Saddle safety.

[fbwguy]

Anyone who is worried, I would say do not buy oplux for your tether. That stuff is like dental floss compared to predator or other commonly used ropes lol. That being said, I love it. I think educating yourself on how to spot deficiencies and weak points in your rig is just as important as backing things up. One aspect of my job has drilled that into my head. You inspect your equipment everytime, trust your equipment to do its job, and care for your equipment and it will do the same for you. If there is ever anything in question, replace it. The only piece of gear that I back up is a mechanical ascender. Never trust anything mechanical with your life. Other than that don't skip inspecting your kit. Check your knots, check your lines for flat spots and separation, inspect webbing for cuts, frays, or burns, check the hardware for cracks and separation etc. If you want to back things up and it will make you more comfortable and enable your hunting experience, do it. But also read and know what your looking at.

Can’t emphasize enough, check your equipment, EVERY Time out. I have not had an incident, but once last season after the sun came up and I’d been in the saddle for a while, I glanced down at the end of my tether rope and realized the stopper knot was gone. I have no clue when, or how, but it was no longer present. Easy fix, but made me realize that I had been complacent about my set up. Our lives are in our hands, no one else’s. Check your equipment

 

[SomthingOriginal]

If I had a stick or step fail and was suspended by my tether, I would girth hitch my line mans rope around the tree. Then tie a loop in the rope for my foot to take the weight off of my tether. Lower your tether and sit back down in the saddle, lower the girth hitched line mans rope and inch down the tree that way. It might take me some time to get down, but I would be able to get down safely.

I'm sold. This is a much better idea!

 

[Spence71]

Ok here’s a couple pics of my system. Tethrd rope and prusik/biner. Backup is 8mm rope and 6mm prusik/biner I’m using as a lineman’s belt. Two bridges. Either bridge can be used but the longer one is slightly more comfortable. However, they are set up so there is barely any slack in the backup tether/bridge.

Because there isn’t any slack both tethers stay perfectly in line with each other so I don’t notice the extra ropes. It may look cluttered in the pics but honestly nothing gets in the way. In fact you can barely see the second tether in the pics.

Emrah

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I’d be more worried about climbing barefoot.

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[rutjr]

I don't know what some of you are using for a LB but my Tetherd will not allow me to slide down a tree. It grips like PollyGrip!

 

[Arkhunter18]

If you are worried about suspension trauma, or a backup plan, just throw 2 strap on steps in your pack. This will give you relief and a way down the tree should you get in a bind.

 

[bj139]

I was SRTing up a tree in the woods on Thurday coyote hunting. I didn't have my tether in place. I was just hanging from the SRT rope. I remembered the threads about redundancy and thought I should hook up the tether, so I did. I was hanging with my full weight on the 8mm rope tether and 6mm prusik cord as a test. It was fine.
I was twisting around seeing if I could shoot in all directions and I could. I pointed the crossbow in all directions OK. The single attachment point on the RCH shouldn't be a problem. I am hanging from a Grigri and have the tag end tied down. How could that fail?