In my case, longer lanyards would generally cost me time rather than
save it. In theory, they would allow me to climb more steps before I
had to reposition them, but in practice they are more likely to get
tangled in the climbing steps. There is almost always a moderate breeze
here at my QTH and my experience even with my shorter lanyards is that
the windward lanyard is always looping across a step. Reaching as high
as I can to take out the slack minimizes that tendency, but my arms are
somewhat shorter than 6 feet. ;)
73,
Dave AB7E
On 8/20/2010 10:38 AM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
> In thinking it through, I think the downside to shorter lanyards is that you
> have you clip/unclip more often. With my Petzl industrial Y-lanyard with
> fall arrest, the 6¹ lanyards allow me to climb three rungs before
> clipping/unclipping. Shorter lanyard would only allow one or two steps,
> right?
>
> 73, Dick WC1M
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