TT:
My rebar lanyard http://store.pksafety.net/fi10tirela.html arrived for
Father's Day (How did they know?). I like it a lot. The straps are sewn
onto the various mechanical clamps with heavy and many stiches. The main
part of the gorilla hooks and the center snaphook are made from forged
steel. The keepers and safety releases look like stamped steel. The spec
sheet included with the lanyard says the coating is zinc plating. The parts
are held together with what look like fairly substantial rivets. Sorry, I
can't tell what the rivet material is, so <fairly substantial> will have to
do.
The Y-tails are each about four and a half feet long. The folded,
shock-absorbing portion (a self-contained element that is attached to the
common point of the two gorilla hook lanyards) is held together with
transparent (polyethylene?) heat-shrink tubing. This element is shown in
the product photo with the model's name, FIRST, printed on it.
Overall length of the lanyard before elongation is about six feet, four
inches. This means that I can't reach high enough when on the tower to
provide zero slack in the lanyard. I'll have to climb a couple of feet to
clip in, then descend to the work area. A fall would extend the total
length another three and a half feet. I would have preferred a shorter
lanyard length, but I can <live> with it as is.
For a total price of less than $100 including shipping, I now have a
professional, shock-absorbing lanyard that is only a few bucks more costly
than a home-made set of rope lanyards with purchased gorilla hooks.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
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