Terminology for climbing equipment

[frans]

Some call it a 'lanyard' some call it a 'safety', some call it an 'adjuster' and some, to be really confusing & elitist, call it a DEDA or some such, but I call it a 'flip line'.

A lanyard can mean any short piece of rope or webbing like to hold your chain saw while aloft.
A safety can mean your climbing line.
An 'adjuster' can mean just about any thing at all.
A DEDA can mean nothing but 'gobblegook' to a novice.

What do you all call your flip line?

Same with climbing spikes:
Spurs
Hooks
Climbers

Frans

 

[Alves]

I call my flipline a safety lanyard, my chainsaw lanyard a chainsaw lanyard, and my spikes spikes, occasionally ill call them spurs

 

[treebear]

I use adjustable lanyard or just lanyard. I´ve heard people call it strop or safety strop.
Svein

 

[Reg]

I call it a flipline if its steel core ie flipping motion used while climbing up a spar.

Spikes are spikes, sometimes gaffs.

I'd never heard of a spar before joining this forum. In the UK its a trunk or stem, where does the term spar come from?

 

[Smallwood]

The mast of ship is generally called a spar although both the boom and the mast may be called a spar. Either the mast was named a spar because it was made from a tree trunk or stem or the tree trunk or stem became known as a spar because of the nautical use. Not sure which one came first but the origin was probably English or Northern European.
Phil

 

[RogerM]

I was taught "buckstrap" Been told it was a "sissystrap" I
call it my safety lanyard now. Had some really great "mentors" in the past.

 

[rentachimp]

Climbing spurs I call spikes

Wirecore i call Flipline. If it's soft I call it an adjustable strop.

Spar = Trunk or - if there're multiple ones - stems.

 

[NickfromWI]

Flipline and spikes

love
nick

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Lanyard/flipine and spikes/hooks. Either word is used with equal frequency.

DEDA is a type of lanyard...but you know that
Double Ended Double Adjusting

 

[guymayor]

I used to call it a "scare strap"--I had some weird mentors too. Now it's just a lanyard, though i know that is not very specific.

Spikes are spikes, unless they are worn by an unskilled climber pruning a tree, in which case they are known as "sissy tree stabber thingies"

 

[SCOTTYNC]

Laynard and magic shoes

 

[TLHamel]

I'll flip-flop the names depending upon my mood. I've never heard of DEDA until now.

 

[inztrees]

I though spikes were magic shoes
I call it a laynard or bock strap
spikes or hooks
rope rope or line
I know a guy that calles a throw ball a jonny ball

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

You say, "potato" I say, "pototto."

 

[Colin]

I call it "my $hit."

 

[Bodean]

Flipline and Spurs.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Here's a picture of the DEDA system like I have it configured...

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The built-in adjuster...

 

[Stumper]

Lanyard and gaffs.

 

[Colin]

[ QUOTE ]
I call it my $hit.

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How eloquent. I suppose you call your rope ... vine then Tarzan?

Why even bother posting such drivel? Preposterous, posted out of pure obsession to remain the village genius. This isnt TH and you are amongst proper people, I call these valuable and life saving, plus work positioning items;

Lanyard, pole strap and flip line.

Spikes and spurs.

Please do display your professionalism in future, $hit belongs in the toilet. Is that perhaps where you store yours?

3 Hail Marys for you.