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Help me! and I know this should be strictly on gear thread but does anyone know of a harness that goes up to 46 inch waist?

Not for me BTW.

I ordered a harness for a mate (he's big lad)for xmas and its arrived and was size large but its never gonna fit him and the others I've found are all the same! I found a Troll ABS Granite but it looks like crap so don't reccommend it. Preferably black or dark colored.

Anyone got any ideas? Sensible ones?

Thanks in anticipation.

In reply to Jo:
Have you looked at the the Petzl Tetrax
www.petzl.com
padded waist, up to 49.2 in size 2.
dunno were you'd get it from tho

In reply to Dan:

Thanks Dan. Have emailed Lyon Equip to see if they have one (said so on Petzl site). Fingers crossed.

Anyone else got any suggestions?

In reply to Jo: An exercise video and some slimming shakes?

In reply to Jo: after you've got him his harness, you might want to invest in some heavy duty rope.......say 16mm???

In reply to Jo: or maybe Geri Yoga ?(now there's a real winner!)

In reply to Jo: I sqeezed into a bod alpine with a 42/44 waist, My concerns were with tipping upside down and falling out of it, a chest harness?

In reply to Jo:

Try Rigblast in Dyce, or Asco in Altens, or one of the offshore rope access, or equipment supply companies. I know loads of oil workers with 46 inch waists! Someone out there should supply them.

Regards

John

In reply to Jo:

46" inch waist who's going to belay him? an elephant?

just thinking of safety 'sall

In reply to sutty:

Dare one enquire what your unsqueezed waist measurement would be?

G

A svelte 34".

In reply to Graham: Zoo suppliers have this harness thing for lifting Elephants with cranes. Should do the trick, try London Zoo!

In reply to John:

Bugger.....not ASCO in Altens.....I should've said ARCO in Altens.

John

In reply to John: Not Tesco in Athens then?

In reply to Jo: I know its getting tedious everyone taking the pss out of your mate, but how about making him some pies? I think he's eaten them all.

In reply to Al Evans:

The best one in years, keep it up.

In reply to Jo:
I think you should be looking for the SMALLEST harness you can find:

Between posting on "Gear" and posting here (1 minute later)your guy has lost an inch of his waist - with 22days 'til Christmas he'll be a mere 23" , falling out of everything and on the front page of Slimmers World!

In reply to Al Evans: Al?
Shouldn't that be ARSE in Athens???
*GRINS*

Jo. I have a 44" CHEST. I don't even want to THINK about anyone who has a 46" WAIST. Should they be allowed to leave the gound? Think of the potential energy involved, when they're just 50 feet off the floor. You could cause MAJOR route damage, in the ensuing earthquake, if they did deck out.
Plus, the logistics of getting the elephant to the crag, to act as his belay will be HUGE!


Tim, the Grey.

In reply to Graham: My waist size was 32/34 till 5 years ago when my wife became wheelchair bound. it then gradually expanded to a 44 at which I said enough and have started on the long road back. I have lost a stoneand a half in the last six months but I don't think I will ever get back to 10.5 stone as I was at my peak.
staying in a house looking after someone 24 hours a day and forgetting to look after yourself is too easy to do.

In reply to Tim, the Grey one.....: No its ok Tim, you just carry the Elephant in one of those harnesses attatched to a mobile crane.

In reply to sutty:

Erm, great. How small do I feel now?

On a more positive note, I can heartily recommend a good dose of food poisoning.

G

In reply to sutty: Ignoore all these tosser's have fun climbing - petzl will make harness to order, just give em a call, sorry don't have there no.

In reply to Baz:

I have seen the DMM Alpine harnesses with extra long waist and leg loop straps. Again give them a call and see what they can do?

Also, though I don't know offhand exactly how large it'll go, I the Petzl adult full body harness suits a lot of larger sized people far better than a sit harness does. I have used this in lots of situations where I have not been happy that a sit harness alone would be safe and where a separate chest harness was inappropriate.

HTH

Gavin

Bloody hell!

Ehm right...HARNESS IS NOT FOR ME!

I have 24 1/2 inch waist.

My freind has the big waist. He's 6ft 2 and 15 stone (all gut, rest is fine)and has recently (well in the past 18 months) taken up hill walking and now this year will be his first serious winter walking season, hence the harness for 'scary bits' blah blah blah. he can't climb cos he has a dodgy lknee, well certainly not over a Mod/Diff anyway. He has lost weight since he started walking but only gets out maybe once a fortnight on big walks, and toodles round the village every other night (lifestyle, commitments can't do anything about it). Yes, he is a big bloke but he's dedicated to becoming fitter and healthier so no more jokes about elephants please!

Thanks for all the serious suggestions! I will look into them and hopefully will get him sorted with a decent harness for xmas.

In reply to Jo:

The DMM Alpine would seem a sensible choice for that kind of stuff if it fits. According to their website (www.dmmwales.com), it fits 17inch waist to 46 inch waist. Mind you, when you look at the technical data, the 'normal' fits 20 inch to 38 inch (dunno what happened to the 17 inch?), and you need the larger size to go up to 46 inch waist.

Dunno if that's going to have enough spare to fit on over winter clothes, though?

In reply to Jo:
I bought a Camp Sherpa light in size large last year. I'm 16st+, waist 38" and it was far too big for me. With the medium it's just about small enough, so the large would definitely fit your friend I think. Don't know where you can buy them, I bought mine in Decathlon in France.
Hope it helps,
Dean.

:*(

i hate you all

In reply to jo's large waisted friend: Hey i is nice! you r what u r, If we all looked the same the world would be an extremly dull place.

In reply to Jo: Troll 'RAM' (rescue and mountaineering) Harness has an 'extra large' option, it'll easily cope with 46"

In reply to Graham: No probs, I know I am overweight as does vdiff dave. When we set out climbing it was on a 60m rope that is now 70m

In reply to Graham: no problem, takes a while to get your head round it but now i am regaining my life and so is my wife.

In reply to jo's large waisted friend:

Oi! stop impersonating my freind!

In reply to Jo: I love the double spelling of friend in the last posting. Mainly because its the sort of thing I do.

In reply to Al Evans:

I'm going to have to enable my spell checker aren't I?


To the person who suggested the petzl one: BTW I emailed Lyon Eqip and they aren't there any more. Mail returned. No petzl big job leads now!

In reply to Jo:

christ dont believe it i actually have some form of climbing advice....cough cough splutter.

seriously if you cant find a suitable harness, you can use slings to make a fairly comfortable harness. now wouldnt want to take a whipper in one but for the likes of a couple of hours of top roping etc etc they are fine and ive used em once or twice. a book like manula of modern rope tech' has like a billion ways to make one (ok exagerrated but its got a few)

now must go cleanse myself from the foul disgust of writing something about a climbing. i feel all violated and stuff

In reply to Jo:

Jo, I know you said you didn't like the look of the Troll granite, but for your mate it's got a couple of real advantages

1. simple to use
2. No padding, which is a plus if he's only going to use it occasionally as it will fit much better in the bottom of a rucsac

I see - we're all politically correct when it comes to gays, the mentally ill, the french (they can't help it - he he) - but when it comes to someone being overweight then it's OK to take the piss. Nice.

In reply to JonC:

Humourless gits get stereotyped here as well Jon.

:-P

G

In reply to Graham:

Quite.

How do they secure those balls they use to demolish buildings?

In reply to Graham:

I'm sure that Jo's friend would have been in hysterics if all that was said to his face.

I usually think this board is pretty funny but was a bit shocked by the lack of thought shown by you lot.

Sorry if you think that makes me boring, well, I'm sorry for you that is.

ps: I'm sick so I'm allowed to be bad tempered

In reply to Dave Garnett:

at least we agree on one thing, Septumania is a grand day out

In reply to Dave Garnett: Stand in front of one and get a close look dave, think they have a loop welded on top/side/bottom, think about it.

In reply to JonC:

Poo.

And I had nothing to say about Jo's friend.

G

In reply to Graham:

sorry for over-reaction - to you anyway

In reply to JonC:



G

In reply to JonC:
I think most people overweight know they are and for most of them it is in their own hands.
However people who have to take steroids can gain weight at an alarming rate, one person who was in hospital at the same time as my wife gained 3 stone in 2 months, he was on hospital food all that time so he was being monitored.

There seems to be other sorts of discrimination, see new thread.

In reply to sutty:

????

G

In reply to Graham:

Jings! This all got a bit serious didn't it?

Thanks for the suggestion about slings....but its mainly for wnter walking and from past experience (when i was poor and unloved) trying to keep an array of slings from falling round your ankle while gullying is a bit difficult. I do use that on my kids though when we let em loose on our homemade wall.

Yup, I think it might have to be the Troll one guys. Yuk it may be but its the only one a)that fits and b)that doesn't cost the earth. Well well, as I tell him (and keep trying to convince myself) appearance doen't matter...so i'be bought hij a Berghaus fleece too

Thank you all for your help. It was, as usual, much appreciated.

Jon...hope u feel better soon!

In reply to Jo:

It wasn't me Miss.



G

In reply to Miss:

And I didn't say "Poo", honest, I didn't.

G

In reply to JonC and Sutty:

Come on guys. Nobody's making fun of the disabled or of Cushing's syndrome, but I do reserve the right to mildly take the piss out of the rotund, if only for their own good. In my experience they can take it. Ho Ho Ho!

Ah, Septumania. Bliss. I must get back to Eldorado. But for now I'll have to make do with the granite slabs at Paarl and Lion's Head.

Shit, I've gone and mentioned it AGAIN!

In reply to Dave Garnett: Any more comments and I will not be visiting your house on christmas eve with that new axe and crampons you want. I will just have to give them to Jo.

I will also make sure by bad elves make you slip off every boulder your mate gets up making you look a prat.

see god, don't need your help to bring people down.

In reply to santa:

Oi! get off my sledge!

In reply to Jo:

yes, it was my fault - sorry teach - feeling slightly better now

anyone sacrificing a climbing weekend to go to the indoor climbing compy thingy at Brum? As i feel too shite to think about heading for the hills and live about 3 minutes away from the NIA, i think i may well pop along. After all, I'm sure there's some new gear/books I could do with buying (got a North Farce duvet jacket here for about £50 last time)...

In reply to Jo: so much for the surprise element.................the large waisted one now knows all about his gift.........

In reply to Jo: tractor tire inner tube...

In reply to large waisted friend:ignore the lot of them.They are fools!

In reply to jo's large waisted friend:

On a serious point R U really interested in climbing? Dont you find it difficult?

In reply to Peter K: What has the difficulty got to do with it? I sometimes have difficulty walking never mind climbing and other days I can do easy vs routes.
All depends on the weather and if I am injured.

Don't you find climbing difficult? Ask John Dunne or Adam Lincoln if he does, I think it is a matter of degree.