Breaking Gear on Purpose

[Old Monkey]

I have been thinking about sending in some of my older gear to get break tested. Has anyone ever done that? I think it would be interesting to see how much holding power my ropes have left when I think they are about ready to be retired. Same with carabiners.

 

[sotc]

i think no bivy did a few

 

[Paul B]

cool idea.

 

[Old Monkey]

i think no bivy did a few

I remember that now. 41 and I can't remember much any more.

 

[sotc]

i think he put a vid up on youtube but i dont know wha his user name is there

 

[SkwerI]

I think it's waste100 or something like that. Yup, here is his profile page.
http://www.youtube.com/user/waste100

Looks like he has some fans...

 

[SkwerI]

Here's his videos

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[Will]

sometimes i think our groundies break gear on perpose.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sometimes I break groundies on purpose.

 

[No_Bivy]

I like breaking stuff......gives you a bit more confidence in the gear your riding. Darin, any commercial sewing places there? they may have a test machine.

who are all those subscribers...?bots?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Horny bots, it seems.

 

[Will]

Sometimes I break groundies on purpose.

I clocked my new groundie with a branch yesterday, wasnt no purpose though.

 

[gf beranek]

Northwest labs in Seattle will break test anything you send them. For a nominal fee of course.

I sent them a short hank of rope that I put in a tree in 1988. 13 years hanging and swinging in the breeze. It broke at 3300 pounds, about half of its original rating.

 

[PCTREE]

last fall I was putting together a 600' zipp line system for a big ugly dead white oak behind a house. Only access was down a flight of steps, up 2 flights and across a deck. We were going to zip it all out over house wood and all so I was a little concerned with stuff breaking. I set up an imitation system in my shop with the prussics that would attatch it to my loader to tension zip line , other end was spliced to go around another tree. The prussics kept slipping at about 3500 lbs which was cool to know that we couldnt break things by pulling to hard. Oh yeah the point of the post was I bought a little gismo caalled I believe a LOAD CELL, we hooked it up to a computer and put it on the end of a hydraulic cylinder and pulled stuff till it broke. Pretty fun.....

 

[NickfromWI]

I have a local rigging shop that will do 6 breaks for $150. They will let me video each break Catch is they can't break things over 10,000 pounds.

love
nick

 

[NeTree]

Nick, I can do the same thing where I work, and save ya the $150. I can also expose the material to anything from a 3.0 to a 13.5 pH, and from room temp to almost 2000 degrees.

Didn't catch it on video, but broke some older HI-V I had a few weeks ago... 4340#. Not bad for sitting in my truck a few years exposed to lord knows what!

 

[Bounce]

Heck you guys, feel free to send anything you want broken to me and I'll break it for nothin. Just don't ask me what it broke at.

 

[Burnham]

Heck you guys, feel free to send anything you want broken to me and I'll break it for nothin. Just don't ask me what it broke at.

Heck, I'll go ya one better'n Bouncie...I'll break your stuff and tell you whether it broke hard or easy .

 

[NeTree]

:LOL:

 

[sotc]

Heck, I'll go ya one better'n Bouncie...I'll break your stuff and tell you whether it broke hard or easy .

ok here comes my anvil!

 

[Burnham]

Save the shipping, bro...I'll tell ya right now that's gonna break HARD!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hahaha!

 

[No_Bivy]

10k...what kinda machine is that? Here, machine will go over 100k

 

[NickfromWI]

They just use their machine to proof-load stuff before they install it. Usually just swaged steel and stuff like that. They have a rope splicing crew, too..but their work is very sloppy.

NeTree- you're on!

love
nick

 

[gf beranek]

I got to bring down the 12 KV a couple of times. Told all the boss's, "I'm not sending any of my crew up there, or myself." Face cut, back cut, Ft. Bragg to Mendocino out of power.

That was quality time.