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rickoldskool
Jun 23, 2002, 7:15 AM
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It's an old term used in reference to crucifixions.
Ohh, jeez I crack me up. Somebody answer this I'm laughing too hard to type
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kahuna3602
Jun 23, 2002, 10:59 AM
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Cross Loading, as I understand it, is to put load on a piece of equipment, like a beiner, opposite the way it way designed for maximum strength. For instance in a beiner the load should be on the loops or bends whatever you call them,not on the straight part or god forbid the gate.
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blindslap
Jun 23, 2002, 3:36 PM
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think of it like this...
If you have a vertical sling, just hanging and you clip a biner' into it, then say you clip another sling into that biner', then to your rope. so now you have a sling, a biner' a sling and a biner' the last biner' is to your rope. (the first sling is in an imaginary bolt) then, as you climb up theres some rope drag and one of the biner's get's rotated so that it's not hanging vertical, it's horizontal to the slings and rocks. If you fall, that's cross loading, or loading the carabiner in the opposite direction that it's supposed to be loaded.
hope you can make sense of this mess.
(don't ever tie slings directly to bolts!!!)
[ This Message was edited by: blindslap on 2002-06-23 08:38 ]
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stevematthys
Jun 23, 2002, 5:51 PM
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yea i understand, so basically it is putting weight on the spine or the gate of a biner, corecct?
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