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biner breaks on Forever Young 14-Dec-2011 At 7:16:08 PM citationx

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On 12/12/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>On 12/12/2011 shortman wrote:
>>Were u using double ropes?
>
>I should have explained better. I didn't cut the rope fully, just sliced
>through the whole sheeth on a fall. I've had it happen twice, both times
>with no sharp rock edges - i think the sharp gates of biners can cut ropes.
>That's my theory anyway.
>
>
>This is from one incident - at Werribie Gorge of all places.

I agree about the stripping/sharp gates on biners. Funnily enough it was when none other than ben wiessner was belaying me at st peters years ago (you're turning it into a habit, ben). when i fell leading the rope came taught against one of the ends of the gate and the sharpness cut the sheath. looked similar to yours. It was an omega pacific biner. I posted about it on here somewhere. the distributor said OP may contact me for details, but instead they just did their own dependent-independent testing and said that it must've been something ben or I did wrong because their own dependent-independent test proved that their biners were still the best in the market. :-)