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Do you wear your leg straps

Leg straps or no leg straps

  • Yes

    Votes: 88 75.9%

  • No

    Votes: 28 24.1%
  • Total voters
    116
tailgunner said:
Cigarettes kill people ..legstraps dont...still compairing fatalities to bruises.acording to All known data.if we find out someone died from wearing strap..via suspension trauma...guess what....people will wear them anyways.even if data showed you could only get bruized without them and could die with them.
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Is that truly fair? Suspension trauma occurs because the blood pools in the legs and cannot get back to the heart and brain to supply oxygen. To be fair there are people who have passed out and even died from blood pooling in their legs, simply because they stood up too long.. one thing that is important is people learning recovery techniques, or understanding how to help elevate their legs level with their heart. I mean if you fall and the leg straps aren’t worn and the saddle rides up and cracks your rib and your rib punctures your lung, the report won’t say death from no leg strap, it’ll say death from internal injuries sustained from a fall….
 
DelaWhere_Arrow said:
I hadn’t thought about that, but isn’t it supposed to be like a “5-point Fall Arrest System” or some jargon of the sort? I remember talking to one of the honchos at HSS about the testing on my treestand harness years ago. He was particular about some kind of similar description of the requirements.
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No sir OSHA’s maximum allowable fall distance in a work positioning harness or body belt is 24” or less… a FBH has a 6’ lanyard so you’d fall at least 6’ lol
 
Chandler96 said:
You were one I was referring to about finding actual companies that have actual weighted belts. I like everyone here. I think they're all great. I love when I see you pop in threads giving advice and opinions. I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do or how to be safe. I'm just saying if they're needed, they wouldn't be removeable, and you wouldn't be able to hunt without them. Some companies build them to have a load and some companies make them so you can take them off.
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But as one of the moderators pointed out, the companies making them to take off are usually companies started, owned, and designed by guys with zero professional training for work positioning harnesses and who were basically just regular hunters. Most of us who have professional elevated work training and who have seen a fall or had one ourselves recognize the importance of using leg straps and your waist belt. For reference I don’t just preach this stuff, here is my personal saddle’s leg straps. I use real cobra buckles from Austrialpin which are the industries strongest and best weight rated buckle. On my waist strap I use the ANSI tested and rated Austrialpin cobra buckle which has a higher minimum break strength and yes it’s an ounce heavier. My leg straps are 4,000 lbs webbing and my waist belt is 6,000 webbing. Is it over kill? Sure it probably is, but I couldn’t live with myself if I knew someone died because I built a saddle with removable leg straps or a sub par waist belt and they fell out and died, when they could have maybe bruised their arm and lived instead.
 

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Fl Canopy Stalker said:
But as one of the moderators pointed out, the companies making them to take off are usually companies started, owned, and designed by guys with zero professional training for work positioning harnesses and who were basically just regular hunters. Most of us who have professional elevated work training and who have seen a fall or had one ourselves recognize the importance of using leg straps and your waist belt. For reference I don’t just preach this stuff, here is my personal saddle’s leg straps. I use real cobra buckles from Austrialpin which are the industries strongest and best weight rated buckle. On my waist strap I use the ANSI tested and rated Austrialpin cobra buckle which has a higher minimum break strength and yes it’s an ounce heavier. My leg straps are 4,000 lbs webbing and my waist belt is 6,000 webbing. Is it over kill? Sure it probably is, but I couldn’t live with myself if I knew someone died because I built a saddle with removable leg straps or a sub par waist belt and they fell out and died, when they could have maybe bruised their arm and lived instead.
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Thems be like: Invented the saddle!

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Super-nerds be like, that’s not safe bro.
 
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I’m gonna start another survey thread asking “If we put 100 saddle hunters with decent slack in their tether and 100 saddle hunters with decent slack in their linemans on a stick 10’ high with no leg loops and side hit the bottom of 200 sticks with a sledgehammer, do you think the vibes in the Leg Loop survey thread would change, at least slightly?”

My vote is “yes”. I would bet my HC Mini and One sticks that (1) the crowd sourced answer is yes and (2) following that experiment premium load rated heavily padded leg loops would rise in popularity, maybe the specs we value in a saddle would too.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
No sir OSHA’s maximum allowable fall distance in a work positioning harness or body belt is 24” or less… a FBH has a 6’ lanyard so you’d fall at least 6’ lol
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I just meant I thought you have to have 5 points of “security” on the harness to be allowed to test, at least for treestand harness. 2 shoulders, waist belt, and two leg straps. Obviously the shoulders don’t apply for saddle, which is why (I thought) they were not officially confined by treestand manufacturers assn or whatever it’s called. And why the LW Assassin originally came with a 5pt harness if I’m not mistaken…
Could be wrong about this. Spoke to the guy from HSS like 10+ years ago. And I don’t pretend to be up on the information you gave me, so thanks for that!
 
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