11mm No good????

[Cleetus]

Heard a story today about a LOLER inspector failing a hank of Yale Blaze on the basis that it was 11mm. I have not seen the rope but trust the person using it and he says it is safe. I know some people/companies will not let climbers use class B ropes but not because the rope is 11mm. Is there somthing I dont know or is it just another over excited LOLER inspector?

 

I splice a lot of ropes and have had all types tested, pretty much all of the 11mm ropes(blaze, blue moon, tachyon, velocity etc) actually came out stronger than standard 13mm,16 strand ropes, so if the inspector thinks a thinner rope is weaker then he is wrong.

 

As a LOLER inspector myself I would be interested in anyones opinions or thoughts as I wouldn't fail a rope due its diameter.

 

regards

 

Cleetus

[Joe]

that's just ridiculous, the loler inspector must be completely stupid.

[detritus21]

Do the new ropes not have a SWL on them. Provided you don't exceed the SWL of the rope there is nothing wrong or dangerous about it. As long as you think its safe and forfills the criteria of LOLER in that its not damaged whats the problem

[Tom D]

I've not heard that before but my inspector did say that 8mm is the minimum size for prussic cord so "Bail Out" at 7mm is a fail. I suppose there must be a minimum rope size as well.

[Rupe]

min is 11mm. Its designed for tree work, ce marked etc its fit for purpose, loler inspector is an ass. Just another example of how stupid the system is.

[Cleetus]

Totaly agree Rupe, CE marking fit for purpose etc etc, it shows how open to wrong interpritation LOLER is.

[bob]

the man got it wrong

to be exact blaze is 11.1

i think its 2454kg min breaking strain but that,s from memory

and more than anything for us its CE marked

[Chris P]

Yep LOLER inspector probaly looks at 13mm all day then gets a new bit of rope and fails it cause he thinks it a rock rope or something like that.

 

Unless that rope is shagged out. He got it wrong

[Arbocop]

it is always tricky to second geuss peoples decisions and people always do things for a reasin in this case it may be an over zelous aplication of the OLD best practice guide AFAG 401 that said USUALLY 12mm diamiter

 

but note hot off the press new afag have a look at my seperate post.

 

people do seem to look at workd like normally or resnoble and read the word must, and the new afag uses the word must

 

cheers all