Neat Freak

[Dan Maynard]

To be fair I haven't tried the neat freak but I just haven't found dangling lanyard a problem that needs solving, it drags through after me. Anything that creates a loop seems to increase chance of it catching on stuff.

[Mark Bolam]

You don’t really count though because a 5m lanyard doesn’t even dangle below your feet.

[Joe Newton]

21 hours ago, Rob Thompson said:

I have my side strop/lanyard set as a double ender 🤐. One side I keep long for extended work positioning, the other side I keep short for standard stuff. The whole line is 8m, I rarely use the long side, so it stays daisy chained with the end clipped to a wire gate. The short end is very easy to manage, like my old side strop that was not so long as to be a stowing problem.

This harness gives me anxiety

[breffni]

23 hours ago, Rob Thompson said:

I have my side strop/lanyard set as a double ender 🤐. One side I keep long for extended work positioning, the other side I keep short for standard stuff. The whole line is 8m, I rarely use the long side, so it stays daisy chained with the end clipped to a wire gate. The short end is very easy to manage, like my old side strop that was not so long as to be a stowing problem.

That harness looks good for the insta crowd but christ it must be a bag of balls when in a busy crown! 

[Rob Thompson]

21 hours ago, Joe Newton said:

This harness gives me anxiety

Whaddaya mean ! 

[Rob Thompson]

19 hours ago, breffni said:

That harness looks good for the insta crowd but christ it must be a bag of balls when in a busy crown! 

I do not have Insta, or any of that sort of thing. When in a busy crown, I use a short, very standard side strop. I also have a bag just for conifers ! This is my big tree side strop. It can also be used as my fruit tree rope, at 8m it is great for that.

The orange 7mm hitch cord looping the whole harness was just me being silly one afternoon when I'd been thinking far too much about redundancy in the bridge ! Just haven't got around to taking it off yet.

I made a long double side strop when I recently added srwp to my skills. I felt that it'd help me make the transition. At first, it was a bag of balls, when both ends were long. But now, with one end short, I just need to choose the right tool for the job when in the crown. Short for the obvious strop on, long for the more tricky work positioning. I like it a lot now that I've grown accustomed to it.

[Rob Thompson]

On 02/08/2021 at 19:10, Tommy_B said:

Not ground breaking but I'll be selling this idea for £89.99

That's pretty cool, it'd be better on a petzl carritool.

[Joe Newton]

3 hours ago, Rob Thompson said:

Whaddaya mean ! 

🤣 whatever works for you mate, having two seperate lanyards would make my life hell for most jobs! I don't have a dedicated conny kit in fairness!

 

I was trying to work out what was going on with that spare bridge too.

[Rob Thompson]

28 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

🤣 whatever works for you mate, having two seperate lanyards would make my life hell for most jobs! I don't have a dedicated conny kit in fairness!

 

I was trying to work out what was going on with that spare bridge too.

That was a silly flight of fancy, it will be coming off. The whole redundancy argument is a ridiculous rabbit hole !

 

I am tempted to make a one end 4 or 5m lanyard to see how it goes. It'd be nice to cut some weight.

 

I've been taking everything including the kitchen sink up trees since adding srt. I need to work backwards and taylor what's really needed.

[Joe Newton]

5 hours ago, Rob Thompson said:

That was a silly flight of fancy, it will be coming off. The whole redundancy argument is a ridiculous rabbit hole !

 

I am tempted to make a one end 4 or 5m lanyard to see how it goes. It'd be nice to cut some weight.

 

I've been taking everything including the kitchen sink up trees since adding srt. I need to work backwards and taylor what's really needed.

One tape sling/crab and a pinto/hitch cord/crab is all I usually take up, apart from whatever I'm using for my canopy tie