A better emergency lanyard?

An easily recoverable, fully capsizing lanyard knot which is similar in appearance to the 'Solomon Bar' or 'Cobra Lanyard'

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Lanyard
• bracelet
• emergency
• paracord
• knot
• sinnet
• capsizing

[alekSfoxtrot]

no i hear you it generates more force to stop a fall than it does to hang. i don't want it to unzip. i was just trying to make a piece of equipment that would do multiple functions in an emergancy from hooking in for an extraction (roof during a flood), or draging your partner out of a hostile environment when wounded, something small enough i could carry on my carabiner everyday.

[1nf0fr34k]

@alekSfoxtrot ok, in that case I would consider it tactical use. Anything tactical should be considered as risk assumed by the user and the consequences down to that user. I'm hoping I've cautioned enough and my thoughts are having something is better than nothing but ultimately the application is down to you.

[alekSfoxtrot]

Thanks. Yeah the one I'm thinking of will be about 18" to 24" in length (finished product) and I'm sure gonna test it with 200 lb sand bags dropped 10 feet to a sudden jerk stop with this lanyard and a carabiner holding them. If it passes I'll consider using it possibly as fall protection. But not without extensive testing. I also know someone that can test tensile strength.

[1nf0fr34k]

@alekSfoxtrot I may have misunderstood. Are you considering this as a means of storing a length to arrest a fall (i.e. the cord unzips to do so?). There are a lot of other factors here if you are.. 1) heat generated by rapid capsize and it's impact on the structure of the cord. 2) dynamic vs static properties of the cord to absorb shock/jarring (climbing ropes are dynamic). 3) static loading vs accelerating mass and it's impact on the tensile strength. Buy gear specially made for this!

[1nf0fr34k]

@alekSfoxtrot actually the term tensile strength is probably wrong. Lets simplify it. Consider your confidence that a piece of thread may suspend a 1lb weight. Then consider your confidence in that thread holding the weight if you dropped the thread with the thread hanging loose. It's easier for me to illustrate rather than correctly term this.

[puredemoniczick]

I've only heard a couple of things about 550 Paracord, outside of everyone adding it to their survival kits. I usually look for something of the quality you'd find at a heavy workplace, so I'm wondering what you think of this material. I've not been able to get a hold of it so I don't know how it performs in, say, its actual weight bearing, stretching over stressful use, how well it handles sudden tention, or holds knots both wet and dry.

[labrat7357]

Good clip, it explains the process very well.

I have never been into these bracelets they would just annoy me and I believe pose a risk of snagging and possible injuruy, I do not wear rings for the same reason. I have bits of cord and string all over the place in pockets and pouches. Coiled under water bottles and in the bottom of packs. It is a lot more accessable than messing about with bracelets, they are just novelities.

Cordage and line is extremely useful, if you can get to it easily.

[1nf0fr34k]

@1nf0fr34k 1. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

2. Beware of the running ends getting snagged if they aren't secured to lock the loops this cause an inadvertent capsize.

3. If unlocked loops are left and they are insufficient in number to overcome the friction characteristics of particularly slippery cord then it may be likely to fail.

I would trust it myself for many things if I had confidence in the cord used.

[1nf0fr34k]

@alekSfoxtrot The frame section is made of three bight of course at one end it is essentially one bight wheres at the other there are two where the chain starts. If there are several loops in the chain then depending on the friction characteristics of the cord used it should be fairly safe to hold weight suspended between the single loop at the single loop end and BOTH loops at the other. Some SAFETY notes in a moment (out of space)..

[alekSfoxtrot]

Will the mainframe loop hold weight? I.E. if I had to extract a cad off the x zone would this lanyard (a longer version of course) be effective?