Would This Work?

[Mull]

Is the right answer !

 

 

Phew!

[Justme]

I doubt you could make it stiff enough or mounted ridgedly enough to stop it moving if you fell on to it so you would still hit the chain

[Haironyourchest]

I doubt you could make it stiff enough or mounted ridgedly enough to stop it moving if you fell on to it so you would still hit the chain

 

Maybe so, it would be flexible by its nature. Still would stop the chain penetrating far though. It was Oldwoodcutter's "Close Call" thread that started me thinking. Remember that lad who was killed by his topper biting him in the neck? I don't know the details but if it were the back of the bar that hit him, maybe this invention might have saved him. Im thinking at some stage I will have to chuck down a spar, and the idea of gaffing out and slipping onto the back of the bar has me thinking. I realise guys do this every day and with proper technique there should not be any possibility of that happening, yet - people do have accidents.