Bearclaw said:
With all this talk, I have a question about my saddle. Currently I am using a carabiner (for my chainsaw lanyard ring) through the waiststrap on my master where it is not sewn. However, I can feel the carabiner through the padding, and I have to run my strap (waist) through the carabiner everytime I put my saddle on, thus adding another step.
My question, is there any other way to hang my saw from my saddle that is more user friendly and if so what is the best way when using the buckingham master II?
Good question, Bear. Though the thread is not about chainsaw lanyards, the lanyard and how it interfaces with the saw and your saddle is one of those universal issues 100% unique to arborists. No other profession or climbing discipline could ask such a question.
It took me years of trying different things before I pulled together a system that just thrills me to no end. To thrill me, the system has to perform perfectly and flawlssly every time, that's all I ask. I'll be happy to share what I've got going, but it, too, may be preceeded with a disclaimer.
BeoWulf said:
Did you run that green wire biner on the right side through that little hole where the upper-d connects to the saddle? So you actually don't run your biner between the red belt and the blue back pad-it just actually sits in the little spot where the attachment for that d-ring splits and attaches to the front of the belt and to the back of the belt? In that little hollow I guess you could call it.
BINGO! You can slide one in the little vertical tunnel on each side of the saddle, just behind the D-rings. It's a tight fit, but once you feed a biner in there, it really becomes a permanent part of the saddle, removable, but not without force. To get it in there you need to bend that part of the belt, giving it enough curve so that the biner's curve will follow through there. good luck. You really gotta get pretty manly with it.
See, bearclaw is already doing that, at least on the right side, but he hangs his saw from it, which causes the spine of the biner to twank his right hip. The answer is obvious, have your right side hip bone
surgically removed (heh, heh.) OK, scratch that. The answer goes back to Bear's question about if the chainsaw can be hung in a more user-friendly manner, and I promise, I'll share one way to approach that. There are many, I'm sure, but I'll show you my spin, then the whys and the benefits (the madness behind the method.)
Beo said:
I see in the first picture of your Versatile you have nothing attached to your right accessory snap. However, in the next picture, may I assume that that is where the saddle end of your saw lanyard is attached? What do you do when the gate on that snap breaks or wears out (I've actually had that happen twice on me before the saddle is even close to wearing out!)
Ahh, you are very observant. I normally use that brass snap, on the left side, to hold a Silky ( scabbarded Sugoi these days). I like to keep the right side open, or holding a small accessory biner (a black diamond aluminum hotwire, called a micron). Most anywhere else, that biner is so small I can't locate it. If I find a different use for that snap, I can put the micron elsewhere, but honestly, the right side snap gets very little action.
The brass snap, in answering the other part of that question, is NOT where the saddle end of the saw lanyard is attached. In answering Bear's question about the user-friendly place to hang the saddle end of the saw lanyard, both of your questions are the same. This is officially the $64,000 question, so I will first need $32,000 from each of you, in small, unmarked bills :jawdrop:
Just joking. I need 64,000 from each of you because the question was asked differently :biggrinbounce2:
I joke, but this is a really, really good question.