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Daisy Chain Failure 3-Jul-2006 At 5:14:05 PM Ronny

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The reason this is dodgy is that if you rip open all of the small bar tacks between the two loops that the biner is clipped to you are not clipped into the sling that's left. These tacks are not as strong as normal sling stitching because there's usually only one of them, and also because when you weight them you're pulling the stitches apart, rather than a sort of 'shear' force on normal sown slings. (Don't know if this angle thing makes that much difference with stitching - it makes a large difference with swages on wire rope).

This won't happen if you just give the daisy a couple of twists (or just one will do) before clipping the higher loop. If you do that and break all the stitching then you are still clipped into the resulting sling. This might be unsafe though in practice because with the clusterf*ck at a belay it might be difficult to tell whether you'd actually put the twists in or not.

J