chainsaw attachment

[klimbinfool]

How do you fellas attach your chainsaw to your belt? Personally , I have a 31/2" bull ring on everysaw I own and clip into a brass clip on my right side with a lanyard. But I have herd of lot of different ways. This seems to work best for me.keeping my saw tucked in close while I move through the tree.

Thanks
Greg

 

[NickfromWI]

Dmm Wirelock carabiner on the right side of my Master II saddle (there's a little slot there that I am sure was designed just for this purpose).

Climbing saw get's a buckingham bungee tear-away lanyard. The one I use has a large webbing eye on one end with a maybe a 3" ring right next to the eye. On the other end of a lanyard there is a small webbing eye.

Big eye get's girth hitched to a handle, ring, or other handy spot on the saw. Little eye get's clipped to the small brass snap on the saddle. Saw hangs on the carabiner by means of the big ring on the lanyard. It can be hung and removed one handed.

love
nick

 

[klimbinfool]

ever take the sping out of the brass clip so it just becomes a hook and hang your saw on it with a lanyardas a back up? I know some people who do that. Or what about those who drag thier saw through the woods with a six foot lanyard. I'm not sure how they move about . Seems like a pain in the ass to me .But each to thier own.

Greg

 

[Mangoes]

Grew to not like girth hitching webbing to that little ring on 020s to stiff to pull off every day when your gear is yours but the saw is the company's. I spliced a lanyard out of 1/2" 3 strand with eyes barely big enough to slide an Am'd Ball Lock through(I use retired biners for this use). I clip 1 biner to the saw (BTW an Am'd Ball Lock will clip into the rear handle of an 046 and an 066) and the second biner dead center of the back of my harness. When I move around I like the saw clipped up nice and close on my right side through a wide biner slipped through the harness webbing. The lanyard clipped dead center allows me to reach same distance left or right with a simple pass behind the back of the saw.

 

[Teti]

I do almost the same thing.I use the long Petzl quick draw w/ a tri-act on all my saws and a screwgate biner on my harness. That way if I do pull up a saw w/ a ring I can unscrew it and clip away.It's nice to know my saw wont fall off while I'm moving through the tree. (It did happen once...once)

 

[Treelimbjim]

Every climbing saw has its own lanyard. Easier to identify my saw and the company's.

Echo CS-300: I put a 2 1/2" loop ring, but with a small flat portion so that the loop would flop over and hinge. Lanyard girth hitched to it helps it flop over and catch a snap on the right side of B'fly II. Other end of the lanyard gets binered on the right hip tool loop.

I wouldn't recommend snapping a biner on the Echo handle. I vaguely remember an experience with their shock-mount mechanism and all that trigger interlock stuff up in the handle.

Stihl 019T[late]: Pre-sewn lanyard, like the one Nick refers to, but not tear-away. Girthed to the tab (takes some time and patience) [daily? yikes!].

My new Stihl has a D-ring hinging vertically. Hoping this thread will inspire some advancement in this area.

But then, most of the time I climb without a chainsaw.