steel strop snapped

[heartwood tree tech]

was sectioning down a dead elm yesterday. i felt a little twich in my strop. on closer inspection when i got down the steel core had snapped. the core had rusted through but there was no signs of red rust coming through at all. it was only a few years old. i had developed quite a bond with it and a new one will not be the same. ow well happy days.

[Tom D]

Thats actually quite serious, what make was it, got any pics of the failiure?

 

If there are others like it out there.....

[skyhuck]

When was it last LOLER'd ??

[heartwood tree tech]

When was it last LOLER'd ??

its due for loler in a few weeks

[heartwood tree tech]

Thats actually quite serious, what make was it, got any pics of the failiure?

 

If there are others like it out there.....

yale. the blue and white one. ill sort some pictures out.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Perhaps this should also be reported under RIDDOR as a 'near miss' which could have resulted in a 'major injury'...or worse.

 

If you are able to include further details I will liaise with HSE with a view to informing the wider industry.

 

Please disclose all relevant information that will help your peers and colleagues to avoid a similar occurence.

 

THANK YOU for sharing this and thank goodness nothing serious occured as a result.

 

Take care out there..!

 

Paul

[morten]

Perhaps this should also be reported under RIDDOR as a 'near miss' which could have resulted in a 'major injury'...or worse.

 

If you are able to include further details I will liaise with HSE with a view to informing the wider industry.

 

Please disclose all relevant information that will help your peers and colleagues to avoid a similar occurence.

 

THANK YOU for sharing this and thank goodness nothing serious occured as a result.

 

Take care out there..!

 

Paul

 

Agree. It is of vital importance that details are disclosed, including product details and pictures of the failure, to allow other arborists to quickly determine if they risk similar failures.

 

Once the info is available, we should possibly also ask to have a sticky thread created in the climbing forum, warning about this issue.

 

Yale should also be contacted to allow them to investigate and consider a product call-back.

 

I usually have complete faith in my wire-core fliplines, but after this...

[High Scale]

Please post pictures as soon as you can of the steel core, how old was it, has it been subjected to a fall? So many questions, I use a Yale steel core myself, worrying.

Edited February 26, 2011 by High Scale

[Husqvarna King]

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Edited February 26, 2011 by John Shutler
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[Johny Walker]

were abouts has it snapped,