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I got a glide lite in a deal off Craigslist and the buckles were on the inside. They hung up on each other and stepping in was no easier. I flipped em outwards onto my ring ligered cougar and definitely felt different but not uncomfortable. My guess would be TM would feel weird if flipped.
 
TCtreeswinger said:
I got a glide lite in a deal off Craigslist and the buckles were on the inside. They hung up on each other and stepping in was no easier. I flipped em outwards onto my ring ligered cougar and definitely felt different but not uncomfortable. My guess would be TM would feel weird if flipped.
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Good to know, I don't like how the leg loops rub against each other on the TM, so if the buckles were in a position where they made that worse I would be very unpleased. Maybe they could be closer to the front. I don't know. Yeah and as you say "stepping in was no easier", but did you have an adjustable bridge?
 
If you look on TS the picture shows them on the inside and all the comments complain about it. I did not have an adjustable bridge. That could definitely make a difference in getting in
 
TCtreeswinger said:
If you look on TS the picture shows them on the inside and all the comments complain about it. I did not have an adjustable bridge. That could definitely make a difference in getting in
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That could be why almost all harnesses have them on the "wrong" side. It could come down to the fact that they interfere with comfort and mobility. Thanks for your feedback!
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
SRT vs DdRT and pruning vs. removal and size of tree decides what comes with. will i be double crotchin' and want a DdRT set up on me, or just a fig. 8 to control swings back from somewhere in the crown?
is this removal going to be a sappy POS causing me to use a fig 8 on the spar or encourage a hitch cord change on the lanyard?
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If doing a sappy removal...when you use a F8 is that your primary means of friction Hitch? If so how do you work that up and down the tree?
 
Kris Fugate said:
Question about first aid kits: what's in them and how often do you guys practice having to perform first aid on yourself?
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I had the blood stopper in it for a while, but have since swapped it out for regular old bandaids and stuff. I find that I need to stop little bleeds way more often than the need for a blood stopper. I have that in the first aid kit on the ground, I believe it is more important to try to get to the ground and let others help than try to wrestle and contort myself to try and access the pouch at the small of my back while I am heavily bleeding, but I have never been in that predicament!

Also, I have alcohol swabs in my pouch that not only come in handy with cuts, but with cleaning carabiners and tools aloft. Don't need it for that regularly, but in a pinch...or should I say in the pitch. ;)
 
Yeah, the eye drops idea was the best one of the bunch. Oh, and the alcohol swabs... could use them like nicotine gum if you're going to be up in the tree for awhile.
 
I posted this back in March, wanted to update on how it's going. Basically the quick release belt buckle on my TM was driving me crazy, to tighten or loosen it has to be unclipped. Once it was the right tightness it was too much effort to re-engage the buckle. While I was climbing the buckle would gradually loosen. My solution was to rip out the stitches holding the buckle on and replace with a simple rated buckle that can be easily adjusted whenever I want in the tree. I preserved the original belt webbing and the sewing I did is probably stronger than the original fairly minimal bar tacks, I dispersed the lock stitching over a larger area of webbing and followed best practices for hand-sewn life support webbing. I have no butt so I no longer have the problem of the harness falling off me while I'm climbing or on the ground.

After 3 months of hard climbing it remains bomber. It's easier to put the harness on too because I can let the webbing out quite a bit with the buckle still engaged, I hold the harness by the waist belt "loop"makes it easier to step through into the leg straps.

These are photos from when I did the mod in March, I double the tail of the waist belt back through the buckle, it does not slip while I'm climbing:

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Edit: Just for reference the stock TM COBRA-S quick release buckle is rated 18kn at the attachment points, the actual quick release clasp "join" is rated 9kn. If your stock TM buckle fails you aren't going anywhere but you're sitting more in a sling and if you invert you'd be hanging in your leg straps. At any rate sewing to 9kn is easily done with a little research on best practices and good quality sewing technique, slap dash doesn't cut it.
-AJ
 
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