lanyard and electrical tape

[Kevin]

It serves a dual purpose, keeps the end secure and helps store the excess.

 

[treesandsurf]

you don't ever get anything caught up in that loop, seems like it would snag all sorts of stuff when moving about...?

jp

 

[SRTTech]

offtopic, but hey TreesNsurf, how bad is that earthquake damage over there??

are you keeping busy cleaning up trees?

 

[Kevin]

The only occasion I've experienced trouble with it is when walking on the ground.

 

[Mangoes]

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It serves a dual purpose, keeps the end secure and helps store the excess.

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Myself, I don't understand why climbers don't SECURELY attach the tail of their lanyard to the harness. I see alot of cams with potential to let the tail pop out, and those that have a stopper knot, well, what if the cam fails? As well I have an 11 foot lanyard, with the tail securely backed up on the harness a few inches back of the side D, for the same capacity lanyard not backed up/stored you'd have a tremendous amount of tail dragging about on the ground.

 

[Lumberjack]

Mangoes, I dont attach my tail, my lanyard is generally around 15' long.

I dont use a cam, I use a friction hitch, and I have a stopper knot. If my lanyard gets in the way it fits nicely in the ditty bag that hangs right behind the D, on the ground I either stuff it in there or take it off.

 

[treesandsurf]

SRTtech, it wasn't too bad here. We definitely felt it at my place, but it felt like tremors, we were about 200miles from the epicenter. The only thing was that the power was out all day, so we went and surfed sunset with only 6 guys out!!

I think most of the damage happened on the big island which was closer to the epicenter. Funny growing up in california and as soon as I come out to hawaii I've already felt two earthquakes, one a few months ago.

jp