How strong are CAMP Tricams? We tested them in real rock

you guys have been asking for us to test tray cams we did try to do this in the slack snap lab and didn't work so well but we're here in real rock got some granite here we'll show you how we're all set up and we'll start with the cult level of pink tricam i think is uh what everybody loves so and then we'll test this old one as well because the sling is older than these fresh out of the package camp tri-cams with dyneema slings if you make enough requests we'll actually test it uh stay tuned [Music] [Applause] hi ryan jinx and welcome to a brake test video uh where we're going to test these tri cams and let me show you how they work real quick you know you don't really set them in like nuts though i'm sure you could you totally can't totally can you can use technically anything as nuts uh but uh if you have it like this it actively is it active at this point yeah it's active right so it actively is trying to push against the rock and it supposedly is bomber these were popular in highline all-natural rigging where we don't use bolts because they put less force on the rocks as we learned in some other brake test videos rocks like to move after brake testing almost 2 000 things now i've learned to trust gear and not trust rocks so let me show you the pink tri-cam placement that uh bobby did in case you don't like it and then you can judge for yourself what kind of a placement that is and we'll just start pulling with our 81 to 1. we'll show you that too all right so there is the tricam placement so you can see how pink tri-cams are great for finger pods but let me show you how we got this set up so we actually put a small carabiner here which will break ideally before the line scale 2 and we have the line scale 2 tied to a temporary bolt up there so when this comes out i'm hoping it falls and hangs here and doesn't bash into things and then we come down to this bfp it's a big fat pulley and it's going to redirect so we can actually pull it straight down in more of an orientation that you would get in a climbing situation and then we head over to well double smc pulleys uh next to each other so this creates basically a nine to one or a something to one then it goes all the way over here into the grigri so we can have friction so it reduces what we can use this with but yeah we are going to put some multipliers on there we're going to pull hopefully not fall and get some readings bobby what happened to the tri-cam well you can see here it looks like a chunk of it broke off the nose broke off yeah what wow all right but the sling's okay uh the sling looks fine what's it rated for nine in camming and seven in uh so it went above mbs uh you got hurt pretty bad for the first break test i hike things are looking up bobby's gonna replace it as a nut and we're gonna pull it again but safer safer people think this is fun and games this is serious what's that bobby so i found the nose of the tri-cam it was still in the crack you can see the um where it's sheared which matches that wow so uh what force did we get uh well we had a little dyno malfunction um but we believe it's above 11 that's the last that we saw on the camera all right so we're gonna switch to our other line scale to see if it's not as sensitive but you can break that one too yeah see and but i think it when it hits it just kind of wants to shut off so we're going to try to maybe pad the next one maybe we can wrap it in tree pro yeah but then you can't see the screen yeah pros and cons what do you think i don't think i think it's just shutting off because it was just sitting here and it was on for a while yeah okay bad timing yeah it might be the heat okay so we tried to pull again line scale shut off again but we're getting better at not falling nobody fell this time so we're going to switch out this line scale see how it does i also have the 50 kilonewton itself interesting result here ryan oh we have an interesting result so we have some more damage there but here um the back of it um sheared off and the pin is starting to come out what's holding the pen in like nothing on the other side oh wow any idea what uh force we had last the next time at least five at least five hmm that's good i think all right let's let's try a different one okay so it's been a minute an hour it's been an hour got new line scale uh in the system a better redirect bolt we used what a 5 8 and it was coming out so it was used a quarter inch oh it's a quarter inch okay upgrade to a 3 8 yeah so like uh it's putting a lot of force on the redirect and you know water so uh let's try to pull on the red tri-cam and i'll show you the placement right now here's the red one it's got a nice seat in the back and then the the nose is well doing nose things and we're getting close to our redirect but still high enough so we'll turn this on in a minute hopefully this catches it our poor attempt of patting it and mike still going strong after scary fall all right so we have a dyno in the uh snatch block all right we do have a peak force 14.29 [Music] yeah so it shifted and then the swing broke huh i don't remember placing it that way it didn't shift that much i think that is kind of the way we were pulling it what's interesting is how close this gets to this so it looks like what two meters between this and this is like the closest we can't really use this spot in the redirect man it's really quite complicated to set all this up how's your slow-mo oh it looks pretty cool you can see it's rated for 10 in the position that we did it and you can see how the pin is bent and the nose is gone and the swing is broken at 14 kilonewtons that's great so our next placement is a nice hand crack you can see here that it's placed in there quite nicely looks like we're rated for 20 kilonewtons oh boy but even better we're going to be playing around the corner with the same redirect going this way to the same tree so we're going to find out if this is gonna happen now why have a carabiner here is because we want this to break before the uh dynamometer so the dynamometer screen will fail around 30 even though the actual aluminum block will be stronger so um yeah i'll put a catcher right here so the dyno doesn't hit anything but yeah this is like a fuse in the system so let's find out [Music] super high force of 15 kilograms dude it broke the rock wow it exploded the rock so do you think it was just bad rock or do you think the vector forces of this angle i absolutely multiplied it oh big time you think you're picking that angle yeah i mean that's like a hey math people tell us how much force 15 kilonewtons put on this angle it's about that much it's your evaluation bobby based on seeing lots of hangers pulled to high tension i would say this was at least 20 if not 30 kilonewtons that um got put on this that's not the right shape nope uh how's our tri cam so it looks like our tri-cam is one with the rock but still holding strong same with our carabiner so uh yeah i guess we're gonna try it again so if our math is correct we're pulling 81 feet through the system for every one foot of pulled at the tricam jesus scary here hobble along let's go find out what we got science guess the force 19. 12.27 so you can see the blue fibers on the rock you can see where it was touching the rock that it cut the sling at substantially lower than i mean we did take this to 15 plus more that way but at 12.27 it's uh interesting well i got another one i'm going to stick in here we're going to see if we get a similar result but having it redirected reduces the force on this and so i was expecting it to break where the carabiner was or the carabiner break so the nose is crunched a little bit and the back is scraped but otherwise in good condition okay here's our next tricam and it's rated for 20 kilonewtons the way it is with our carabiner and i'm going to turn this guy on all i ask is push the subscribe button i'm trying to get to 100 000 subscribers here you guys or the like button at least minimum um let's see what we got 3.8 kilonewtons and it came out uh you can see the plastic was on the rock i tried to prevent that from rubbing directly the nose is scraped the back is scraped and you can get you know six ish when you uh take a whiffer and it just wasn't in the rock that good so i'm gonna try placing it again and i guess we're gonna get that break in a minute i super doubt that's coming out anytime soon problem is it's rubbing this point a lot but i guess this is a common placement in the gunks where you actually place it either in a horizontal crack and pull down or it just not in the same direction but this is ideal with a tricam versus a cam pulling around the corner like this we're almost at one kilo newton oh wow there's the dust the sling right where it touches the rock as you can see right there came around really does a number on this thing in case of the condition of this is uh chipped gnared scraped scratched used uh but still in pretty good shape yeah pretty good

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Length: 12min 50sec (770 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 04 2021