Media Summary: A rope running through a carabiner can be I have never understood why this knot is taught. I see no practical use for it. Does placing two prusiks around two ropes achieve redundancy for a connection to a load?
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A rope running through a carabiner can be I have never understood why this knot is taught. I see no practical use for it. Does placing two prusiks around two ropes achieve redundancy for a connection to a load? I often use toothed rope grabs for hauling loads however I think carefully about how they will be used and the loads they will see. A simple technique to store dyneema (and other) slings. Many rope access technicians claim that we can not use a GriGri with anything but dynamic climbing rope. What does Petzl say?
Do we need to wear gloves for all rope handling operations? My favourite knot is the figure-of-8 and a few of its variants. Why? It is so versatile and so easy to inspect. Single pulleys and single rope grabs can be ganged onto the load line. This also reduce the stress at the main connection point.
