During 2023 Petzl released an updated version to the long-discontinued Mini Traxion. What makes the new Mini Traxion stand out from the others then?
Author:Pete
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Aberllyn Rigging Guide
Aberllyn Lead/Zinc mine is an excellent, all be it crumbly, trip near to Betws y Coed. There is a good SRT route down through the mine that gives the explorer a good workout whist also offering some opportunity to practice the proper vertical stuff that many of the angled slabby slate mine routes lack. Below …
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Near Miss – April 2022
A near miss report following an incident caused by the interaction between a Petzl RIG and Micro Traxion.
Weather for the Castleton area
Weather resources and links for the local caver.
Tutor XG rope – Nov 2019 Update
As written about in a previous blog post, I have been testing some rope that was kindly given to me by Spanset. The rope is Teufelberger Tutor XG, a 10mm semi-static Type A.A few months on and with a good bit of use made of it so far, I thought it was time for a …
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Tutor XG rope test – Thanks to Spanset
I have spent some time at Spanset in Middlewich over the last couple of months, doing my IRATA L1 and a few other bits. Some of you will perhaps know that Spanset have been particularly friendly to cavers, donating large amounts of new rope to expedition groups and competition winners on places like UKCaving forum. …
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Mineral ID
It is sometimes really hard to relate the minerals I see underground to the professional sample pictures on places like Wiki and Google. All I wanted was to be sure that what I saw was a certain thing. Well, I’ve started a Flickr album showing actual minerals in actual mines in the hope that I …
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New Petzl Stop
Rumers have been circulating for a while now about a redesigned Petzl Stop being in development and test. The first pictures have now emerged following an expo in China. Thanks to Qi Woo for posting these on the Rope Test Lab Facebook Group. I have made a few limited observations based on these few images. …
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Testing the strength of heavy duty caving belts
A Method of Testing the Strength of Heavy Duty Caving Belts The aim of this was to establish a method to test the strength of heavy duty caving belts that did not rely on having access to a load cell. I hoped to produce a simple system that needed very little equipment and that would …
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Worn Connectors – Pull Testing 11-6-2017
Over the last few months I’ve been collecting a few bits of retired equipment from stores checks and ‘isolation’ bins with a view to looking at loss of strength due to wear. Nothing here constitutes a scientific test and this is purely for my own satisfaction, but I’m writing it up anyway. I used my …
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