How To Make A Swiss Seat Rope Harness

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Utilizing a length of rope to make a field expedient rappelling harness similar to to the seat taught by the military in Air Assault Operations involving rappelling from rotary winged aircraft.With practice the Swiss Seat can be tied in 90 seconds or less.It is a high speed, low drag way to make your own harness for rappelling or extraction.
Metallica's Master of Puppets provides the soundtrack to this video and is solely owned by them,not me,ever.I'm just a dope on a rope...

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Type III or Type IV ...
Type III or Type IV would work,but would be uncomfortable to the point of injury with its small diameter.I would NOT recommend 550 cord.
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THank you sir...I'm ...
THank you sir...I'm working on the fourth floor off a building and I'll need to get down. Will 550 paracord work?
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It is an Australian ...
It is an Australian Army issue of a British Golok.The handle is stamped 1968.I traded a B.D.U. cap and a few Aussie dollars for it back in 1984 during a joint military exercise north of Sydney.Great tool,but I lost the sheath...
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Nice machete, ...
Nice machete,original?
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Thanks,now if you ...
Thanks,now if you have some rope,you have a harness.
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