Singing Rock chest harness

[Amazingracer]

Sorry Tim. Jansen asked and I obliged. Also seems to be more to that story than i originally was told. And I wasnt trying to throw GGG under the bus either.

Carry on.

[Jeff Bartlett]

Come on now guys, I'm calling BS here. The fact that I would rather buy a product than make it myself is not really cause for "surprise" or any "blame".

Yep. I'd be happy to make my own Petzl Serpentine too, if only I had a bar-tacker and one of those patented Petzl metal buckles that work a zillion times better than the nylon alternatives!

Even so, GGG has chosen to discontinue the use of this buckle.

I noticed this when a friend recently purchased a GGG footloop (for frogging); his old single footloop had the sharp-edge buckle and the new double footloop didn't. The new buckle is definitely a better design. "Idiot-proof," if you will.

[NZcaver]

Yep. I'd be happy to make my own Petzl Serpentine too, if only I had a bar-tacker and one of those patented Petzl metal buckles that work a zillion times better than the nylon alternatives!

From previous experience, I've found a pair of standard metal D-rings also work quite well for adjusting the length of 25mm webbing chest harnesses.

[Kuzgun]

Im using webbing figure of eight made with edelrid tube perlon but AV Spelshoulder can be more comfortable. It looks great

[fuzzy-hair-man]

Try this:http://www.aventureverticale.com/en/caving/accessory-avsp12.html


Spelshoulder AVSP12 15€

I use a chest harness very similar to the AV one above and I find it the best harness I've used, I've previously tried the Torse (dug into my shoulders too much when tight and flopped about when not) a homemade version of the Serpentine which took WAY too long to do up and undo even with the metal D rings. The one that really caught my attention was the Garma (below) after reading about it in Vertical and I thought about trying to copy it then thought it might compress my chest and restrict arm movement more than a figure 8 harness, I also didn't like the idea of having a carabiner connecting up the harness in front sitting on my sternum as I thought it'd probably hurt going through squeezes so I put the bicycle toe clip idea onto a figure 8 harness and it's the duck's nuts. (very good) The figure 8 also doesn't need the carabiner to clip it together (I'm not sure how much the Garma needs it either?)

Oh I also had a version of the Sperpentine that I could adjust much faster and easier than the usual variety it was made using a halter square (sits at the side of the horse's muzzle on a halter) this meant you had 2 adjustment buckles to adjust more quickly and easily, but I like the figure 8 harness much more.