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[AHPP]

Your little finger will evolve that way if you don’t put the smartphone down. Mine often does the same. Addicts. 

[peds]

All useful advice, I may or may not take bits of it on board, but that's humans for you.

 

I understand a magnet is a good idea... but that implies that your silky isn't attached to you with another sproingy lanyard...

 

A Grivel ice axe lanyard, leftover from the days when I was young and cool...

 

Does this make me even more of a bender, is everyone else out there just rawdogging their silky?

[Mark J]

2 minutes ago, peds said:

All useful advice, I may or may not take bits of it on board, but that's humans for you.

 

I understand a magnet is a good idea... but that implies that your silky isn't attached to you with another sproingy lanyard...

 

A Grivel ice axe lanyard, leftover from the days when I was young and cool...

 

Does this make me even more of a bender, is everyone else out there just rawdogging their silky?

I don't know and have never seen anyone use a silky with a lanyard. You just put them back in the scabbard or climb like a pirate when needed. The magnet is to stop the saw falling out of a knackered scabbard, you aren't sticking the saw to the outside.

Edited February 27 by Mark J

[AHPP]

Oh aye. Store a load of kinetic energy in a bungee connected to the thing that cuts on the pull. 

[peds]

You guys have clearly never had a day out in the Alpine ruined by losing an ice axe.

 

I haven't either, to be honest (had a day ruined that is... I'm involved in several lost tool episodes). It's actually always made for a better story when we (somehow) got home. 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

3 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Oh aye. Store a load of kinetic energy in a bungee connected to the thing that cuts on the pull. 

Good point.

Reminds me of the line from Seinfeld where he explained why he only bought trousers with a button fly.

”If there is any one place on my body that I don’t want to be in reach of interlocking metal teeth it’s there”

[AHPP]

I’ve got one of those twizzly chainsaw strops. I hate it. Bouncing saw always in the back of my mind (even though it doesn’t rebound like that), hard to grab and slip and makes me look like a tackle tart. 
 

It came in a bundle of stuff. 

Edited February 27 by AHPP

[Mark J]

13 minutes ago, peds said:

You guys have clearly never had a day out in the Alpine ruined by losing an ice axe.

 

I haven't either, to be honest (had a day ruined that is... I'm involved in several lost tool episodes). It's actually always made for a better story when we (somehow) got home. 

 

 

Aye, but generally there's a someone who can just tie on your silky if you do happen to drop it on a tree job, that's maybe trickier when navigating The Dru.. Whatever you do, don't try and grab it when it's falling handle first. 

A mate of mine was helping me out about a 12 years back, he'd never done tree work before, I passed him the silky and he proceeded to cut backwards towards his face and missed by 10mm if that. He's since gone on to climb all over the place. 

Edited February 27 by Mark J

[AHPP]

I’ve never broken a greenhouse with a falling silky but I have been aware of the possibility of doing so. 
 

Is your mate CL by any chance?

[Mark J]

14 minutes ago, AHPP said:

I’ve never broken a greenhouse with a falling silky but I have been aware of the possibility of doing so. 
 

Is your mate CL by any chance?

Nope.

 

30 minutes ago, peds said:

You guys have clearly never had a day out in the Alpine ruined by losing an ice axe.

 

I haven't either, to be honest (had a day ruined that is... I'm involved in several lost tool episodes). It's actually always made for a better story when we (somehow) got home. 

 

 

The thing is, a hanging chainsaw (or an ice ace?) is unlikely to significantly damage a moving rope, a silky might well. 

Edited February 27 by Mark J