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My analogy. You go to REI or wherever to buy some carabiners and rope for your next rock climbing trip. Intermingled amongst these are carabiners made of cheap
by function_seven 4y ago
My analogy. You go to REI or wherever to buy some carabiners and rope for your next rock climbing trip. Intermingled amongst these are carabiners made of cheap pot metal and ropes intended for [tying down cargo] rather than climbing.
Both products are legal, but are definitely not deserving of similar placement within the store.
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- HWR_14 4y agoI thought rigging ropes and climbing ropes were the same ropes. No?
- function_seven 4y agoI think I used the wrong term. Or a vague one. I'm talking about the difference between a rope used to tie down cargo in a truck and one used by a climber for safety. Doing a quick search for "rigging rope" shows me all sorts of tree-climbing ropes as well, so I should have said "cargo hold down rope" or something.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoI don't believe so. Climbing ropes deliberately have a one-time certain amount of stretch to them. (And if you take a fall that uses that stretch you retire the rope.) While climbing is not my thing I definitely know REI sells the climbing carabiners with the climbing stuff and the lightweight equipment ones in a different part of the store. I don't need a big safety-rated bit carabiner to attach a 4oz sitting pad to the outside of my pack!