ORIGINAL: Windwalker7

I WANT YOU GUYS TO TRY THIS


Take your safety belt and put it around your waist as you would wear it while hunting.


Now find a tree in your yard. Stand beside it and strap the other end as high around the trunk of the tree as you can.

Now, gradually bend your knees and allow your full weight to hang from the belt.


If this doesn't convince you to buy a fullbody harness, nothing will.

IT HURTS!

Now just imagine falling and coming to the end of that belt with a sudden stop.

I've read an article in a hunting magazine a while back ( can't remember which one) that guys have been seriously hurt or killedby belts. Hanging upside down, broken ribs, punctured lungs, torn diaphram, air knocked out of them and sufficated, etc...

Even OSHA does not approve of a saftey belt anymore. They require a full body harness because of the issues I stated above.

Try hanging from your belt in the yard.I used a belt for years until a fellow hunter told me to try this. I ordered a full harness that day.