Favorite steel biner

[Bounce]

What is your favorite steel carabiner and why? This is my favorite, mainly because of the 72 kN strength and the swing side gate. It's made by Omega Pacific here in WA state. I use it for rigging, redirects, just about any non-life support application (because it isn't positive locking).

 

[edenarb]

Only ever use this one (at the moment!)

http://www.fletcherstewart.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=IS-KH455SS2

 

[SkwerI]

Sean, I had a couple OP rigging biners several years ago. They were ok but I dislike the pinned gate that snags the rope every time you hook it. And then the spring fell out of the gate on one so I quit using them. They looked identical to the picture you posted except without the swing gate and the rating was slightly less.

My favorite steel rigging biner for the last several years has been a Kong. Keyed gate, wide opening and over 11K lbs rating. It just fits my hand perfectly. The size is almost exactly the same as the Petzl William.

 

[Wagnaw]

The Kongs. I have a bunch of the posi-locking with steel gates, and I just ordered more from Wespur. They have plastic gates now though.

 

[SkwerI]

I had some bad experiences with the crappy plastic gates. Plus the steel is notched out for the plastic gate to open and I cannot see how that couldn't compromise strength in an overloading situation. The two I have with plastic gates hang on my trash trailer and get used for tie downs, nothing more.

 

[Bounce]

The Kongs. I have a bunch of the posi-locking with steel gates, and I just ordered more from Wespur. They have plastic gates now though.

Stupid Kong. That steel-gated auto locker was the most popular one when they discontinued it. I know that plastics these days can be as strong as steel, but it's hard to convince the butterflies in my stomach of this when I'm hanging from it.

 

[Wagnaw]

It's that the steel ones just didn't seem phased by pitch as much. Plastic gates seem way more affected for some reason.

 

[rumination]

I've been using the ISC auto lockers for a while now. They've got an HMS shape, which neither excites me nor bothers me. They have a key lock gate now, which is very nice.