What does the marking on your carabiners means? Loading your carabiner on another axis than the major one, will reduce the strength of this one, the recommandation remains to use it on the major axis. As you can see on the tests we ran: - On the major axis, the carabiner endured a 20 kN charge and does not break off. - On the minor axis, the carabiner endured a 10 kN charge before snapping. - On the major axis with an open gate, it endured on 8 kN of charge before breaking. Realized on the Be On