It’s difficult for many people to select carabiner. This guide will help you to make your decision when you buying carabiner. carabiner are widely used by sports lovers, different material and design will be different function, you must make sure which kind of carabiner you need?
Different material carabiner advantages and disadvantage:
- Aluminum carabiner advantage: lightweight, good quality, much weight-bearing.
- Steel carabiner: cheap, low weight-bearing.
The above advantages and disadvantages determine they will use in different ways. Steel carabiner can be used for hammock hanger, tree straps hanger. Aluminum carabiner can be used for rappelling, climbing.
Different Shape:
- Asymmetric D Shape: it will be not so monotonous in design, top lines is wider than bottom lines, which makes smaller room in it. The gate length is longer than others.
- Symmetrical D shape: this design makes the rope or other in side more easily to shift around, this design can be suitable for climbing.
- Oval shape. It is a traditional design. There are uniform top and bottom lines to make the weight-loading difficult to shift quickly. Smaller gate opening and heavier than other shapes
Carabiner gate:
1) wire gate
2) Bent gate
3) Straight gate