Petzl sequoia buckle serious failure

[Dan Earp]

Very lucky bud. Ive been using mine for around 3yrs and havent had a problem😕 may have be a batch which was faulty and slipped through!

Strange

Tree motion next i think

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I dint have a sequoia but that broken buckle is not cause for wild panic. If the OP had sat back in the harness and the buckle failed, he would have simply sat into the harness, not fallen out the front if it.

 

I'm not saying that it's all good, just not cause to condemn it.

 

Keep safe chaps.

[T159]

Thanks guys.

Most likely a bad batch, but a bad batch of harnesses isn't a good thing.

At the point I noticed it, the buckle was under tension, had I leaned forward and weight had came off of it, it would have opened and the waist belt would have dropped down, not idea at 70feet, so quite serious in my opinion.

[TTP]

Fluck that

 

 

What he said

[David Dobedoe]

Contact Lyon Equipment.... In my experience they are very helpful.

[Steve Bullman]

Just a note to say I was contacted by Lyon, the distributor and asked to mention that they have seen this thread and are awaiting the harness back from the retailer.

 

Furthermore:

 

 

'The FAST buckle was designed back in 2003 so there are tens of thousands of buckles of this type in service on a range of harnesses for both the arb and rescue markets. Obviously until we get the harness back we are not able to comment formally on what might have happened in this particular case, but we are not aware of an incident like this before with a new harness.'

[skyhuck]

I dint have a sequoia but that broken buckle is not cause for wild panic. If the OP had sat back in the harness and the buckle failed, he would have simply sat into the harness, not fallen out the front if it.

 

I'm not saying that it's all good, just not cause to condemn it.

 

Keep safe chaps.

 

[Gary Prentice]

Just a note to say I was contacted by Lyon, the distributor and asked to mention that they have seen this thread and are awaiting the harness back from the retailer.

 

Furthermore:

 

 

'The FAST buckle was designed back in 2003 so there are tens of thousands of buckles of this type in service on a range of harnesses for both the arb and rescue markets. Obviously until we get the harness back we are not able to comment formally on what might have happened in this particular case, but we are not aware of an incident like this before with a new harness.'

 

Does that mean that they are aware of similar incidents with buckles that have longer term use then? Just wondering due to the wording of the statement.

[T159]

I'm looking forward to what petzl make of it, especially because there's no damage to either the buckle or the plastic clasp. I think it quite likely with the number of harnesses they've produced, they must have come across this before. IMO a vital part of a climbing harness, such as the waist buckle, should never be able to fail, which is why a lot of harness's have threaded buckles.

Also, why are petzl using plastic for their buckles, when the designed the am'd ball lock karabiner with a plastic gate, that isn't fit for professional use, surely then a plastic harness buckle, or at least the key pieces of the harness buckle isn't fit for use??

[wakarb]

I'm looking forward to what petzl make of it, especially because there's no damage to either the buckle or the plastic clasp. I think it quite likely with the number of harnesses they've produced, they must have come across this before. IMO a vital part of a climbing harness, such as the waist buckle, should never be able to fail, which is why a lot of harness's have threaded buckles.

Also, why are petzl using plastic for their buckles, when the designed the am'd ball lock karabiner with a plastic gate, that isn't fit for professional use, surely then a plastic harness buckle, or at least the key pieces of the harness buckle isn't fit for use??

 

I agree with you there