[TowerTalk] Fall Harness-My Choice

[David Gilbert]

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