I hate silkys :(

[janey]

I did this yesterday. It ripped part of my nail clean off.

 

Well that's your manicure ruined for the weekend

[Eagle]

I took the tip of my thumb off with my Silky, but it heals fast enough!

[Tnarg25]

one of my mates borrowed mine lol 8 stitches and two weeks off work i told him silkys were sharp !!!!! and his wife blamed me !!!

[David Goss]

trick is - never try and catch a sharp thing!

 

on my gomtaro, i put a 1.5m piece of 5mm braid through handle an tie a overhand, the other end i attach to the sheath clip, works great.

 

Tried that before but its just another thing to get caught up in twigs etc so i abandoned the idea pretty quickly. Trying to catch it was just the automatic reaction of a tired climber, not thinking quickly enough and just throwing the hand in front of the spinning blade from hell hoping to catch the handle:001_rolleyes:

[David Goss]

can do, i just keep the rope arms length etc. - and you do have to sort it out now and again - much better than having to come down if dropped:biggrin:

 

come down? dont you have groundies to send it back up for you? i dont drop it often anyway so no need to worry, just need to remember not to try and catch it:blushing:

[David Goss]

i'm a one man band, no-one near to help.

 

seriously?

is that even legal? you need to get a groundy mate, what if you hurt yourself in the tree? not worth the risk IMO.

[Taupotreeman]

One man band too at the weekends but generally now just for the smaller stuff. Went through the end of my thumb with the silky today after mistaking it for the branch I was cutting. Climbing line, saw, strop, branches and anything else near was covered in blood.

[Martyn Amos]

welcome to club silky !

 

i dont hate them,because they do such a good job,but you have to be super duper careful:001_rolleyes:

 

and thats coming from someone who just had their stitches out yesterday,due to a cut nerve in the wrist [silky] 4 weeks ago:001_huh:

 

comes with the job,safe cutting chaps

[Neil Frost]

I gave myself the regulation "4 cuts" the other day in a cherry. It was the very last branch as well!

[David Goss]

depends, i am over cautious and always use a silky - if its a rear handled job with heavy lowering, i do pull someone in.

 

"I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form"

 

I know where your coming from mate but take care all the same

 

I still cant figure out how to do multi quotes on this thing yet

Taupotreeman i hear you there, why is it silky cuts bleed so much? it can be just the smallest of punctures but the blood flows like its the biggest.