How Strong are Arborist Bridges - New vs Old

We broke 2 new arborist bridges and 3 old ones from Nick Markley & Hunter Vincent. They all broke super good enough above 23kN which is much stronger than your back. We weren't sure how to pull them but we decided on doing them in a U shape with a barrel knot jammed into quicklinks. If you pulled to crazy forces on your harness, it would squeeze you silly until it was pulling in the U shape or basket position we did in this test.
1st test (new bridge) broke at the knot where it jammed the quicklink at 25.59kN
2nd test (new bridge) broke at the knot where it jammed the quicklink at 25.85kN
3rd test (old bridge) broke at the knot where it jammed the quicklink at 22.89kN
4th test (old bridge) broke at the knot where it jammed the quicklink at 23.27kN
5th test (old bridge) broke at the carabiner at the load cell!!! at 26.23kN

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00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Testing the new bridge
02:48 - Testing with a smaller quick link
03:47 - Testing the old bridge
04:25 - Breaking Nick’s bridge
05:46 - Super Good Enough