My thinking is that when a saw gets yanked out of my hand I am going to give it a kiss goodbye and whoever is down there had better be paying attention. Sure there are breakaway lanyards but ,still, I would rather not be a test dummy for one. Even if the lanyard broke like it supposed to it would still give a guy a good yank and possibly put him in bad position or maybe it would yo-yo the saw back into one's face. These are just my feelings.
I just stopped at the saw shop to get some new sprockets and they said OSHA would give me a ticket if I didn't replace the chain stopper. I didn't realize the one was broken. Now chain stoppers I believe in.
If you remember me talkin bout dis. Some years ago, I hired this hippie kid. Was a "superstar" told me all his skills, sounded good. I knew who he had worked for and that was a fault, but he said he quit them because he was so "pro". I get him on this big oak, first day. He goes up and drops a 192 about 40ft, bounces off the roof and misses the HO's head by about a foot. I had a old style snap lanyard for him, he didn't like the way if felt so he un clipped it (I didn't know this until after) He wasn't even cutting, just getting into position (or I should saying trying, he sucked pretty bad) and just let go of it. This guy was a ordained priest in "Dudism" A total tool. He lasted............that long. Should have canned him when we walked on the job and he see's the tree, which was pretty big, and says, in front of the HO BTW "How the F are we going to do this?" Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......... Should have canned him right there and then. Couple days later, it was time to go. It was after I set up a drift rig and he had never seen one (Pro huh?). Kept yelling up at me that it was going to hit, that I should do it a different way, so I did. Came down, cleaned up. Took him to his house, paid him, canned him. Went and picked up my wife, went back, set up the drift and it went perfect. Imagine that.
I get what ur saying bout getting jerked if it got caught, but I don't think I could pull ya out. Stranger things have happened tho, so who knows. It is mandatory that you have any gear aloft secured. I use the longer red double ring and a loop ones with a cari-tool that I have on each side. Girth the loop to the clip. Hook the long ring to the little clip on the saddle and the short ring to the cari-tool. I can one hand in it or out with out looking.