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Re: [caughtinside] Is the n00b right? (AKA "Do top rope anchors need a locker?"):
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ptlong
Jun 17, 2010, 10:10 PM
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caughtinside wrote: jt512 wrote: When you write a book, you have to be very conservative, so, based on these results, I'd probably say that a minimum setup would be a locker and a non-locker. But there is nothing here that convinces me, that for my own purposes, two non-locking quickdraws is inadequate. Jay I learned a fair bit from the old Long anchor books, and I recall (don't have those books anymore) that it said two non locking opposite and opposed biners was adequate. This suggestion that a locker on the power point is mandatory is news to me, but I haven't read the new version of Long's anchor book.
At least a couple of the more recent Long books do say to include a locker. Is that because more has been learned?
Here's a clip from a respected how-to book from the early 1980s:
(This post was edited by ptlong on Jun 17, 2010, 10:12 PM)
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