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Old 12th February 2008, 12:40 AM   #34 (permalink)
Therrin
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Default Re: New prussik technique...

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You don't trust your life to anything that screws? Then give me the car keys and start walking. You can't get away from things that are screwed and bolted together.
I'm not sure that that is a good correlation. You can at least just sit in your car, in your driveway, and not have your life literally hanging in the balance.

As for a screw and a bolt, it's the material you're securing with it, and how much surface area you can get into contact with the parent material. Hadn't heard that from any of my machine shop buddies before <scratches head>
There's a huge difference.

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Prusiks scare me...they don't pass slip-grab rope tests as well as other hitches.
Could you name a few? I mean, without going and doing research first? Perhaps you could have mentioned specifics you had in mind, and why you like them, plus why you use them?
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