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Josh Allred
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Apr 15, 2014
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Salt Lake City, UT
· Joined Mar 2011
· Points: 161
Torn harness Tore my harness yesterday in an OW. Planning on retiring it. Am I overreacting?
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Josh Allred
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Apr 15, 2014
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Salt Lake City, UT
· Joined Mar 2011
· Points: 161
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Jamespio Piotrowski
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Apr 15, 2014
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Sep 2013
· Points: 5
You might be overreacting, but for $50, I'd overreact, too.
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Mark Griffin
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Apr 15, 2014
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Boulder, CO
· Joined Apr 2006
· Points: 95
On the leg loop? I wouldn't worry.
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redlude97
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Apr 15, 2014
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jun 2010
· Points: 5
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Max Forbes
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Apr 15, 2014
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Colorado
· Joined Jan 2014
· Points: 108
When in doubt retire it, with that being said one leg loop and one belt would hold in theory f that one were to fail... I doubt you'd run into an issue. Anyways, gearx.com has 20% off climbing gear right now if your looking to replace.
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Matt N
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Apr 15, 2014
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Oct 2010
· Points: 415
That shouldn't kill you - but if you're worried, keep it as a gym or backup use only.
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Ryan Nevius
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Apr 15, 2014
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Perchtoldsdorf, AT
· Joined Dec 2010
· Points: 1,837
It's the exterior fabric on a leg loop. Not a problem.
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b hof
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Apr 15, 2014
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Fort Collins, CO
· Joined Mar 2011
· Points: 456
No way I would retire that, duct tape and its good to go!
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Robert Cort
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Apr 15, 2014
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Oct 2009
· Points: 800
Josh Allred wrote: Tore my harness yesterday in an OW. Planning on retiring it. Am I overreacting? Tear is in non-structural component. If you have money to burn, replace it. Otherwise continue climbing. P.S. if you're gonna climb off-widths, and replace every scuffed or minor tear, you're gonna go broke.
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mitchy B
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Apr 16, 2014
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nunya gotdamn business.
· Joined Aug 2009
· Points: 0
My Misty Mountain harness woulda scratched the rock.
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Jonathan Dull
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Apr 16, 2014
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Boone, NC
· Joined Mar 2012
· Points: 415
mitchy wrote:My Misty Mountain harness woulda scratched the rock. Haha, beat me to it! Retire and buy a Misty!
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Abram Herman
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Apr 16, 2014
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Grand Junction, CO
· Joined May 2009
· Points: 20
If it's on the leg loop, you're fine. Real o-dubbers use swami belts, anyway. ;-)
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Ryan Williams
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Apr 16, 2014
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London (sort of)
· Joined May 2009
· Points: 1,245
Pretty sure I've seen a video of someone falling out of an offwidth in IC and breaking their leploop. They were fine. But I guess if you need a reason to spend money...
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Tom-onator
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Apr 17, 2014
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trollfreesociety
· Joined Feb 2010
· Points: 790
Smear a little Shoe Goo or clear silicone over the damaged area. This will keep the material from fraying further. Aaaaaand... You won't have have a stringy sticky mess to deal with once the duct tape fabric starts to delaminate from the adhesive.
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David Gibbs
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Apr 17, 2014
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Ottawa, ON
· Joined Aug 2010
· Points: 2
johnnyrig wrote:Well if its just cosmetic, no worries. Curious though, how other people think if one leg loop breaks the other will hold you... Hows that gona work? Um... Swami-belts used to hold people with no leg loops. As I understand it, the waist-belt is the primary part of the harness for actually catching you in a fall. The leg loops do a couple of things, the most important is keeping the waist-belt well position under load -- so it doesn't ride up and crush the rib cage, for example. They also distribute the load while sitting/hanging in the harness, tending to make it more comfortable for hanging or semi-hanging belays. If one leg loop breaks, the harness will still be kept (mostly) in position by the other leg loop. Of course, it won't be all that comfortable any more. But, that question is (mostly) irrelevant to this particular question -- the damage to the harness appears to be completely to the cosmetic (non-load-bearing) parts of it, rather than to the actual strength-supplying webbing. For the OP -- if the damage is, actually (as appears) to just the cosmetic/comfort parts of the harness, rather than the strength-supplying webbing, this doesn't need replacing. It is worth a careful examination (hard for anyone to do across the internet) to make sure that is the case, but it should be obvious what is/is not load-bearing in the harness.
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matt c.
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Apr 17, 2014
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Nov 2009
· Points: 155
the scrapped up padding is not load bearing. so it's fine. if you decide to retire it, send it to me. I'll pay the shipping :)
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Rockbanned brett
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Apr 17, 2014
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Plattsburgh, Ny
· Joined Dec 2011
· Points: 215
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