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Warning: 169 kg breaking strength lower offs 3-Apr-2009 At 12:33:32 PM adrian

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On 3/04/2009 nmonteith wrote:
>Hate to burst your bubble - but most of the chains, shackles and mallions
>used on anchors are unrated and come from hardware stores (or the tow bar
>of 4WD's in darkened carparks). I have no issue with using these sort of
>items, but there always needs to be redundancy in the system. Relying on
>one of these clip and go biners is the problem.

Okay, so I should have worded that more carefully - by traditional shackles/mallions I mean rated items. Rated chain, mallions, shackles, captive biners etc are all available, so we should be using them. If cost is an issue, wouldn't it be better for people to put up fewer routes that are properly equipped, than more routes that have crap hardware?