Cerealkiller
Treehouser
Hello all, this is my first thread started here but I recognize a lot of ya'll from treebuzz and some of ya from YouTube...
Recently in the other forum we're, as we do, discussing gear and I noticed a good number of people saying they preferred the petzl ball locks on their positioning lanyards so having never tried one I asked about it and eventually a member there PM'd me that he was gonna send me a few of them to try.
I received them last week, put them on my lanyard and I hate them, still haven't gotten used to the action, can't find the ball without looking, ect. In warm weather I climb bare hand, it was still warm last week and I thought I might of been starting to get it but the cold showed up yesterday and now after just day 2 of gloves I want to toss them down the sewer grate as we speed away from the jobsite!
Are these things really so special I should keep at it till the muscle memory comes? If I paid retail for them I would of already said F it but since they were given to me I feel like I should try a little longer. Will they eventually click for me? I feel now that unlike other carabiners they have an upside down (ball facing you vs ball facing away) and therefore there's a right and a wrong way to clip in. For being advertised as providing visual confirmation of locking it seems like a pretty big design oversight that the lock indicator / mechanism can be on the down side totally invisible to the user just because you clipped it from the left instead of from the right.
Anyway rant over. So whats the general consensus here? Stick with them or change back to what I know works?
Recently in the other forum we're, as we do, discussing gear and I noticed a good number of people saying they preferred the petzl ball locks on their positioning lanyards so having never tried one I asked about it and eventually a member there PM'd me that he was gonna send me a few of them to try.
I received them last week, put them on my lanyard and I hate them, still haven't gotten used to the action, can't find the ball without looking, ect. In warm weather I climb bare hand, it was still warm last week and I thought I might of been starting to get it but the cold showed up yesterday and now after just day 2 of gloves I want to toss them down the sewer grate as we speed away from the jobsite!
Are these things really so special I should keep at it till the muscle memory comes? If I paid retail for them I would of already said F it but since they were given to me I feel like I should try a little longer. Will they eventually click for me? I feel now that unlike other carabiners they have an upside down (ball facing you vs ball facing away) and therefore there's a right and a wrong way to clip in. For being advertised as providing visual confirmation of locking it seems like a pretty big design oversight that the lock indicator / mechanism can be on the down side totally invisible to the user just because you clipped it from the left instead of from the right.
Anyway rant over. So whats the general consensus here? Stick with them or change back to what I know works?
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