Lanyard adjuster on Treeflex

[Tom Dunlap]

The hip drings on TF are medium sized with a 'diamond' end to force the attachments to the apex. My favorite lanyard adjustment configuration is to tie the cord directly to the dring and use the dring as the slack tender. Occasionally the hitch would invert and pull through the dring.

I bought two rings for fifty cents each at the hardware store to use as slack tenders. In this pic I used a nylon ziptie to hold the ring. This works OK but not great. In time I can see that the tab on the ziptie would snag or pick.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

This configuration seems to work a bit better. The metal ring is captured by the scaffold hitches of the hitch. Since the ring is held by two tensioned cords it rotates less and keeps the ring fair to the lanyard rope. This seems like the way to go.

 

[Roger_Barnett]

That's slick, Tom. I still have my lanyard attached to a biner, making it removable. But I should attach it directly, as I only use my B'fly for pruning and don't need to switch out to a steel core flip line that resides on another saddle. However, sometimes I like to switch it to the bridge as it's 20 feet long, and all I need for some small trees. I could easily give up that feature in exchange for the clean direct setup.

 

[frans]

I also like the idea of tieing your lanyard to your saddle. However, I have many lanyards and it is much simpler for me to have a quickly removalble lanyard. I also walk around sometimes with my saddle on and removing the lanyard makes that easier

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I'm going to see about making a removable lanyard using an ISC Gator. That would still make it compact.

Since I use a DEDA lanyard I will probably make the right side which I use less removable. My lanyards are starting to take on a Swiss Army Knife look.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Hey Tom, when I used to use that style of lanyard (for many years), I found an easy fix that might work for you. It was; leave one end of the cord extra long so that you can tie your hitch and then capture the running line with a loop of the tail and squeeze that D-ring space down (just like you did with the extra ring. The extra tail of cord adds no real weight and eliminates the possibilty of the knot pulling through. Just another idea

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Clever solution Mark! I'll see how it works.