leash for belay device?

[builder206]

Do you leash your belay device to your pearbiner? Or, why would you not do so?

[Bug]

I always have.

Well, not always. hat time it ended up too far away for mr to reach it. It was a bummer.

Now I use a reverso and clip it into my parabiner.

[builder206]

I just rigged one from small cord (3 or 4 mm, I dunno) and used it for the 1st time Saturday. It was a bit of a bother. Before that, every time I took the device off my pearbiner I held my breath and was verry careful to hold on to it, but it looks like all I did was trade one kind of grief for another. The length is right but that's the only good thing I can say at this point. Rope evolutions slowed as I worked with the leash in addition to rope, device, pearbiner.

[Rad]

I use one but tie it to a biner on the side or back of my harness (same one w/cleaning tool). That way I can clip it out of the way when not in use and don't have to worry about dropping it.

[high_on_rock]

I didn't think anyone still leashed belay devices since the figure-8 went out of style. Just don't drop it, if you do use a munter hitch.

[builder206]

I didn't think anyone still leashed belay devices since the figure-8 went out of style. Just don't drop it, if you do use a munter hitch.

 

Yeh, I know what to do if I drop the device which is why I don't want to drop the device. But...what's the reference to "figure 8 going out of style?" What are you talking about there? A fig 8 device?---I'm talking about leashing my belay device to my pearbiner.

Edited September 24, 2007 by builder206

[marylou]

I don't want no little piece of string fouling the device. Bad idea.

 

Learn to do a Munter, you oughtta know that one anyway.

[rob]

I don't use a leash. I never remove my device from my HMS biner. My biner is big enough that I can just move the device to the side and clip the rope without actually removing it. I've never really worried about it. Seems a leash would get in the way, but I see lots of people doing it so it must not be too bad.

[catbirdseat]

I used a leash for a short time when I was new to climbing. It was always getting in the way and seemed like a bother. I dispensed with it, and in 9 years of climbing have yet to lose a belay device. The trick is to never take the device off your HMS biner as Rob mentioned.

[Bug]

Yes. I was thinking of the cord I used to have on my stitch plate that just keeps the plate close so you can always reach it.

I have not ever used a Leash for clipping and unclipping. It seems like it would be in the way all the time.

[G-spotter]

Leashes are aid.

[builder206]

My biner is big enough

 

Yeah, my biner is big enough too, Rob! Don't be starting that kind of shit with me, man!

[Bug]

But...what's the reference to "figure 8 going out of style?" What are you talking about there? A fig 8 device?---I'm talking about leashing my belay device to my pearbiner.

 

Fig 8's were used as belay devices for a short time.

At least, it should have been a short time.

We stuck the belay loop (bite) through the small hole and clipped to the rope just like a stitch plate, sort of.

[G-spotter]

Don't forget the Eurostyle sport belay (pre Grigri) with one strand thru in descender mode and one hand holding an unfiltered Gauloise

[spotly]

No leash. Sounds like a pain.

[archenemy]

I don't use a leash. I never remove my device from my HMS biner. My biner is big enough that I can just move the device to the side and clip the rope without actually removing it.

Same here.

[builder206]

OK, got it, lose the leash.

 

When I started climbing we used a hip belay. Why, we even made our own ropes before every climb! Out of hemp...uphill in the snow both ways. It's gotten so easy now.

[high_on_rock]

Never lose the hip belay, it is quick, easy, and perfect for a lot of situations. Just because there is a newer way, don't lose the Old's Cool style!

[rob]

When I started climbing we used a hip belay. Why, we even made our own ropes before every climb! Out of hemp...uphill in the snow both ways. It's gotten so easy now.

 

When you started climbing, had the mountains even formed yet?

[G-spotter]

When I started climbing, the Earth hadn't even formed yet. We had to accrete our own planetesimals.

[JosephH]

All three Reversos I've used over time are drilled and leashed. I also still hip belay a lot. Damn, still uncool after all these years...

[Bug]

I hand over hand like the French.

Why get all tangled up?