Who hangs their chainsaw from a caritool?

I don't think I would ever use a Caritool on my harness. I just don't trust plastic. I personally use Petzl Spirit carabiners. I like their shape and the fact that the nose of the carabiner doesn't have any notch to snag anything.

I too have had some scary instances of looking down and realizing my positioning lanyard was clipped to the gate of my saw biner instead of my d-ring. Kind of scary to realize that I was one shift of my weight away from disaster. These days I try to do the visual, audio, manual inspection like Tom says.
 
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Yup, the term 'scare strap' is old school.

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That got edited out of my lexicon when I realized that I never wanted to put my life on something with 'scare' in its name
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I used to use caritools but one day after climbing all day in the sun I accidentally clipped my lanyard to the caritool instead of the D ring. Needless to say it broke and I went for a nice swing. Ever since I have been reluctant to put one back on my saddle.

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no accident, same sentiment.
 
Paddle biner here... Kong with the name scratched off!
I do not use a lanyard to attach a saw to myself. Scares me.
I have only dropped one saw in 12 years.
Old husky 335. I may have thrown it! :)
 
spose you already know this, but the ring on the back of the saw is designed to be pulled out under force.

just saying cos everyone makes mistakes and ive heard of climbers dropping saws on groundsman's heads.

plus one on the caritool (4- 2 small 2 large) i also hang the saw off the handle for big swings, it makes the bar poke out the back and out of the way of ropes.
 
This is probably a lot to ask but is there a chance you could post a picture of how you attach your saw from the handle to your harness as I am very interested in finding another way to keep it from swinging around as im doing a big prune.I have seen a lot of guys overseas in videos attach it this way but no up close pictures...Thanks
 
i use a bungee lanyard that i cut the steel ring off the end and replaced it with a large split ring. i clip a key chain biner from that to the red ring on back of my TM, the other end i clip to a large caritool on my right side. i figure that if something really grabs my saw the split ring will straighten out or the key chain biner will fail. im comfortable with that. i always check double check when clipping in my lanyard because accidentally getting the caritool is a scary thought. but i wouldnt go without the saw lanyarded to me in some way.
 
I've only owned one and I have no idea if it was a large or not... I wouldn't have wanted it any bigger though. First the gate sprung, then it warped to the side. That was a few years ago when they came out... and I hardly ever carry a big saw on my harness.
Since then I've decided that no unrated connectors would be on my harness so now I use a paddle biner lashed to the side of my BFII. Works great, no complaints at all.
 
Same. Never allow an unrated biner or attachment on my harness. I always use a lanyard because I don't want to drop a saw on a groundies head...and I hope that flimsy attachment at the back of the top handle really would break if it needed to. I think that setup covers most contingencies. But I might invest in a breakaway lanyard too.
 
I've been using about a 10" jumbo cheap aluminum biner from a hardwear store. Definately unrated and cheap, it was advertised for storing hose or electrical cords. It's taken the abuse and it's been fairly easy to work with but that Komet would make me a quicker draw McGraw for sure.
 
I've been using a dog leash with a ring sewed about 6" past the looped handle, girth hitched to my ring and I clip the end to the accessory loop on my saddle. I can quickly lower it below my feet when bracing for a shake and when climbing around I snap the ring into the little spring clip thing on the side of my saddle so that it hangs by my hip. Never had it come loose or cause any problems yet, such as mistaking it for a d ring or lanyard. If I'm going for a big swing I do like mentioned above but I tie a small loop on the top handle and clip it to the saddle so the bar points behind me rather than hanging down.
 
I do the same bruh run a small saw strap off the saw's ring for easyer hook up leap of faith or landing on the ground I hook the handle to a paddle carabiner..Even do it with bigger saws just move the paddle carabiner to my back on the left side when landing on the ground.it sure keeps the chain out of the dirt!
 
I hope folks are not depending on that stainless loop at the back of the top handle breaking. Let me just say this I was breaking in the newest of my 200T's a little while back and was taking a fairly good size spar piece, in a hurry and not paying attention my back cut was a little high and the saw went with the piece. Luckily the bar and chain came free, but that ring didn't even flinch. Bent bar. Speed and haste kills. Also saw one bent on a old 192 I got and tried to straighten it out, not so easy that is a tough ring. By the way I was using my old style of dogleash girthed to the red ring on TM and a rated Rock Exotica pirate. Got a totally different setup now. Pic attached.
 

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I don't know where you guys are getting where they are not rated from. It says .05kn on the biner. As well if you actually go to the website they have the spec's right there. 5kg for the small, 15kg for the large; holding capacities. It's not much, but their tool holders... Where they fit on my belt is right out of the way of where my D ring is, and they fit great as they are built as an up sale item for the sequoia, although they do fit webbing on other saddles.

http://www.petzl.com/en/pro/verticality/harnesses/harnesses-accessories/caritool

I've snapped one, and thats cause I was hot dogging a spar removal like a fool and didn't pass down my 200, and clipped the 346 to the same biner and took a big step down. My break away landyards caught the saws though as well as my ego. I was climbing all over a sugar spar the other week with a 576, and no problems what so ever (minus the 42 degree heat). Im reluctant to buy the big ones though, cause they're just too damn big, I've had problems with the odd small branches that get trapped in the biner, couldn't imagine the frustration with a large one though. Casey has a video with a solution for that problem though.
 
I hope you are not meaning me, Treeness as I have two large and two small caritools on my TM. I like them and hang a lot of stuff from them, including my chainsaw ( not primary attachment though ). They do get caught up occasionally though when moving through thick canopies.Small price to pay.
 
When I first got in to tree care was showed to do the 3 step pruning cut by spacing 1-2 apart was cutting a 12" branch saw got hung up went to the ground.I don't care what size saw it is surely don't want it hooked to my saddle.Something good bad I'm not hanging on to the saw to see how fast the ground can say hello...Not even if it says breakaway get a good load put on your lifeline could rip your tips crotch be reading about you in the paper.



If you prune with the first two cuts.Start lining them up! [/list]
 
Yo stroke this wasn't no pruning cut I was doing dude, I was removing some very heavy wood in the tree pictured here. Some long azzed limbs like in the pic here. Standard 45 degree face cuts mainly and a level backcut towards the apex. 14"-16" four foot section of very heavy mohogany ( lower in this very tree ) took the saw because of carelessness. Went high on the back cut as opposed to level and ran through the face because I was rushing. Do these cuts all the time and know them well, I just had a lapse. Turned into a saw catcher. Lucky for me the bar and chain gave.
 

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