Re: Ancient Gear
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:59 pm
dadndave wrote:Steve1215 wrote:dadndave wrote:Oh and I still have, use and love my figure-eight descender
i got talked into buying my figure 8 in about 1995 I think. did such high-falutin, newfangled technology exist then? before that it was strictly carabiner brake rappels, for 2 decades or so...
do the young uns know how to rap with a carabiner brake?
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My guess is yes. Not too many people wouldn't know to use cross crabs if they dropped their descender surely?
Anyway, The figure eight was around before the nineties. I know for sure that I had mine in the 80's.
Cross carabiners? You can just pass the rope around your back and under your leg of course. That's what they taught us in '77 - the rope burns on my back and arms eventually healed.
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