steel strop snapped

[Shane]

This takes me back to the dreaded statistics pyramid...

If one strop has rusted right through there may well be dozens ALMOST rusted through and hundreds well on the way.

I'm anxious like everyone else - here is a piece of kit we all use and trust implicitly.

I guess we all feel that a sttel core is pretty well infalible and the only problem we ever see is one or two starnds fraying on the outside.

If it can fail like this with no warning everyone needs to be aware and given some guideline by the mahufacturer on how to test it properly.

What do LOLER testers do with them when testing - what SHOULD loler testers do?

This is 'kin scary

[Treegeek]

As the others have mentioned info like this should be circulated thourgh the wider arb community.

I have a rust issue we work exclusivly on road side trees and the steel rivets on my spike covers have rusted and caused corrosion of the aluminium spike's them selves had them checked over by a loller inspector and have polished out the corrosion but i feel that its due to all the salt put on the roads this winter, as the salt thay have used this year is refined marine salt not rock salt and is far more corrosive generaly i wonder if this may affect other possibly the wire flip line in question ???????

[Steve Bullman]

id like to see pictures and know a little bit more about the general state of the kit and hows its been used before making assumptions

[penfold]

Tree geek if the rivets are steel and the spikes are aluminium then it could be electrolytic corrosion which is something all land rover owners are familiar with. Its just the two metals having a tiff.

[skyhuck]

its due for loler in a few weeks

 

I'd be taking legal advice if I were you. Whats the point of us paying for all this nonsense (IMO) if there is no redress???

Edited February 26, 2011 by skyhuck

[skyhuck]

This takes me back to the dreaded statistics pyramid...

If one strop has rusted right through there may well be dozens ALMOST rusted through and hundreds well on the way.

I'm anxious like everyone else - here is a piece of kit we all use and trust implicitly.I guess we all feel that a sttel core is pretty well infalible and the only problem we ever see is one or two starnds fraying on the outside.

If it can fail like this with no warning everyone needs to be aware and given some guideline by the mahufacturer on how to test it properly.

What do LOLER testers do with them when testing - what SHOULD loler testers do?

This is 'kin scary

 

Not ALL , I've never used one and don't want too

[Steve Bullman]

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.

 

I'm sorry but this thread means nothing without pictures and history.

[High Scale]

I'm sorry but this thread means nothing without pictures and history.

 

I agree, I have only ever seen slight surface rust on a steel core lanyard, for one to rust to a point where it snaps into two pieces makes me think that perhaps the lanyard was very,very old, abused and shouldn't have been in use in the first place?

[Paul Jenks]

I always use a swedish strop. It takes longer for the saw to cut through and is easier to bully through ivy and deadwood. Good quality stainless steel too.

That big suage on the end bloody well hurts when it catches your knuckles though.

[danroker1987]

ive never liked the idea of not being able to see the wire bond,ive allways used the blue chunky looking bond, correct me if im wrong but didnt the american loggers use to use just wire bond ??? at least you can see if its on its way out. or would people rather not have there hands cut to bits with wire bond??? i dunno!