you're best off going for whatever fits your hand and feels best

 

A prussik, still don't know what a hitchclimber is and wouldn't have known that a different krab would be needed for one either. Thanks for the advice all, I think I'll be going for what I know: DMM locksafe.

Mesterh: funny!! Actually I still have the screwgate twitch: check it is still tight at every pause...

 

How am I doing with the new jargon? Never called them "krabs", always karabiners; still prefer strop to flip line.

[Dan Curtis]

:sneaky2:Technically a flip line is a different thing to a strop...

 

I think people are starting to make up words just to confuse each other, like a secret arb language!

 

If you're putting a kit together you should join us on the next social climbing event!

[Grandad]

:sneaky2:Technically a flip line is a different thing to a strop...

 

I think people are starting to make up words just to confuse each other, like a secret arb language!

 

If you're putting a kit together you should join us on the next social climbing event!

 

To me a strop is a short length of rope spliced up for a special purpose, in this case as a tool to hold one in place on the tree such as whilst lofting the climbing rope higher up or when chogging down. It is what we called them anyway, the new term flip line is a good one, very descriptive and an excellent alternative to strop, I just never heard it used 20 years ago. Perhaps flip line is only used to refer to the wire cores? We called them spiking strops.

 

I think that you might have a point about people making up words; it is how esoteric jargon develops I suppose.

 

I would like to meet some of you on a social get-together, we will have to see how things go...