As there was a current thread about safety chains, I remembered a question I had been meaning to ask for quite a while.
Is it wrong to 'choke' a safety chain around a bar? As in when having a chain thats attatched to a fixture, then take the end with the clip over the bar and click back onto the safety cable.
I've always understood that by doing this, it allowed a greater drop,thus exerting a greater strain on the cable.
As such I've always believed that its safer, and better practice to try and clip onto the wire loop at the far end of the cable from the clip, or if possible clip it onto a fixture point, as shown in gafftaper's diagram above.
I'd be interested on what everyone else thinks.
Is it wrong to 'choke' a safety chain around a bar? As in when having a chain thats attatched to a fixture, then take the end with the clip over the bar and click back onto the safety cable.
I've always understood that by doing this, it allowed a greater drop,thus exerting a greater strain on the cable.
As such I've always believed that its safer, and better practice to try and clip onto the wire loop at the far end of the cable from the clip, or if possible clip it onto a fixture point, as shown in gafftaper's diagram above.
I'd be interested on what everyone else thinks.