Idea if you can't whistle

[Lancstree]

Someone once pointed out that the buckle on the chest strap of my rucksack doubles as a whistle in case of emergency. My idea is that you could easily put a similar whistle-clip on the chin strap of your helmet to blow when you need to get someones attention in a noisy environment. Could one of you suppliers get one invented because I can't whistle very loud.

 

Here's the sort of thing I'm talking about:

 

Rucksack Chest Strap with Whistle - 19mm - Rock + Run

[Rupe]

Or do what loads of people do already and buy a whistle and hang it on your chinstrap.

[Dave D]

i used to clip a whistle to my chin strap but didnt like the idea of getting caught in the face with something and the whistle being between my face and the object, so i used to carry it in my personal first aid kit.

 

beat me to it rupe, i didnt see your post.

[Daniël Bos]

can you not just replace your existing one with one of these, they cost very little.

Whistling buckley strap thingies on fleabay

[Lancstree]

Or do what loads of people do already and buy a whistle and hang it on your chinstrap.

 

Do they? I wouldn't have a whistle flopping around under my chin! These things are neat Rupe and wouldn't be noticed

[Rupe]

On petzle helmets its not that easy to remove the existing buckle, so adding a seperate whistle is probably better.

 

The question is, is it ok if you have to remove the helmet in order to blow the whistle? If you use one one of those buckles ain place of your actuall buckle, then you would have to undo the chin strap and, I'm guessing, take the helmet off.

[Rupe]

Mines on the end of the spare bit of strap. it hangs to one side a bit, not really a problem.

[Lancstree]

Maybe you can, as long as its not too bulky.

[Lancstree]

You would certainly have to unbuckle the chin strap to blow the whistle but I don't think it would be necessary to take the helmet off. I can't really see any issues with unbuckling, blowing a whistle then re-buckling

[Daniël Bos]

you could just do what these buckles are meant for, have them on a bracelet, if you have a paracord bracelet you'll have one of those whistle-buckles and a length of emergency paracord.

 

Or cheaper stil....... learn to whistle.