samsquatch
Participating member
- Location
- SE MN
I would be worried about plastic turning fragile after 1-2 months, especially in the winter.
Check out this new Saw Lanyard I just got.
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Tony
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Lancaster, PA
I welcome and appreciate honest criticism and advice, no worries there. It’d make for lame conversation if everyone did everything the same.
I’ve been using this for the past 14 years and I’m genuinely happy with it. Big screw gate let’s me swap saws without undoing a girth hitch.
The “why” is because it’s fast and secure. I can have my saw in hand and seconds, and can stow it in seconds. I’m not in the habit of just free fall dropping the saw til it hits the end of the lanyard, but I know that I can if it did happen, no matter if it’s a top handle or something bigger. I have no desire to own a breakaway after seeing one fail a while back, and although the climber was kinda rough dropping it, it was just a small top handle saw. I tend to baby my stuff, but I need to know that everything can take some hard use without failing. Broken saws suck, but far worse is if I drop something and kill or cripple someone, I couldn’t live with myself. My greatest fear in this work is hurting or killing someone because of some kind of failure on my part, so I decided I wanted a bomber saw lanyard and have zero desire to have a saw stowed right on my hip unless I’ll be in a situation where a swing might cause it to pendulum and hit something or myself.
I tried 3/8” Tenex until a gust of wind sent the slack dangerously close to a moving chain, so I went back to the stiff Dacron. Webbing with internal bungee, like the one posted in post #1 might be nice though. If I buy this lanyard, I’d likely girth hitch my old big biner on the end of it, instead of girthing it to the saw handle.
If you just let the saw hang free, which is what I am picking up, then I have no opinion for you. I don’t climb that way, nor will I allow those on my crews or at trainings I conduct to either. Too much risk for a bit of comfort. I would wonder about the long term ergonomic effects of loading your hips that way and I cannot see how the ball and chain it creates could be even close to efficient
If that is how you are running your show, I am not gunna sit here and say its unsafe and you should stop. Your climb, your decision on this matter. I think it’s just a sloppy habit, but that is just me And my subjective opinion. There are far worse things you could do whilst climbing.
Thanks for the reasonable, reply to my criticisms. I appreciate the discourse.
my .02
Tony
JeffGu
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Osceola, Nebraska
I don't do that, either. But, it has nothing to do with the reasons you stated. I know folks who do that, and I've seen their saws. They've seen mine.
They ask me how I keep my saws so nice.
I ask them how long it took them to get theirs out of the chipper, because that's where they look like they've been.
They ask me how I keep my saws so nice.
I ask them how long it took them to get theirs out of the chipper, because that's where they look like they've been.
Evan Sussman
Participating member
- Location
- Stanwood, WA
They are keyrings.
When I bought a few of the knockoffs that TS made I had supplemented the hardware with key rings and larger rings off of a bulk bag on Amazon.
I ended up giving a couple away as TCC prizes so I wanted to make sure they tested as expected. These rings were not the high end rings, just ok quality.
I use my enforcer
LOL:
) to test a handful of rings, and variations of quantity. I think I ended up with using 2 like the Drayer version. They start to fail around 180lbs in my testing. Going to 3 was too much.As I said, I've dropped a big saw onto it and it held just fine.
