Scuba clips for lanyard management

Its the cable/electric cord size. My ropes and lanyards are 10.5 or 11 mm. Haven't tried it with 1/2" ropes and would guess it will be pretty snug and may even be a bit of two hand effort. Either way the toes or bulbous bit flexes well enough.
 
I bought a couple of those when you posted the link back when. Been enjoying it. Just took mine of to give the sidewinder a try, but you can bet I didn't throw it away.
 
And they do work fine for at least some 1/2" line. My half inch lanyard that I am using with the plastic cord holder is made out of safety blue. The rope doesn't go all the way to the back of the clip if that makes sense, but it doesn't need to either. Holds just fine.

Hope the scuba clips work for yall, but if not, those cord clips work fine, especially after you secure both top and bottom ends to your saddle. Mine was secured with bungee cord at the top at the waist, and accessory cords on the leg strap. Easy one hand stowing.
 
WaitakKauri said:
I'm really interested in this, just had four consequence days of climbing and lanyard management was driving me nuts - I need faster and easier. For reference, I'm a rec climber who normally climbs once a weekend (.... yeah yeah, I can hear the get tough calls now :) ).

I picked up a triple hose retainer just like the one Matt found - thanks Matt. I'm hoping it will clean up and speed up management of my 5m/~15' lanyard. Wish the tree shop was on the way home like the scuba shop is.

At the scuba shop we checked hose diameters and it would take 13mm fine. 9mm aluminum rod ran loose, but was captured.

Haven't climbed with this yet, but here's the setup. With saddle on standing, it's pretty easy to use.

Image and vid to share back. This is pretty new and soft 11mm Velocity.
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Nice! Thanks for sharing, man. Looks really smooth.
 
JTree said:
.... especially after you secure both top and bottom ends to your saddle. Mine was secured with bungee cord at the top at the waist, and accessory cords on the leg strap. Easy one hand stowing.
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@JTree, I think you're onto something here. In the vid, I had to hold the scuba clip to adjust. If I have a problem, I'll try fixing the bottom of the clip and see how it goes. Others will probably get to this before I do.
 
I got 4 of the ScubaClips in the mail, today. All plastic, except for the SS wiregate. Snagging the lanyard loops during a swing might break them, but they seem fairly tough.
Couple of pics with some different lanyards/rope...

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7/16" SuperStatic lanyard.. very easy in/out... in fact, perfect.
1/2" Petzl JANE lanyard.. still easy to get in/out, only slightly harder than the 7/16" lanyard.

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1/2" Yale XTC Fire 16-strand climbing rope was slightly harder than first two, but not much harder.
13mm Sterling static kernmantle, 100% nylon (rescue rope) that I use for ascent is a tad fatter than most 1/2" lines, and it was a little difficult to get it in/out of the clips. I don't think I'd want to use anything this size in them.

I also tried the 10mm Armor Prus lanyard, and it was very easy to get in/out and moved through the clip very easily. All of the others will stay where you clip it and won't move through the clips unless you intentionally move the rope.
 
JeffGu said:
I got 4 of the ScubaClips in the mail, today. All plastic, except for the SS wiregate. Snagging the lanyard loops during a swing might break them, but they seem fairly tough.
Couple of pics with some different lanyards/rope...

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7/16" SuperStatic lanyard.. very easy in/out... in fact, perfect.
1/2" Petzl JANE lanyard.. still easy to get in/out, only slightly harder than the 7/16" lanyard.

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1/2" Yale XTC Fire 16-strand climbing rope was slightly harder than first two, but not much harder.
13mm Sterling static kernmantle, 100% nylon (rescue rope) that I use for ascent is a tad fatter than most 1/2" lines, and it was a little difficult to get it in/out of the clips. I don't think I'd want to use anything this size in them.

I also tried the 10mm Armor Prus lanyard, and it was very easy to get in/out and moved through the clip very easily. All of the others will stay where you clip it and won't move through the clips unless you intentionally move the rope.
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Good first impressions. Wonder how they'll hold up?
 
LeviRockett said:
Wonder how they'll hold up?
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Yeah, I'm wondering, too... I'll put them to use right away and report back if they break...
They clearly won't hold a lot of weight, with the swivel parts all being plastic, but it is pretty good plastic. I don't think weight will be the issue, though, I think snagging the loops on branches is probably going to be an issue. We'll see. I do like the way the rope goes in and out much easier than the colored plastic gecko-toe style ones from TreeStuff.
 
Long lanyard on left side...

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Short lanyard on right side...

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It was raining today, but got out and tried this out... I was wrong about the ScubaClips breaking when loops get snagged... it just pulls the rope out and doesn't hurt them a bit.
These look real promising. Will pick up one of the other devices, the Gecko Toes thing, and try one of those on another saddle.
 
mikbro81 said:
...about as good as the caritool...
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Yeah, seems to be the same type of plastic... I hang a saw from a large caritool on the Master Deluxe saddle, and it seems to hold the tophandle saws just fine, and today I hung the 261 (20") saw on it just to see how much the suspenders helped. They helped a LOT and the caritool didn't seem to mind the additional weight, either. I was pleasantly surprised. It's stronger than I thought.
 
mikbro81 said:
I only have a small caritool...
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Yeah, not sure I'd trust the small one for anything bigger than a tophandle saw. Haven't tried it, because I have the large one on the right side, and it's lots bigger/beefier. Also, it's big enough to just clip the saw handle into it.
 
Ok, so I've had a climb finally with my scuba clip. Mostly good stuff.

I was in a large sprawling pothutukawa in sand dunes so I was interested in keeping my lanyard up from the black metallic sand, away from the rough -and what I call- catchy bark while I was limb walking and minding lots of deadwood. I didn't want to accidentally down deadwood as I was near a track which had the odd walker and there was a small risk it could have rolled down onto the track.

So with some context to the climb, the clip worked really well. Putting rope in or taking it out worked really well. Simple and the clips held well. Lanyard stayed up, stayed clean and didn't catch anywhere. Much quicker than daisy chaining and I could adjust things as I needed. My saddle has an attachment point between two gear carabiners that I had loaded up. It was easy to reach in and under a stack of biners, prusiks and webbing and use the clip. All good.

The minus was that I couldn't tend with the clip. When I tried this prior (in the vid), it worked fine. So long as I held the clip firm, my rope would tend through the clip. In the tree, no such luck. By the time I was going to have another try, my son had arrived and wanted a line set for him to climb. I didn't say no to that :)
 
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