Steel Core Lanyard Petition

[KevinS]

Wire core lanyards
These climbing lanyards are spliced or crimped often under a shrink wrap finish. The shrink wrap is dark and makes inspecting the interior cable impossible. More than 1 lanyard fail has led to climbers falling from various heights. This is a gap in climbing safety inspections.


Climbing Lanyard Petition

This petition is to urge lanyard manufacturers to replace the dark solid rubber seals with a clear, transparent rubber seal that allows for visual inspection.

Please vote above, like or comment and leave your name to accumulate support of this action.

 

[KevinS]

Kevin Schieck

 

[JTree]

John Riley

 

[SRTsteve860]

Steven Kondej

 

[kstreehuggerco]

Kenn Shawcroft

 

[SRTsteve860]

I dont see why manufacturers would have a problem with this. Is black shrink wrap much/if at all, cheaper than clear? Once they run out of stock of one they should be able to jump right into running clear

-Steven

 

[Merle Nelson]

Merle Nelson

 

[KevinS]

I dont see why manufacturers would have a problem with this. Is black shrink wrap much/if at all, cheaper than clear? Once they run out of stock of one they should be able to jump right into running clear

-Steven

Not sure I'm starting with this then talking to distributers then manufacturers if you start at one end finish at the other it should not be a big problem

 

[Flex Abednego]

nic mccarty

 

[TreeVB]

100% for clear shrink wrap. It would make me feel more comfortable, especially since we have to use steel core lanyards here in Hawaii when pruning coconut trees.

Kevin Van Brunt

 

[CutHighnLetFly]

Andre Sprague

 

[Stihlmadd]

Ben Williams

 

[Mark13y]

Nick Markley

 

[monkeylove]

Frank Haverkamp

 

[Steve Connally]

Stephen G. Connally

 

[Steve Baker]

Steve Baker

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Richard Mumford

 

[JontreeHI]

Jon Matych

 

[flyingsquirrel25]

Agree that every piece of equipment should be inspectable, especially a known failure point such as this. In addition I would like to see manufacturer recomendations or ANSI standard (a shall not a should) as to length of service for any given piece. It could be as simple as 5 years for software and 10 year for hardware from the inservice date. Not that many of the lower grade tree slobs would listen, but those trying to be legit would/could have better guildance.
But in the mean time when in dought throw it out ! and Inspect inspect inspect!

 

[wyoclimber]

Aaron Danforth