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In sky diving you have a cut away for obvious reasons.

Why do they have cut aways on a BASE rig? Once you cut away your going to find the ground rather quickly

Also. Do you know of or have you ever cut away?

i cut away once, because i was missing 2 cells on my canopy...

A few reasons I could think of are:

a) water landings (very important)
b) tree landing
c) light pole landings
d) convenient rig swapping (canopies/containers)

1. building jump, canopy snagged a fence, needed to run.

2. intentional cutaway jump wearing 2 rigs. was cool.

3. had a guy stuck in a tree. he chopped once we had him hooked to a rope rescue system.

if I didn't have 3 rings I'd make sure to have slinks and a hook knife.

OK. So it isnt in Air that u use the cut away system. Thanks for clearing it up. I read these forums daily but nobody, i belive, has ever questioned the cut away and the "what next factor"

Arent you better off missing two cells than losing your canopy?

If your "up there" I assume that every square foot of nylon is a blessing? am i wrong?

Sorry for n00bness?

I cutaway a security guard once. I'd just landed in the street and he had me by the pilot chute. I chopped him and while he was falling on his ass I ran . . .

And another time I broke both my legs crashing into some rocks and while I was laying on dry land my canopy was in a river. The current started dragging me into the water and if I hadn't been able to cutaway I'm pretty sure I would have drowned.

NickD
BASE 194

I also use my cut away when I feel I have to pack up and run real quick.

I stash my canopy while still wearing my harness / helmet, I run back to the car with my gear still on but my canopy stashed. On arrivel at the car I pull my cut away, toss my rigg in the passenger foot well and drive off still wearing my harness. this is also good if you need to get over a fence on the way out. Stash and cut the canopy toss it ove and then climb with your harness on.

My cut away just gives me options:

Let me get this straight. You actually believe that some one would cut away in the air on a single canopy rig? Does this really need clearing up? Did you think were are INVINCIBLE? Sorry to be hard on you but I do realize that it is better to ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer than to not ask and remain stupid.
Take care,
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I personally don't like cutaways on most of the jumps I do. I 'disabled' the cutaway on one of my rigs. but I would not jump NRGB without a cutaway, or several of jumps involving or potentially involving water.

The only time i foul my three ring now would be on AM towers. I know there was a guy whose hardware got so hot it burned through the little white loop . . .

NickD
BASE 194

So whats the best way to "back up" your 3 rings? I have heard of people s-linking them together...

Thoughts?

I take 2mm climbing cord, OR .8mm Kevlar kernmantle paragliding line (pure spectra or dacron or closing loop nylon or anything like it does not knot reliably) and I wrap the riser, routing through the cutaway loop on the 3ring(with it assembled regularly), 3-6 times TWICE, so each riser has been 'locked' in twice by two seperate triple-knoted and cinched strong cords. Then I remove the cutaway entirely.

Interesting... Do you have any stills of this setup?

for what reason??

well, they theoreticaly could come apart with rough use or climbing/crawling though places, they could be mis-rigged, but in all reality, I like not having to think of it. I dont feel comfy doing a gear check at the bottom of tower with a hour long 1800' climb. I like doing the check at the top befreo exit.

its just warm fuzzies.

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look at me, posting pics of my rig set up so you guys can make fun of me.

but at least its a warlock, the coolest container ever made. you know your jealous.

Can someone please list the pros and cons of using a connector link to connect the large/medium or medium/small rings together? Thanks.

If the links allow too much freedom of movement for the rings, here's what can happen (assuming that the loop failed or you're not using it): the smallest ring gets half through the medium ring, the medium gets half through the large ring. The 3-ring system is based on the leverage principle: say, 1/10th of the force on the large ring gets transmitted to the medium ring, and 1/10th of that is transmitted to the small ring, and 1/10th of that is transmitted to the loop, so 5lbs force on loop/cable can hold 5000lbs load on risers (numbers are for illustration only). When the rings can partially get through each other, that leverage factor is greatly reduced, say, it's now 2*2*2 = only 8. The result can be catastrophic.

 

If you don't want three rings, get integrated risers. As previously stated, these are probably not the hot ticket for jumping near a body of water though...

Are you talking about Steve Jester? he told me once that happened when he was jumping skydiving gear back in the day and he cut away and fired his round reserve..

Sorry. Please enlighten me.

Who the hell climbs on an AM tower? That shit is cup o' cancer.

>>Who the hell climbs on an AM tower? That shit is cup o' cancer.<<

I really meant that in the past tense, sorry. There was a time we didn't fully realize the health dangers of AM towers.

NickD
BASE 194

Calvin,

Link didn't work unfortunately....

yeah, i deleted the album. I just now uploaded the pics in my photos on this sight... i have no idea how to attatch things, or how to make p=magic pics appear on the post.

Hi,

Iam looking for a SEPARABLE D-RING instead of an actually SEPARABLE CONNECTOR LINK to mount on my risers a cut away (cheaper way)... the problem is that my rigger doesn't find it in France, and it seems that those find on Para-Gear are not the good one. Have you an idear?
Thanks.