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Advice on half ropes 13-Jan-2013 At 1:21:59 AM wallwombat

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On 13/01/2013 strerror wrote:
>. Does this match other people's understanding
>/ experience?

No

>Am I simply to big to climb on half ropes safely (or safely
>for one fall only!) ?

No

>On a related note is it accurate to say that when using a half rope system,
>though it's obviously situation dependent, it's relatively common to really
>only be falling on effectively one strand?

Yes.

Use double 9.2 mm's, if you you are that worried and you think you are a fatty.

Personally I wouldn't sweat on it.

John Long had (and has) about 25 kg on you.

You could probably hang your car off a modern double rope and the whole point is you have TWO ropes - if something goes snafu with one rope, you have a back up