What caving related thing did you do today?

[mikem]

Are you sure? CE marked maillons (in this link) are only rated for longitudinal load, while PPE certified maillons (this link) are 55kN on the long axis but only 10kN on cross loading.

Something I didn't know until I looked up those figures is that PPE maillons are a minimum of 8mm diameter.

You're not going to break the gate on a maillon no matter which way you twist it, whereas it is possible on a krab (it's also pretty difficult to load a narrow maillon sideways)

 

[alanw]

You're not going to break the gate on a maillon no matter which way you twist it, whereas it is possible on a krab

My previous comment on this (there's a PDF linked from it)

which carabiners for anchors

Many years ago I was present, IIRC at the BMC premises in South Manchester, when Neville McMillan demonstrated how little force is required on a misaligned figure-of-eight to break the gate-locking sleeve and open the karabiner. I'd be interested to know whether a similar misalignment can happen...

ukcaving.com

 

[PeteHall]

Celebrated exactly half my life as a caver, by struggling to keep up with the kids in Eglwys Faen.

A quick excel calculation a few weeks ago, showed that I was approaching this momentous milestone, so it would have been rude not to head underground.
[[Date of first caving trip*]-[DOB]]+[Date of first caving trip] = 12/10/2024

*I've excluded an instructor-led trip as a teenager, and assumed my first trip to be my first trip with my first caving club.

 

[deffonotmaria]

Currently sat in a lecture talking about Palaeolithic cave art - the lecturer just asked what would anyone want in the darkest depths of the cave where the light doesn't reach... I also didn't know they were making rope out of reindeer hair

 

[Babyhagrid]

Draft tested a dig with a frying pan of bacon by accident

 

[JAA]

Washed kit. Revealed a message. True fact.

 

[JAA]

 

[amw]

I went caving and complete the through trip of the Grotte des Barbizonnières in the Forêt de Fontainebleau

 

[Ian P]

Spent the evening building “caves” for tomorrow’s rigging workshop.

 

[Pitlamp]

Nice joinery (as ever!)

 

[JAshley73]

Put my cavings skills to use with a hands & knees crawl, along the edge of a considerable cliff face. Turns out it quickly dead-ended, but was a fine way to waste a few minutes outdoors.

 

[Fulk]

Nice one, JA . . . it looks a bit scary.

 

[JAshley73]

Nice one, JA . . . it looks a bit scary.

Nah... More than enough room horizontally to get by comfortably. I've done sketchier moves in caves. This one was just better-lit...

 

[braveduck]

Made 7 new Digging buckets .

 

[JAA]

Brown Hill Pot was no problem.
Twisting “a bit funny as I sneezed” afterwards however……

 

[pwhole]

I too am suffering - from a seized lower back, after a trip on Saturday, so just waiting now. To be fair, it had started hurting on Friday night, so definitely work caused it rather than caving, but I'm not doing either until this relaxes!

 

[Babyhagrid]

(yesterday)
Tried capping underground for the first time
Worked a charm

 

[pwhole]

Scrubbing spraypaint from Suicide Cave - again

 

[Fulk]

Checked out the performance of my Fenix HM 50R on one of its settings.

 

[langcliffe]

Adding 4,337 images to the BSA collection on the BCRA Online Archive...