Quick Draw McGraw

[Ekka]

I like having my weapon right by my side, ready for action as it may be ...

... and holstered just a quick with one hand when the smoke is in the eye.

Check it out.

 

[Ekka]

We buy it from our local arbor shop. The hook is really handy, no-one I have installed it for has gone back to the old way.

The tool strop has a bungee type cord so it doesn't get caught easily and not in the way ... no more of that tool strop getting stuck on the bar either.

They make 2 versions, I have the one with a ring and then where the ring is they make another with a simple carabiner. That way you can clip into the 2nd set of D's if you want but I don't get inverted to often for the hook to let the saw slip out! And you have to use your fingers to open that carabiner where as with the hook just drop it on.

Think about the amount of times you get caught with a saw in your hand and have to dump it? No more with this gizmo and it doesn't twist around with the T-Piece on top.

 

[a_lopa]

i like that!

 

[a_lopa]

itll be due out 30/6/05 sean.LOL

 

[Thor's Hammer]

not quite as sophisticated, but i've used this rig for about ten years. used to have one of those cool bungy strops but lost it. three strand is stiff enough not to flop into the bar, but i must get a bungy strop again

 

[jamie]

3 strand

funnily enough all of our 3 strand strops have that same fray in the middle

jamie

 

[Ekka]

Hey Thor

That's the set up I used to run but the advantage of the hook is you can just drop the saw onto it, no mucking around trying to open carabiner gates.

You can make one up by copying the design out of say 8mm rod, these are made out of aluminium and the top T part is welded and then it's painted.

Make sure the hook hangs further down than your D ring though.

 

[Tree Machine]

bungee lanyards

I like the T-hook. It is practical, quick, simple, all the things I like. I'm one of those monkeys, though, that finds myself the far side of horizontal quite a bit.


I'm finding the chainsaw lanyard bungee strop thing hilarious, though. Why do we all have the same nick in the same place?

My bungee strop was one of the first pieces I fabricated, it's about 8 years old. Ya know how bungee cords fall apart with exposure to sun? Wrap them in tube webbing and they can last up to 8 years.

I've gone out of my way to not show this piece to everyone. It doesn't exist in the US market. There's a weak cousin to it, called the tear-away lanyard and that's what is sold, but it's wimpy, not a whole lot better than a straight strap, or rope.

The reason you don't see strong bungee lanyards is an ANSI thing, and a saw-snatcher thing. Saw snatcher is when you're on a lead, you go to cut a limb, and the limb takes your saw with it. This can happen to the most experienced guy. If your saw is attached to the lanyard, the saw snatcher limb can take your hips with it. With the tearaway lanyards, supposedly you have a better chance.

This is one of those reasons why we tie in twice when making a cut.

I like to remove my saw (usually) from the strop while making a cut, unless I'm on a naked spire dancing with the 394. The caribiner that connects to the saw is 100% dedicated to that purpose. It is an aluminum Petzl William ball lock. I chose it for the shape, and that if you drill out the ball and little spring behind it, it converts it from a triple lock to an auto lock, much faster on and off times, no need even to look, no need for you fingers to have to 'think'.

 

[Ekka]

Good ole bungee strop, I love it.

Hey TM, did you notice on our Aussie style saddles we have 2xD rings on the side, so if you're an "inverter' you put a simple carabiner on on the ring and clip into the second D.

They also make these bungee strops with a carabiner stitched in where the ring is.

The saddle I use is a Buckingham traverse

 

[Tree Machine]

I like the dual D rings. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for pointing it out. Dual D's would work well for me.

They also make these bungee strops with a carabiner stitched in where the ring is.

Mine is tube webbing scrunched down over 12 mm bungee. Yours looks like it's coiled, like curly Q. I like what I see. Feed us another pic of it half-stretched?

Having the bungee strop sewn into the saddle would work. I don't think I've ever taken mine off the saddle. I have never had a reason.

 

[Jim1NZ]

Yea those bungee's are the way to go, i have a smiler set up with a 3 strand spliced into a ring and a short sling off that which hitches off onto the saw. It works fine but the 3 strand seems to get caught up sometimes.

Bungee sounds like the way to go...

 

[Tree Machine]

I feel like the bungee is one of my essentials. No one else is using them because they're simply not sold here.

I made a long version for one of my bucket buddies. He calls it a "Throw your Saw Away". He attaches the human end to the bucket and found that when he does a cut, he can just 'Throw his saw away' and deal with the limb at hand. He had it for a couple years and ended up putting a lethal cut into it. I thought he was gonna cry.

Same guy has been after me for a long time to make and market these things. He thinks they're my best 'invention' yet. First, it's not an invention, or even anything remotely original. I found the idea in a marine supply store, for attaching boats to a dock. All I did was use fatter bungee and stick a biner on each end.

He's threatening to go ahead and do it himself because he loves the performance of the bungee strop. I tell him there's reasons that bungee lanyards are not sold in the US and you'd be steppin into a hot fire. I get queasy even thinking about showing how to properly make one. All it takes are two vises and stainless steel wire, but it has to be made bombproof, otherwise ya throw your saw away and if the strop fails, you either have a human or a saw that don't do so well.

 

[Ekka]

Feed us another pic of it half-stretched?

Here's a pic of it stretched for you.