saw lanyard

cashmoneytreeboy

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what happend to fresco aborist supllies? and thier lanyard that you could change between two saws? IT had a cool seatbealt type buckle. o yeah i hit 60ft with my bigshot all day everyday 14oz. bte @the farms ben staples rules!
 
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Fresco is alive and well. They're opening a store in Louisville,KY right now.

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Got to see it to believe it.


The idea behind those saw lanyards are nice but the buckles suck. I've lost several saws because of the buckles working their way loose. We ended up cutting the buckles off and replacing them with double locking biners. It clips directly to the wire D on an MS 200 or to the end handle for the bigger saws.
 
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Fresco is alive and well. They're opening a store in Louisville,KY right now.

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Got to see it to believe it.


The idea behind those saw lanyards are nice but the buckles suck. I've lost several saws because of the buckles working their way loose. We ended up cutting the buckles off and replacing them with double locking biners. It clips directly to the wire D on an MS 200 or to the end handle for the bigger saws.

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Ive been using the lanyards exclusively for around 5 years no and have never, not once had a buckle work loose. Id be willing to bet you didnt have them fully engaged. Plus there are 2 buckles as a redundancy. The only dislike i have with the buckles themselves(and Ive mentioned it Rob), is here in MN we get a fair amount of snow....
the female buckles are on the saw and the male end of the buckles are on the lanyard, if you use a saw with the lanyard unattached and set it down in the snow, the snow gets packed into the female end and you then have to pick it out before you can fit the male end in. If they were simply to reverse this and put the male end on the saw it would eliminate this problem.
 
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Ive been using the lanyards exclusively for around 5 years no and have never, not once had a buckle work loose. Id be willing to bet you didnt have them fully engaged. Plus there are 2 buckles as a redundancy.

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I don't know how much more fully engaged they can get. I would regularly have to check throughout a climb to make sure they were engaged. Usually having to push one buckle back in. I got tired on checking and actually had my brand new 200 disconnect from the lanyard, so I cut off the buckles.
 
yeah i was at the hardwear store today, and i thank fresco for the idea but, wit there "website" down i will make my own.. imagine my ground guys first day under my homemade seatbelt buckle stlye lanyard .>it says its good 4 30lbs . my 200t is old, i could use a nother. == todays safety meeting ////wear your hard hats! you never know when a chain saw might fall.
 
MS200 dropped from about 90 feet 2 weeks ago due to wear and tear on the lanyard. My fault for not inspecting it. This is no joke, cause if it landed on someone it could have killed them.
 
I used to carry my 200 on just a biner. One day a branch unclipped it, and it fell about 40 feet, bounced off a branch and decked. I thought it was a goner, but when I got down, not a scratch on it. Thankfully, no body was hurt (I was alone) but now I always use a lanyard...unless I forget.
 
When I started out my boss used an old non-locking ladder clip on a short tether, and he would clip it to the side handle. It worked quite well.

I forgot all about it until I saw that new petzl pdf brochure that had a 200T clipped on a large caritool biner. That's pretty slick for sure. I think I may have to try one of those out.
 
I have had a branch snag my non locking clip and send my 200t falling 50 feet. Since that day i havent climbed with out a triple lock biner attached to my saw.
 
I keep my saw on a break away lanyard that is snapped on to a gear loop on the saddle. The saw only gets clipped to the caritool to keep it close. If it fell out of the caritool the lanyard would catch it.
 
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