What necessity to carry a spanner?AliRoll said:Our club uses Screw gate Krabs almost exclusively for rigging, there are large strings of maillons sitting in our gear store that simply don't get used due to there fiddly nature and the necessity to carry a spanner.
I'm certainly not obsessive about maintenance, but excluding maillons used in long-term fixed rigging, I can't remember having the need to use a spanner underground to release maillons or adequately do them up.
If they're meaningfully hard to open/close, I either fettle them or throw them away, rather than using them on a trip.
Carrying a spanner would mean I hadn't really been keeping up even with my level of gear checking.
And personally, I find half-decent maillons don't seem hugely different from crabs in terms of rigging speed - it seems to be somewhat a case of swings and roundabouts.