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The big trad gear destructo challenge 11-Nov-2010 At 5:19:28 PM voodoo
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On 11/11/2010 Wendy wrote:
>Just to detour briefly, what do you reckon about use of a grigri with
>trad gear? Back when they first came out, it seemed generally accepted
>as a no no, but now I see more and more people using these or similar devices
>on trad gear. Do they increase impact forces?

Just to split hairs for a moment, shouldn't the criticism levelled at the grigri in a trad situation not be that it increases impact forces but that it fails to decrease them (in the way that a slightly slipping plate-device might)? I make this distinction on the basis that the fast lock-off of the grigri isn't going to increase the rated impact-force of the rope (as dictated by rope elongation), whereas a softer-belay (either through slip, or better still dynamic belayer) will effectively reduce it.

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