Safety Tether

[Dan Lehman]

Originally Posted by afw

The commercial safety tethers seem always to be made of webbing, with
about 6000 lb. breaking strength. I am thinking of making some tethers out
of 1/2-inch three-strand nylon, which has about the same breaking strength.
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The tethers will be double legged, with one leg being 3 feet long and the other six.
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The rope will pass through the attachment eye on the snap shackle.
Instead of using a splice, I am thinking of seizing the bight of rope together
at the shackle. /.../

Alternatively, for greater flexibility in positioning the harness attachment point,
and even the use of the device, one might fix the harness snap into some hi-mod
7-9mm "Prusik" cord and attach to the half-inch tether with a Prusik Hitch.

--dl*
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