spray painting slings?

I think it is a bad idea.

Why not just get bright colored slings?

Why would you paint them?


any slings or ropes that have faded from sun have always been retired from my kit.
 
At our office, spray painted slings are the ones that are retired and only used to holding gear together and what not.

I'd bet money that there's no strength loss from a spray painted sling.

love
nick
 
That bright florescent color also comes into mind when some off the groundies have put their saw into the climbing line or rigging line. It has happened a couple off times and after using a real high visible line the color will wear and dissapear and the groundies again put their saw in the line....so it's only temporary.

Slings have the nasty habbit to dissapear on the job, thats probably why he wants them to be bright as hell.

I count them when loading my gear in and keep all the climbing and rigging gear on the same spot. Saves costs and will keep you from driving up and down to the customer.

Spraypainting will harden up the exterior fibers and will make the sling weaker as original. Bad idea i.m.o.

climb safe
wouter
 
nailed it treestyler. we loose slings alot. even though they are inexpensive like $30-$50 but loose about 4 of them and it gets costly. it's also nice to have high viz slings when your in the tree looking for where your block is hanging.

im just a "block"-head today for these dumb questions i guess.
 
If you lose slings you need to keep the work area more organized. Losing gear is waste and waste is stupid.

Nothing pisses me off more than finding a biner or something just laying on the ground all by itself. That's like throwing away $20. No biners get put down without being clipped to something else, all gears stays in one or two... maybe three piles. Any gear not in one of those piles makes me get mean.

It's too easy to keep up with stuff, just throwing it down in the name of saving 30 seconds is STUPID.
 
Blinky,

Where did you and I learn the same thing? Which school did we attend?

New hires learned to keep track of their PPE and put rakes back in place many days before they are even going to touch valuable gear. If they don't pass the apprentice test of having their PPE everyday and putting rakes and pole tools away they don't get their card punched to advance to working with the cool tools.
 
I agree. As much as possible, one staging area for gear, ideally the truck.

Nothing just gets put down. Everything should get clipped to something.

Too easy to lose things that are loose. Even a saw chain and bar can slip out between the P/U bed and tailgate.

What about just washing the slings (try to keep them clean in the first place, within reason) or if faded, replace them. The less money that goes to replacing random gear, the more money for replacing worn/ UV damaged gear.
 
I suggest that you give them concrete rules that they can adhere to. Saying things like, "Be careful, don't break stuff, don't lose things" I think doesn't register. It's too vague. You could look at a situation and the two of you could have an argument on whether or not they are actually being careful.

Saying things like, "never set a sling on the ground, cover glass doors before you stumpgrind near them, or don't fill up saws in front of the truck" are concrete statements that you can evaluate. There is no middle ground to these types of rules and anyone can tell if they are following them or not.

love
nick
 
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