How to Choose a Lanyard for Tree Climbing - TreeStuff.com

[Music] hi I'm Nick Bonner for tree stuff comm and we're gonna look at a couple different lanyard options talk about some of the differences in how you would configure some of these options because online you know you go on the website there's like a lot if I say a hundred someone on YouTube will say there's not a hundred but there's a lot of different lanyard configurations when you start talking about whether or not to use a prusik or a mechanical adjuster what kind of pulley you're gonna use it really starts to get out we aren't gonna discuss some of the fancier adjusters today we'll save those for a different video so if you're looking for the Arte adjuster for the zillion or Zeon those things are not in today's video but here you're gonna see a very basic set up this is my preferred setup I've got a rap star hitch right here sterling Tritech which I firmly believe is the best lanyard material out there it's extremely durable it offers a minor amount of cut resistance that to me just transfers into really long lasting durability so you've got an ISC triple action snap here again we're coming to a very simple pulley this just happens to be the notch one any pulley really will work here you know until you start adding extra holes I don't know that there's a lot of benefit between switching between the different police but you know this one's cheap and it works really well so here I am d2d obviously you know these lanyards can be used to the lower DS as well and all of them are gonna kind of you know be able to do this so I won't demonstrate that necessarily with all of them so you know this is again like gonna be your most basic lanyard setup right it's gonna be terminated in some way to this whether it's open or closed or you know even maybe simply with a double fisherman's knot there there's a ton of different other types you know you can look at what's called a double ended adjustable and this at first glance is gonna look really similar to the lanyard that I just showed you except one of the big differences is I've tied a bi-directional not here so on here I have a V T or a valid hey interest braids and twists and you know this is only gonna work in one direction whereas this one's gonna work in either so what that gives you is it allows you to turn this lanyard into a double-ended adjustable and I could have done it with that smaller one but it's gonna work better with this longer one here and so here you know I could say I'm lanyard it in here I can take the tail of this lanyard and come around here and then use it to clip in and now I have a second point of safety attachment however because I'm using a pulley here if this one wasn't on and I were to even if I had this nice and tight if I were to fall you see it's just gonna run out right now that's okay kind of in that you know I would have taken a fall but I am still protected so you will see a lot of people go ahead and while they're switched in you'll see them so they'll be tied in here like this they'll come up nice and tight they're nice and secure and let's say they need to switch over to this limb they'll take this one and put it here as kind of that backup safety right and then from a positive stance you'll see people come in like this right and move this lanyard around until it gets over here and then wade into it knowing that had they fallen this one would have saved them is that appropriate for every condition no it isn't you as a climber need to make a decision as to whether or not you can use a double-ended adjustable lanyard in that fashion however if you're ever unsure and you feel like you need both legs of that to run you can simply remove the pulley and because we're using a bi-directional prusik it's gonna work in both directions and it won't run because of that pulley so that's another option you don't need to use Tritech to do this you don't have to have splice thighs or snaps you know you can make one of these with a prusik and a piece of rope with knots in it and carabiners so great option I started climbing on a double-ended adjustable lanyard it really made sense to me and it gave me a lot of options before I knew how to integrate back and forth between my climbing system in my lanyard which isn't something that we're done reading here today as you start to look away from cloth lanyards and towards more mechanical things here I'm going to show you two new things two different things so this is a steel or wire core lanyards um these are not chainsaw proof they are cut resistant I don't think that you can cut through one of these with a handsaw in a reasonable real-life scenario but so for me personally I feel pretty comfortable using my handsaw around one of these but you absolutely can cut through this with a trim saw so you know you can watch all the youtube videos that you want that say you can or you can't I'm telling you right now that you can cut through this with even a small trim saw so these are not chainsaw proof but right away you'll see that the wire does offer more than just cut resistance and that it offers a certain amount of rigidity this can be really nice when you're flipping up on Spurs and you need to push that lanyard up so you see that works really well right there and it doesn't suffer from moisture or from like you know just the general floppiness that regular rope does but in a lot of other ways this is gonna work just like a regular lanyard you see this one here has a swiveling snap hook on it I definitely recommend a swivel when you're using a steel cable inside of the laner it doesn't have the same rotation that rope does and this will just make it a lot easier on this side you see I've switched to a mechanical adjuster which I cannot pay out under load so that's no noticeable difference between using a prusik however when I go to slack it out it does work really well when I'm not weighted and it does ascend nice and smooth and there's very little setback with this the only setback you're really gonna see is the amount of this pivoting action whereas with a plastic it tends to be a little bit more you can absolutely use one of these steel core lanyards with a prusik if you choose to and it'll work just like the first lanyard that I showed you know and you can even use one of these as a double and adjustable lanyard if you wanted to so these come in a lot of different lengths the Rope illogic ones I think are by far and above the best you know you do see failures associated with old age and a lack of a lack of people replacing them with the other brands we've never had a failure with one of these ever it's because we don't just like swage the cable in there the cable and the load supporting jacket or both held underneath this swage so you have redundancy because the jacket and the cable are both strong enough for you and you've never seen one of these fail and I don't think you ever will so if you're gonna get a steel core lanyard absolutely get a rope logic one the other brands might be a little cheaper or you might find them at more stores or something like that but these are absolutely the best and certainly the safest you just you see too many pictures of those orange ones failing definitely really like this if you work in a standards rich environment um you know where you have you need something that meets every standard associated depending on your industry or your employer we also sell this this is called D Azua so that is anthe underwriter laboratory approved or listed right this meets every relevant US certification it's made out of 9/16 rope it has a stitch it comes with a big snap here which is an ANSI rated snap or anthe it's a snap that meets the ansi ratings excuse me and she doesn't rate things so I try to avoid saying ANSI rated but it meets the ANSI ratings and then also over here you're gonna notice the carabiner has a 3600 pound gate which also meets the ANSI requirements so this lanyard comes complete with everything that you need to meet every US standard regardless of what kind of industry you're in I think that requires a work positioning or fall restraint lanyard so you know if you work in a wit place where something like this is required I think this is a great choice it might not be my first choice necessarily as lanyard but it definitely is a good choice if it's something that's required I hope that this video was helpful for you guys in determining which lanyard might be right for you I always recommend people start with something simple you know a double-ended adjustable lanyard like this will never be a bad place for someone to start all of the components that go into it are gonna be able to evolve as you decide to go towards something that's maybe a little sporty or with a V hitch or something like this that's unidirectional or if you decide you want to add a mechanical adjuster of any type you know those can all be added to these smaller ropes Stirling Tritech I think is a great choice especially for beginners if they do Nick it with their hands soft you know it's going to be more resistant to that and you know definitely a safer option so I check all these lanyards out this and everything we sell it tree stuff comm is always available for 5% off with the discount code arborist thanks for watching

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Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 08 2020