Think of the via ferrata equipment like an airbag. It's a once use piece of equipment there to save your life. Think of climbing ropes like a seat-belt. Will restrain you a number of times during heavy breaking, but eventually will wear out. Just don't fall on a via ferrata route!
The way this chunk of wood fell indicates that a human falling in a likewise fashion would turn upside down and meet rock with his head. Helmet or not your neck is guaranteed to enter your chest. So kind of pointless cheering about how the line unwound... You should therefore test with a crash dummy, not with a log, and record points of impact and measure forces in those spots.
So these sets make sense but are also kind of pointless??is it not safer to attach your self with a shorter climbing rope or anchor rope and the Ferrata set? Yes it’s more time consuming but….?
This doesnt work often manuevering around the hill and would only "work" in horizontal climbs. Once you start climbing vertical you need a Via Ferrata kit because if you fall a combined 3+ meters down and get abruptly stopped by your short rope your back is gonna be broken.
If you fall, the situation is tricky. The lanyards are one use only, you can't fall again. It's even trickier if you fall on a traverse because you could just end up hanging in incredible exposure with no obvious route to climb back up to the cable. So, either the party needs a spare lanyard or a rope and friction device. Someone would have to come and get you, rope you up to a ledge and then give you a new lanyard. The funny thing about Via Ferrata is that is both much easier than sport or trad climbing but also much scarier in many ways. Most climbers have fallen tens or hundreds or imes and you learn to trust the rope and your belayer, but how can you ever know that a Via Ferrata lanyard will hold you? So in the back of your mind, whilst up thousands of feet is always the idea that if I fall not only would it be a shitty high drop, there is a chance the lanyard breaks and I fall forever. Kind of crystallises the brain to not falling!
@@jana31415 The company would have to recall all its products of this model. It happened in 2012, after one person died in Austria. This accident made several other companies recall their products too, because they realized that they had the same issue.
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Think of the via ferrata equipment like an airbag. It's a once use piece of equipment there to save your life. Think of climbing ropes like a seat-belt. Will restrain you a number of times during heavy breaking, but eventually will wear out. Just don't fall on a via ferrata route!
Nice field test. We are sharing...
Thank you for sharing...
The way this chunk of wood fell indicates that a human falling in a likewise fashion would turn upside down and meet rock with his head. Helmet or not your neck is guaranteed to enter your chest. So kind of pointless cheering about how the line unwound... You should therefore test with a crash dummy, not with a log, and record points of impact and measure forces in those spots.
its not about saving your head its to keep your back from snapping
So these sets make sense but are also kind of pointless??is it not safer to attach your self with a shorter climbing rope or anchor rope and the Ferrata set? Yes it’s more time consuming but….?
This doesnt work often manuevering around the hill and would only "work" in horizontal climbs. Once you start climbing vertical you need a Via Ferrata kit because if you fall a combined 3+ meters down and get abruptly stopped by your short rope your back is gonna be broken.
if you fell, how do you regain your lost position? or you just have to wait for someone to help. you get up?
If you fall, the situation is tricky. The lanyards are one use only, you can't fall again. It's even trickier if you fall on a traverse because you could just end up hanging in incredible exposure with no obvious route to climb back up to the cable. So, either the party needs a spare lanyard or a rope and friction device. Someone would have to come and get you, rope you up to a ledge and then give you a new lanyard. The funny thing about Via Ferrata is that is both much easier than sport or trad climbing but also much scarier in many ways. Most climbers have fallen tens or hundreds or imes and you learn to trust the rope and your belayer, but how can you ever know that a Via Ferrata lanyard will hold you? So in the back of your mind, whilst up thousands of feet is always the idea that if I fall not only would it be a shitty high drop, there is a chance the lanyard breaks and I fall forever. Kind of crystallises the brain to not falling!
1st rule Never climb alone; 2nd rule Know your abilities... If you fall and you are alone and climb is over your alilities call rescue team!
@@obscurelines if it breaks, the company producing it will have a very big problem.
@@jana31415 The company would have to recall all its products of this model. It happened in 2012, after one person died in Austria. This accident made several other companies recall their products too, because they realized that they had the same issue.
@@jana31415 even bigger problem for the person it failed on lol
The advice is, don't fall.
this video is important but could be very much informative if better