2019 zig zag ?

[Treetom15]

14 hours ago, TIMON said:

 

Love the Mk3. ZigZag my only concern with it has always been the black swivel, the small thin shaft that connects the captive ball inside the housing to the ring where the bridge karibiner goes. A failure on that part of the device would be catastrophic. I check mine (and the other ones I inspect) VERY carefully with a spot light and magnifying glass. Cracks in the top links aren’t necessarily going to dump you out of the tree but a failure on the swivel part certainly would.

The same component on the newer version looks beefier. Maybe the peace of mind would be worth the extra £££ and getting used to something a bit bulkier.

Re the swivel breaking, there was a video on here of a chap (Patrick Brandt) doing a stress test on a mk3 ZZ, with his Zag wrench tether. He tested the ZZ to destruction in a Ddrt setup and the failure was on the metal housing AROUND the swivel, it’s an interesting watch if you’ve got half an hour free ?

[Mark Bolam]

I saw that Tom.

It was both surprising and comforting.

[Treetom15]

5 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

I saw that Tom.

It was both surprising and comforting.

Makes you much more confident in that tiny piece of metal holding you way up in the air ?

[kcstevens]

That is grotesque [emoji23]

[kcstevens]

I use a MK3 with a twin rounds tether . If I was going to splurge money there is too many srt devices that look far more worth the money than that hunk of metal and chicane

[kcstevens]

Reon rounds tether*** auto correct [emoji849]