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| taazzukcb Member Since: 30 Aug 2013 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 663   
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Easiest is to make some up. I looked around for a while for my old 90 and nothing really turned up. Not that was A) Available or B) Cost effective!
With a bit of ingenuity you could make a smart set-up very easily! In terms of the harnesses ... I love the look and use of Harnesses. I have a 6-Points sat in the shed. However I soon came to the decision that fitting them with no roll cage is a MAJOR risk in my opinion. The 'roll over strength' of a Defender is almost as good as trying to save yourself with mashed potato. In the event of a roll over with no cage, the only chance of not loosing your head or doing some major damage to yourself is to dive for the floor or hope you almost fall sideways. Buckets + Harnesses will hold you rigid. That's the point (they'd be bad quality or badly fitted if they didn't). But then you'll have a few seconds of watching to roof cave in towards you before it's most likely lights out. If you have a roll cage / bar, then carry on and ignore me  . Just trying to watch out for a fellow Landy owner. |
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21st Aug 2014 4:10pm |
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| uncas Member Since: 22 Nov 2012 Location: Wentworth near Rotherham Posts: 340
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Have you ever tried to get out of an inertia reel seat belt whilst the vehicle is laying on its side. I've rolled two motors and am not planning on putting another one on either it's side or roof the other incidents weren't planned either once on a pay to play site and the last one on the M1 my wife told everyone that she was training to be a stunt woman.
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21st Aug 2014 4:27pm |
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| rallysteve Member Since: 10 Feb 2014 Location: Cumbria Posts: 2200 
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Which is exactly why you should have a glass hammer/belt cutter within reach
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21st Aug 2014 4:38pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971 
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If you're going to have that sort of thing within reach, can I suggest the ResQMe.
I've tested the glass breaker and the seatbelt cutter on that and other similar tools (plus various "rescue" knives, normal plain edged and serrated knives) and the ResQMe was by far the quickest and easiest to use. |
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21st Aug 2014 4:44pm |
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| uncas Member Since: 22 Nov 2012 Location: Wentworth near Rotherham Posts: 340
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I do but in the first instance I needed to drive the Landcruiser home from Weardale the Disco was a we bit more damaged and was transported home cutting the belt means that you can't legally drive the vehicle on a public highway.
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21st Aug 2014 4:56pm |
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| taazzukcb Member Since: 30 Aug 2013 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 663
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Uncas, I have indeed been in similar instances with both an Inertia and 6-Point. The latter being a marshalled event with full internal cage mind.
But with 'normal' vehicles, they have at least some roll over protection built into the fame. The point I was making is that even just a gentle roll onto the roof of a Defender can flatten the pillars and roof completely down. They have no built in protection in the slightest! I know you dont plan to, neither do I. In most other cars I'd agree about the Harnesses quite happily. It's just the Defender is a completely different ball game. And gentle roll will crush the roof down flat as it's can't take it's own weight. That's where I'd much prefer the ability to move or fall sideways. There was a video on here recently showing just how weak the roof is, but that also had a roof rack taking some of the blow. There's some pics around showing simple roll overs where the roof was brought down to the same height as the bottom of the side windows. In a harness, you'd of been toast. That or 2 foot shorter! Purley objective this is mind, so please don't take anything to heart. It just worries me people using them in 'Fenders with no roll-over protection. Even with all the best intentions! |
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21st Aug 2014 5:36pm |
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