Double lanyard anyone?

cambmx

cambmx

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I got a new lanyard setup, and threw it on my harness today, but left my old one on. I had a pretty technical removal, lots of limbwalks and climbing flat lined, etc. I used both as alternating lanyards, and it made everything super fast and safe, but I kept having issues keeping everything neat. Does anybody run 2 lanyards on techy removals or prunes and if so, how do you keep two systems from getting in the way of everything else?
 
If you're climbing on a Sequoia or Treemotion you have three possible points of lanyard attachment which allows decent management of multiple lanyards while still on your main climbing line.

1. If you have a large enough bridge ring (as is stock on the TM) you can attach a lanyard there in addition to your main climbing line. If you have a HC pulley on your main system and your lanyard then you'll only have two carabiners clipped into the ring. Also TL Hamel has posted video with further tricks to minimize attachment points to the ring with a lanyard added in.

2. The rings at the bridge attachment point on the TM (green) and Sequoia (gold) are excellent lanyard anchor points

3. And the side D's of course

I installed the 40mm DMM green ring on my Sequoia bridge, gives me plenty of room for my main system DRT or SRT (wrench) and a lanyard.
-AJ
 
If I use two separate lanyards or ropes I color code them so that I can keep track of them. Lanyards tend to follow the 'Red is Right' color scheme.

At times i feel like I'm making a macrame design with all of the ropes.

Being deliberate at every rope clip helps a lot too. Don't unclip the previous setup without loading the current one. I make a quick inspection from the snap/biner all the way back to where the other end attaches to my harness. Over the years I've had a few times where that final inspection showed that something was wrong. I would never have fallen but I might have taken a swing.
 
Is the sidewinder available for purchase? Has there already been a thread about it that I missed?
I remembered reading something from I think nick bonner about it. I'd be interested to see more.
Thanks
Jon
 
that sidewinder looks awesome! and yeah, I have a treemotion, I was using one system on the hip and one on the bridge rings, and then climbing line to the bridge. Is that sidewinder just a home made box with a mainspring? that would be a fun project if we get rained out tomorrow!
 
I used two lanyards (plus my main line in a neighboring tree) last week on this cat rescue. The cat was up 3 days in the rain, a busy street was 50' below, and there were power lines near and thru the tree. The branches were covered in wet moss, and there were no good TIPs overhead. I got as far as I could, and still had to use a 6' ketch pole.

All three ropes are very different colors, as well as the snaps. I use stuff sacks for the lanyards, and actually practice with them all, cuz it can get pretty confusing.





 
Regular lanyard with HC pulley

and a long CELanyard with a cambium saver that fits into a thowline bag.

Works for me.

CELanyardModified.jpg
 
Tried the double ended lanyard, ran into more problems than it solved, so know I just run two lanyards all the time. Two lanyards is standard up here. Im not quite sure how you would climb most trees safely without it, and by safe I dont mean what you think is safe, I mean the safe work practices we are supposed to employ, not what you feel comfortable doing. Theres a big difference obviously if the OP has been climbing for a while with only one lanyard.
I did that for a few years, in fact when I started, all we were given to climb was and old canvas Asplundh belt, a 2n1, and a LINEMANS POLESTRAP(Im sure some of the oldtimers know exaclty what I mean), so often we had to climb the tree freehand until we could get to a stuitable place to get out polestrap around. One time climbing a nasty old HUGE cotonweed(7-8' DBH) I got my double strap(two straps clipped to one another, real awesome and safe!!!!NOT), caught on a lil stubbie while attempting to get it arounf the girth of the tree, and it was not releasing for nothing.
I was about 30-40 ft up the tree, unsecured of course, and no more gear on the ground to climb up to me(this was 20 yrs ago, we had never even heard of a tree rescue at this point), my older brother freaked and ran a trim truck, literally had to take a run at it, and rammed the truck through a rather deep ditch, close enough to the tree that he was able to get in the bucket and with a four pole pruner, unhook the caught strap. So much fun sitting there holding on to the side of a giant tree for an good hour while we tried to solve the problem. Spurs were sunk right to the iron(punky old softwood bark).
The truck had to be pulled out with a tow truck...lol.
Asplundh footed the bill.
Soon after learned to use my rope for a lanyard with an old steel beaner for a connector, one side just tied into D ring.
It still wasnt at least ten years till I saw my first steel core, I hated them polestraps and still do.
 
Lol... linemans polestrap...I must be an old timer then. 32, having climber and trimmed my first tree at the wee age of 7. Dang I feel old now! Thanks for that. Started with two fliplines way back then. Prusick type; crappy to adjust; now just one with hitch climber/ eye and eye with climbing line . Yadda yadda yadda...you know the deal.
 
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