startopper
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Thought some of you might find this interesting or have feedback. I noticed this fray, well really more like complete failure of a stitch on my Dragonfly ll saddle that is slightly less than two years old. The day before I noticed this I was about 50 feet up in the saddle doing some pretty hairy stuff. The picture of me climbing is day 1, day 2 never happened because of the failure. I'm glad it didn't fail completely on day one, I might not be writing this. Granted my bridge would still have been supported by the D ring and it's stitching on my side and I wouldn't have just fallen out of the tree by any means. You can see in the picture I had two main high lines and a 15ft lanyard all secure. But even an unplanned body shift of a few inches can never be good when you have a running chain saw. Well I'm still waiting to hear back from Sherill Tree so I'll keep you updated as to what they think of this. I mean there's only a single line of stitching there, seems like a bad and dangerous design, don't you think?