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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
Weldabeast said:
Peeps who step thru their saddle to put it on are retarded....change my mind
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I R tarded. Got that nice deluxe from Wood with the fancy buckles. Promptly added a shorter , openable, second bridge that I step through before I put the real waist belt on :tearsofjoy: and for good measure bridge 2 is a purple and white sling :tearsofjoy:
 
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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Thank you for being you. And adding your you to this thread.

 
No, I don’t wear leg straps with my saddle… if I am using a treestand with my tx5 minimalist I will use them.
 
kyler1945 said:
Thank you for being you. And adding your you to this thread.

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Lol I’m tempted to say thanks but I’m cautiously pessimistic that it’s a dig somehow lol….
For what it’s worth I enjoy hearing you provide your philosophical questioning and logic to these threads as well Kyle!!!
 
Plebe said:
Yeah, but the hunt changes substantially from:

Let’s hunt, dad

to

Let’s hunt dad
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Yes sir I always say that proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar are vital. They are the difference between “knowing your sh*t and knowing you’re sh*t! I apologize to the moderators, if I need to change my wording, I will….
 
AttackMode said:
Off topic...how do you like the minimalist?
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The 2.0 I like. It has much larger lineman’s loops than the 1.0… it’s moderately comfortable. Only thing I am not a huge fan of and the same goes for the Lonestar 2.0 is the scaffold knot on the one side bridge loop. It absolutely sucks to loosen up to adjust the position of the bridge.
 
neonomad said:
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.
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My vote is yes also… I’m pretty scared of being one of the 100 test dummies for those results though lol
 
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