tool/chainsaw lanyard attachment options while in a bucket truck?

[Muggs]

Phenomenal contribution to do that test and put it up - thank you. I wonder if it is breaking the zip ties, essentially, one at a time? So adding more gains little. Perhaps going to beefier zip ties?

Separately TreeStuff has break away lanyards with two bucklesnaps that they say reliably break at 300#. I've wondered if removing one snap would get that down to a reasonable level for lift use on a top handle saw.

The first tests that I did, I just looped the zip ties onto the ladder rung and then clipped the lanyard to them. This definitely had them loaded unevenly and breaking one at a time. I took that test up to 8 zip ties that broke easily from the drop test. So then I switched to the Delta link so that it was flat stock against flat stock, and cinched the zip ties up tight. Of course the cinching wasn't exactly equal, but this should have had them being loaded far more evenly than before. I took that 2nd test up to 6 zip ties which all broke easily. Temperature might have been a factor, as plastic and nylon get brittle when frozen, but the package said they should be good down to -20 and it was only -12. Open to ideas.

 

[Phil]

I would really be interested in just seeing how lanyards respond to a dropped saw shock load in the their own right. I use these in the bucket:

https://a.co/d/0hpHEWw6

If I had a scale that would record peak load I'd bust a couple to see where they finally gave out. Would be nice if manufacturers posted some videos of their product testing to showcase how it actually works/deploys and the forces that are generated. I have to imagine those videos are floating around internally.

props to taking the time to test the zip ties. At least we know a general peak load for a dropped 16lb saw.

Instead of zip ties, how about small tied loops made from zing-it or some similar throwline. I'm thinking like a link of throwline between the saw and the lanyard.

 

[southsoundtree]

Test at higher temps, imo. The temp is too close to the reported use range.

 

[Merle Nelson]

A bunch of throwline breaks around 800#.

 

[Muggs]

Well I don't want to be constantly thinking about the temperature when I'm working and wondering if its appropriate for my breakaway connection. Now I'm leaning more towards the split key ring connection, like Drayer uses.

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