Setting a Harness up

[samthornton1990]

Haha I only got it yesterday, comfiest one I've worn yet. Think I'll go hang in a tree and try set it up. Get the back rest a bit higher up

[IanW]

Depends on how you're built and how you climb as well.

I like my Sequoia cinched tight round the waist (26", muscular), and looser round the thighs, but that's just what suits me.

 

 

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defo agree with loose leg straps, even after a good piss n 2 hours climbing I'm not even close to 26" lol

[IanW]

Haha I only got it yesterday, comfiest one I've worn yet. Think I'll go hang in a tree and try set it up. Get the back rest a bit higher up

 

 

I have the old sequoia so the new 2014 might be different !!

[glark]

 

Lol quality

[IanW]

Get a proper harness non of these petzl thongs that you chaps are wearing

 

 

which is?

[normandylumberjack]

I have a sequoia mk1 and it slips with the lightest of saws on the rear, with the 390xp its not worth clipping to the harness, but the rope on a prussik until it's needed.

32" waist, beer gut

[CJM]

which is?

 

Not a petzl

[IanW]

Not a petzl

 

 

your harness is?

[IanW]

just curious

[Mark Bolam]

Joking aside (and I did quote my waist size from 25 years ago - Grrrrr, I would have got away with it without you Huck, you meddling kid!), it also depends on what the bulk of your work is.

A beefy harness may suit you much better for instance if most of your work is takedowns on spikes.

A lighter harness may suit a top pruning lad better.

I was surprised by my Sequoia, as it falls in the latter category but most of my work is in the former.

 

I've caned it for 5 years and will buy another when it's shot, replaced the bridge about 3 times.

 

It's such an individual thing though.

 

Most good climbers I've worked with have the Sequoia or Treemotion, although I'm sure there are other really good contenders out there.

 

Don't ever be influenced by price, you will spend more time in your harness than boozing with your mates and having sex with your lass put together.

 

 

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