Lanyard idea.

[Rich Rule]

Looking like a slick gunslinger from the Wild West.

 

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[AHPP]

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Edited Wednesday at 11:32 by AHPP

[Haironyourchest]

On 06/12/2023 at 00:35, peds said:

I don't climb very often, and I tend to just assume all my kit is still in the box when I go to use it.

I did have a vague recollection yesterday morning as I was tooling up of using my saw lanyard as an emergency dog lead at some point in recent history, and not remembering where it went after that. Never mind, I'll just use this dog lead instead, an offcut of an abused and trimmed mountaineering rope. 

 

 

Barrel knot on the handle, overhand on a bight for clipping. Does just fine.

 

At the risk of being a safety nanny... have you considered putting a weak link between you and the saw? Like the top handle saws have, the little folding clip will fail if the bar gets stuck in a branch as it separates from the tree. It's not happened to me yet, but I suppose it does happen occasionally to someone somewhere. There's a destructive test (TÜV) video on the tube where they pull a real Stihl and a clone apart with a machine and measure the force. Loop on the handle, bar bolted to a frame. The Stihl took a ferocious amount of force to break.

[peds]

3 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

 

At the risk of being a safety nanny... have you considered putting a weak link between you and the saw? Like the top handle saws have, the little folding clip will fail if the bar gets stuck in a branch as it separates from the tree. It's not happened to me yet, but I suppose it does happen occasionally to someone somewhere. There's a destructive test (TÜV) video on the tube where they pull a real Stihl and a clone apart with a machine and measure the force. Loop on the handle, bar bolted to a frame. The Stihl took a ferocious amount of force to break.

 

Thanks for the worry, nan! That was very much just a stop-gap measure, and was back to being a dog lead by the end of the week. I'm back to a manufactured lanyard now, clipped on to the breakaway bit of the harness. Cheers!

 

I had the bar stay in the kerf in a falling piece once, not sure how. Held on to the saw, and the falling piece f*cked the bar, had to replace it.

[Haironyourchest]

6 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Thanks for the worry, nan! That was very much just a stop-gap measure, and was back to being a dog lead by the end of the week. I'm back to a manufactured lanyard now, clipped on to the breakaway bit of the harness. Cheers!

 

I had the bar stay in the kerf in a falling piece once, not sure how. Held on to the saw, and the falling piece f*cked the bar, had to replace it.

 

Yeah no problem 👍 Didn't know about the breakaway on the harness option. Don't think my TreeMotion has one. I should research it..

[Rich Rule]

19 hours ago, Haironyourchest said:

 

Yeah no problem 👍 Didn't know about the breakaway on the harness option. Don't think my TreeMotion has one. I should research it..

In recent years the ring for hanging the saw in a TM harness is green.

 

Green is also life support so no breakaway built into the harness.

 

Hence the reason to use a production lanyard with a breakaway built in.

[Mick Dempsey]

26 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

In recent years the ring for hanging the saw in a TM harness is green.

 

Green is also life support so no breakaway built into the harness.

 

Hence the reason to use a production lanyard with a breakaway built in.

Have you ever trapped a saw in a free falling branch?

If so, what was the outcome?

[kram]

The 2511T attachement clip looks a bit on the weak side, wouldnt hold 20kg? I can see the plastic fatiguing and failing as the saw gets old.

 

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Why does it need to hold 20kg?

[billpierce]

37 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Have you ever trapped a saw in a free falling branch?

If so, what was the outcome?

I have, really appreciated the lanyard breaking not pulling me with the 200t to the ground. Was a decent size sycamore limb that just nipped the saw in the kerf. Only happened the once mind. 

Edited Thursday at 17:30 by billpierce