ian mckenzie
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Question: which is most popular - using your long cowstail as your upper jammer safety, or keeping your safety and cowstails separate?
I could be wrong, but I imagine he'll have a krab on the end of his long cowstail as per usual, and he'll just unclip it from his hand-jammer when he's near the top of the pitch so he can clip in, still leaving the hand-jammer on the rope. Personally, I prefer the luxury of having the permanent safety connection - at least if it's permanently attached to your person, then there's no risk of having to abseil back down the pitch, to retrieve the hand jammer you inadvertently dropped from the top of the pitch!Rachel said:'scuse me for sounding thick, but if your hand jammer is on the end of your long cowstail, how on earth do you go about clipping in when you get to the top of the pitch? I suppose if your short cowstail was long (contradiction there!) it'd do the job, but otherwise you'd have to take one jammer off the rope - not for me, thanks.
Yup - pretty much tried and tested system in UK is 2 cows tails - 1 long/one short - dynamic climing rope - for shock loading reasons
There are some places where I want as much stuff attached as possible, especially when I am feeling a bit hungover :wink:who likes to be attached by both jammers, cowstails and teeth
The only reason they give is to save weight.
Titch98 said:The only reason they give is to save weight.
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What weight?
The safety is made from rope, not steel cable!
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