Check your gear!

[Dan Curtis]

Evening all, just a quick heads up.

 

How many of you go through your kit throughly every day? Or for many is it a case of "it was alright yesterday so nothing's changed"....

 

I check my gear fairly well, but today shook me up a bit. Having completed most of the day's work I came down for a cuppa mid afternoon. I kept my harness on ready to get back up. Whilst enjoying the brew and fiddling with the bridge on my harness, the stitching pretty much disintegrated in my hand. I know it was fine yesterday, and was fine this morning, as I checked it but had I not had that brew, or taken it off, things could have been bad.

 

Another worrying thing is that the bridge is only six ish months old and hasn't taken anything it shouldn't have done.

 

Not trying to scaremonger, just stay safe out there lads:thumbup1:

[Joe Loggs]

Evening all, just a quick heads up.

 

How many of you go through your kit throughly every day? Or for many is it a case of "it was alright yesterday so nothing's changed"....

 

I check my gear fairly well, but today shook me up a bit. Having completed most of the day's work I came down for a cuppa mid afternoon. I kept my harness on ready to get back up. Whilst enjoying the brew and fiddling with the bridge on my harness, the stitching pretty much disintegrated in my hand. I know it was fine yesterday, and was fine this morning, as I checked it but had I not had that brew, or taken it off, things could have been bad.

 

Another worrying thing is that the bridge is only six ish months old and hasn't taken anything it shouldn't have done.

 

Not trying to scaremonger, just stay safe out there lads:thumbup1:

Dan we all have petzls at work and we fly threw bridges between us! I think they could make a safer bridge. Lucky you had that brew bro

[jpbeaver]

Any pics? I used to climb with a lad who had a section of thin rope as a back up bridge.

[redmoosefaction]

Eeeek!

 

We have big strapping (sic) leather bridges, I think you need to whack some photos up.

Do you think it maybe got contaminated, do you remember someone on here had the wire in a wirecore flip line fail after a year... eeeek!

[Ian Flatters]

Lucky you were on the deck it could of been worst case if not.

[Dan Curtis]

This is it having done nothing more than pulling a loose stitch. Its ended up pulling out all the stiches both sides, with the bridge only being held together by the two end stitches.

[Dan Curtis]

So it probably would've held my weight but had I not pulled the loose bit apart I may never have known until the one of the ends failed....

 

Check your gear!

[Mark Bolam]

Which bridge is it?

[Wolfie]

Good post Dan.

That's one reason why i haven't strayed from the Weaver. I feel safe with a cow wrapped around me.

[Dan Curtis]

Eeeek!

 

We have big strapping (sic) leather bridges, I think you need to whack some photos up.

Do you think it maybe got contaminated, do you remember someone on here had the wire in a wirecore flip line fail after a year... eeeek!

 

I doubt it has been contaminated by anything, certainly not to my knowledge. The original main loose stitch was in the middle of the bridge where my swivel spends most of its time.

 

Just been checking out another bridge I retired after three years, having used it in the same configuration. It's a covered one, so no signs of wear in the centre, but who knows what's going on inside?

 

Don't recall the failed flipline, I've seen a few dodgy ones though. Kinks in the wire are a good failure point