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Above 17
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Below 36
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I don't use an autolock system while abseiling 18
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Topic Date User
Prussic while abseiling - above or below device? 1-Aug-2012 At 12:44:20 PM muki
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On 1/08/2012 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>@ Muki
>>bar tack
>
>I doubt that you or I would be happy to rely on a bar tack in the end
>of a cinch strap preventing an interesting circumstance in a climbing situation,
>... given that neither of us rig that way. ;-)
>(I note that you are not advocating that it would have). ☺
>~> I reckon that even bodyweight loading could strip a bar tacked cinch
>strap out of one of those buckles! ... and if that happened then the backup
>prussik would easily ride up into the abseil device.

I'm sure that by the time the buckle has loosened and opened up then this prusick is already in the belay device, ubless the device is set up remotley as in the diagram curtesy of WW, with a sling.

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