Good video. This is one of those things that I think I've always known, but was never quite sure how serious and likely a risk it was. But DMM have very clearly shown us that, yes, keeping your rope and gear end krabs very separate is clearly the right thing to do!

although I know that this can happen, I would liked to have seen how the crab they used was damaged to create the damage on the rope

you get a glimpse of it and it looks like it's significantly more burred than any of my biners in fact I'd probably have retired it by now even if it was used only on the gear end That said I do try and keep my biners seperate, but let's face it, with other people using your rack and mistakes made etc, it's impossible to keep them 100% seperate. Some of my biners are floating and get used for multiple uses (screw gates fall in to this category for me as well as some snap gates). I'll think I'll continue doing this TBH and just visually inspect the biners from time to time and retire them a bit sooner from this use if they start burring than the ones I know are going to be gear only.

I agree. it is a major concern and I too find it hard sometimes to keep track of which crab has been used for what end. Maybe i'll become more aware of it because of this vid and I hope others do too.