Has this ever happened to anyone?

[NCTREE]

I was spiking a poplar today and this happened. Buckingham titaniums snapped in half.

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[Thornton]

Dang hope your leg didn't break with it
What happened your ankle strap break or come lose?

 

[arbortechy1]

Wow, I'm glad I went with geckos, I thought about getting those. Get you some geckos. I've never seen anything like it man.


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[Zale]

Never seen that. How old are they?

 

[imagineero]

Never seen or even heard of that. Those look an awful lot like my buckinham steels. I can't imagine there is anything you can do to cause that to happen. I'd be at least sending a photo of that to buckingham. Might offer to replace it for you, regardless of how long you've had it. I'd be thinking manufacturing defect.

 

[Zale]

Think your girlfriend or wife might have it in for you? I watch a lot of CSI.

 

[Toddppm]

I bet they have the same warranty as the ZigZag, since you didn't die we'll give you a new one!

 

[tree MDS]

This is one of the reasons I don't do any free climbing (ever). Yikes!!

 

[treeclimber101]

Jesus man ..... Wow that is scary to say the least , obviously all is we'll but that's some sketchiness right there

 

[NCTREE]

My ankle is ok, it hurt when it happened. I was on my way down chunking down the trunk. I noticed the other spike was flexing when I stepped in on it. Buckingham has a new pair on its way already.

 

[EcoTreeCo]

Ive never seen that or even considered that to be a possibility. Shoot.

 

[Pelorus]

Kleins.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

JPS cracked one of his ali spurs.

They say these lighter metals are as strong or stronger than steal pound for pound. So since the Ti spikes are lighter than steal they are weaker?

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Kleins.

Beat someone to death with one and go back to climbing no problem!

 

[Peter.s]

JPS cracked one of his ali spurs.

They say these lighter metals are as strong or stronger than steal pound for pound. So since the Ti spikes are lighter than steal they are weaker?

stuff made of weaker material is generally made with more material to make up for the inherent weakness.
(usually they put enough material in there to make it lighter and stronger)

 

[Shaunbobby]

Heard of this happening to a friend of mine that is almost 60,
He's broken a couple over his long climbing career,both times it was the left one

 

[ggoodman]

damn that would be a pisser and why I use a bail out line.

 

[treeclimber101]

damn that would be a pisser and why I use a bail out line.

Bail out line ? Huh

 

[ggoodman]

line in case I need to bail out and cant climb down.

 

[TreeAce]

Bashlins. This happened about 2 months ago. I climbed on them for a long time and expected them to last the rest of my career. Guess not. Think they would replace them? I assumed not because I have had them so long. No harm done when it happened but there coulda been. I was climbing down but was tied in but not in a way that I was totally hanging from line. Tree had an odd angle back under me, like when u look down n can't see the trunk but u know it's there. It's a trickyer move and musta put an odd strain on the spur. Not that it is ok.