Arc'teryx 395A Harness Break Test! How strong is the most expensive harness highliners use?

How strong is the most expensive harness? Find out on this episode of How Not to Highline. Yeah Matty! Hi I'm Ryan Jinks and this is Lorenzo DiMiro and he has donated the most expensive harness that highliners buy. The Arc'teryx Blue Harness. Not sure actually what it's called. The 395A. And we're gonna find out how strong the belay loop is and how strong the leg loops are and the waist belt and we're just gonna destroy this thing here on Slack Snap. How old is this Lorenzo? I got this harness about three years ago maybe three and a half. So ancient in the highlining world and the reason it's being donated is because this has broken. The leg look like this. So you can see where the belay loop is here and you can see this orange webbing that's an indicator that it is worn out. So we're gonna find out how worn out. Pretty worn out. What have you done in this thing man? You know if you never fall it wouldn't wear out right? Why are you climbing? Why are you cheating on slacklining? I don't know. We're about to do this Lorenzo. Are you are you having any regrets? Not as many regrets as I would have if I kept using it. Ah that's good. Sample 520. Oh what's that? Less than a carabiner. What the hell? 19.18 kilonewtons. 4,400 pounds of force. Where did our belay loop go? Stitching is fine. It just basically broke where the soft shackle connected to it. Soft shackles must be dangerous. Soft shackle on the harness testing a gear loop. Wow it said zero kilonewtons but we got 1.5. Wow you can almost whip on that. 522. How are you feeling Lorenzo? Grateful for the long journey we've been on. Four years. Did you learn how to highline on this? No. We put it directly on the shackle here for a bend radius because the belt is so fat but we soft shackled this side because we love soft shackles. It's not double backed because it's auto locking. This is gonna be funny but my first highline solo was in this harness. How's that work? Did you not know how free soloing works? I just didn't tie in but I felt comfortable. I could light squeeze here. All right if you're gonna free solo make it worth it and don't wear a harness. Say what? That was cool. That was cool. You want to put it back together? Yeah you got tape? Yeah oh we could sew it. If we use the fiber reinforced tape. So that started so it started to slip and then broke. That didn't break. Well clearly I mean this is gonna break first. So these these kind of got bent a little. It would be interesting to see if we can connect two individual webbings together with a contraption like this. How can we break this? Oh like that. Should we do that? Fun fact 13.44 is only a two to one safety ratio because on a highline on a whip or a rope swing you get six kilonewtons. Not always on the leash but at least on a rope swing you can and that comes off at 13.44. Sample 523. We are pulling the master point of the waist loop apart. It's got two bar tacks visible? No there's three there. It's like chewing your skin up on a cuticle. I don't think we're getting anywhere right now. I was watching the dyno the whole time it stayed at 3.3 once it started to break. Kyle you're so strong. What's inside of these things man? Nothing. No it's not. No it's not. It's their claim to fame. It's the diamond pattern woven dyneema. Claim to fame. Three bar tacks broke at 3.3 kilonewtons. Not that you ever pull it that way but no I guess we do. No we don't. No you don't. Okay this isn't science. Sorry guys. Our final test of Lorenzo's harness leg loops both of them on the big shackle and then the loop that you tie your figure eight to right here. Do you know why we have two dynos in case anybody was wondering? In case you forget to turn on peak hold when you break expensive harnesses. But luckily we have two dynos. 2,750 pounds of force is not very much. So this is my harness and it's nice to know now that this breaks at 19 kilonewtons. It breaks at 13 kilonewtons and my leg loops break at 12 kilonewtons. Now of course when you tie in you're tying into the waist belt and the leg loops so technically those would be combined and your back would break before this would. So this is all still safe enough but it is funny that each of these components including the belay loop that you're clipping a carabiner to to belay people with breaks lower than the carabiner. Now when you whip on a high line you usually get between one and two kilonewtons so the safety ratio is plenty especially because you are connecting to your waist and leg loops independently when you tie your figure eight in. Obviously this is safe enough or they wouldn't sell it and I do like the Arctaric harness because it is fairly comfortable if you're not going to be sitting in it in a long period of time and in high lining you're not you know unless you really suck in your harness a lot and it's really nice to be able to walk with something so minimal. So thank you Lorenzo for donating your harness for science and Arctaric did not sponsor this episode whatsoever it's just I know a lot of us as highliners have Arctaric harnesses so this seemed to be pretty relevant to us. Now if you are a climber and stumbled upon this episode and are interested in highlining in slacklining how not to highline this channel has over 100 episodes on things you can learn about rigging highlines and slackademics.com is everything else on the internet combined into that website so you can learn anything you want about our sport. Sometimes things break lower than you think therefore you shouldn't highline. Hey thanks for watching but don't be an idiot and try highlining your first time without going with somebody who knows what they're doing. There are too many slackliners today to try to learn this stuff on your own. 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