How many of you carry a knife up top?

[skyhuck]

Kinky boots!!!

[jomoco]

I generally have enough lace left to do double duty if my 200's starter cord snaps up top!

 

Jomoco:biggrin:

[Mark Bolam]

Hahaha, fair one mate!

 

They do look good for long stem time on spikes.

 

 

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[treequip]

Carrying a knife while aloft is one of the most overlooked aspects of safety gear for climbers IMO.

 

The ability to cut a climbing line in half, whether it's your own, or that of an injured climber you're performing an aerial rescue for, can be extremely vital.

 

Now I know many of you may be thinking you don't need to carry a knife aloft because you carry a handsaw. But actually cutting a climbing line in half with a handsaw is easier said than actually done in my experience. Particularly a line that isn't taut. Knives have many other uses aloft as well. Like probing cavities to determine their actual depth before climbing above them for instance.

 

This is my setup.

 

Knife's a Kershaw Amphibian with a serrated blade on one side.

 

In the UK, the powers that be like us to carry a personal first aid kit. Mine lives on the back of my harness and my rescue knife is in there.

 

If you forgot that knife was in your boot top and you walked into town the police would be on to you in a heart beat, but then again those boots would attract plenty of attention all by themselves.

[Mark Bolam]

Mind you, so do my Salewas with carbon fibre Geckos!

 

 

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[jomoco]

Way back in the late 70's while workin in LA, one of the groundies had a Brown Recluse spider run up his legs and bite him in the family jewels and put him in the hospital in bad shape.

 

It was then that I started wearing tall boots and tucking my trousers in them to make sure such a thing never happened to me, ever!

 

Jomoco

[T14EES T14UNK]

Is it ok to wear chainsaw shorts with those boots. Summer option. 😎

[skyhuck]

Way back in the late 70's while workin in LA, one of the groundies had a Brown Recluse spider run up his legs and bite him in the family jewels and put him in the hospital in bad shape.

 

It was then that I started wearing tall boots and tucking my trousers in them to make sure such a thing never happened to me, ever!

 

Jomoco

 

So you wear those over your trousers????

 

I guess seeing that happen to a co-worker would make one want to prevent it happening to you!!!

[DJP Arb]

I have a 6" lock knife with a "rope cutting" blade that is tied onto a biner on my harness. Never start a climb without it.

[Joe Newton]

I have a kershaw carabiner knife on my personal harness, and at work I carry a 3 1/2" folding Swiss army single blade in my pocket

 

 

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