Add quick buckle to TM Essential

[ATH]

Training a new employee...picked up a Tree Motion Essential for $300 at the tree care conference/tradeshow (new, but not the new model - Essential X... vendor cleaning out inventory of old model so sold it cheap).

Anyhow, the adjustable waste belt is a little obnoxious to get the saddle on and off. Not a deal breaker at $300, but not ideal either.

Anyhow, has anyone upgraded by adding a quick release? I'd probably use a Cobra as they use on the other TM's but open to suggestions.

My thought would be have the fixed end of a quick release on a bite of webbing that has both ends feeding back through the current adjuster. Then sew those ends together so it cannot come out. Would also need to cut the stitching making a look at the end, but that does not concern me...it's just to keep the webbing from coming out of the adjuster and could easily be redone.

Thoughts?

 

[96coal449]

If your trainee was to be injured, are you concerned with alterations of a certified saddle?

 

[ATH]

If your trainee was to be injured, are you concerned with alterations of a certified saddle?

Yes and no.
Obviously, yes.
But using a certified buckle doesn't concern me. The real question is how to attach that without actually altering the saddle.

 

[96coal449]

What I meant is, does an alteration void the cert of the entire saddle?
Which, in turn, could cause a liability issue?

I like the CMC on my MB OG. Easy to use "buckle" and adjuster. Adjustment always stays put till I want to adjust it intentionally.

 

[pcpTR33]

Honestly do what everyone did with the original treemotion light, shove a xsre biner where the webbing goes into the “buckle” easy on and off adjustment just pull the xsre to loosen