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Prussic while abseiling - above or below device? 1-Aug-2012 At 10:41:06 AM muki

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On 1/08/2012 kieranl wrote:
>On 1/08/2012 davidn wrote:
>>
>>Is this actually possible with most harnesses? I thought most had the
>>big flap of stitched back webbing at the end which would be almost impossible
>>to suck through the clips.
>I have no personal knowledge of this, just found the link and thought
>it worth posting. You will note that the harness shown in the blog has
>the ends of the webbing stitched back. However this is a convenience to
>keep the buckles threaded, not load-bearing. It wouldn't make it "impossible"
>for the end of webbing to be pulled back through the clips.

In the scenario given where the leg loop comes loose, it is not receiving "load" it is just being pulled upwards by the prusik, the bulk of the "load" is still being held by the harness waist loops via the belay loop and decender, the prusik then jambs into the decender because the leg loop has elongated.
the construction of my harness is the same as the example given of self locking buckles that are cinched tight by pulling, they have a fold in the webbing at the end that is stitched with a bar tack !, these bar tacks are what holds the harness & belay loop together, and are fully rated to not only hold a load, but also hold the many repeated shock loads of a falling climber.