26% Off Outdoor Survival Bracelet with Stainless Steel Shackle for $3.56 + Free Shipping
This is a new released item.
Bracelet length: 198mm
Bracelet width: 22mm
Bearable strength: not more than 100kg
In an emergency situation, you can unravel the bracelet and deploy the para-cord for use.
Nah, this is only meant for those who survive on a shoe-string.
pretty cool. does it show you how to wrap it up again o.O
"In an emergency situation, you can unravel the bracelet and deploy the paracord for use"
Is it just me or do others also find it hard to imagine abseiling down a cliff-face to safety using an unraveled $3.56 cord?
I find it hard to imagine most ozb folk abseiling at all.
You'd be surprised how far a person will go for a bargain!
What about to pick up the 99 Hungry Jacks Scoopons that flew away and landed at the bottom of the canyon?
Or add a magnet to the shackle to retrieve coins from drains and wishing wells.
In what country can you pick up coins with a magnet? It doesn't work with Australian currency.
i would sure as hell find out how long is that rope before abseiling anywhere!! LOL
Aren't you better off falling (X-0.3)m than X metres?
lol:
super strength military spec paracord….Bearable strength: not more than 100kg
maybe is meant to be use as a garotte, not for abseiling. Maybe it'd make a nice clothes line if you went camping.
Well, technically it says;
up to super strength military spec paracord
Added emphasis.
But yes, it does seem entirely useless. Personally, I'd feel stupider for wearing it..
This is just a cheap knock-off of the Bear Grylls paracord bracelet.
Which actually does kick ass.
Capacity of 550lbs (~220 Kgs)
No way I'm gonna buy 1 until I see Bear Ghrylls abseiling down a 50m cliff face on Man vs Wild
Chuck Norris doesn't have one
No offence but the blatant rip off of genuine survival straps images on your page is a joke your product is inferior and advertising it to the same standard as a genuine product is dangerous.
http://www.survivalstraps.com/
I often do multi day hiking trips in the mountains and have several of these.
If anyone is buying one of these fake ones its nothing more than a gay looking bracelet buy a real one if you want genuine military spec paracord
If anyone is buying one of these fake ones its nothing more than a gay looking bracelet buy a real one if you want genuine military spec paracord
That still won't solve the "gay looking bracelet" dilemma…..
I seriously have to question why you have them? The only logical use I can think of is to use for a tourniquet .. Anything else and you should have some real rope in your backpack, as in, more than a "few feet" of rope.
I find the pack can be quite full and wearing items is handy I actually own the survival straps belt so that's significantly more rope
Plenty of uses you could simply google uses for rope but I think the advantage is mainly for when you can't always have a backpack full of everything
But I've used one before to secure a broken pack and attach items to the exterior (For which they replaced it free of charge :) )
Haha one of the links in the stories section
"…Girls soccer team scores big for soldiers!"
Well, uh…hmmm
the cord usually used in things (don't know about item in OP) like this has many strands of thinner line in a sheath, so essentially you would get ~7 times the length of the original. Although these strands are weaker they can be useful for many things.
Not sure how it going to help you survive getting your "head punched in" when your mates see you wearing such a "cool" bracelet.
But I suppose that really depends on what sort of "mates" you hang around with?
sounds like you live on the Gold Coast (or similar) - don't worry, people aren't like that everywhere :)
how long is the para cord when unwound?
yeah, it is a little awkward for the bracelet. As a bracelet, it is not pleasing to the eye enough; however, as a survival rope, it is not practical enough. If there are more details about how to recover it back from a rope to the bracelet, I may consider it (just for fun).
It looks like the "wear it, unravel it, survive it" comes originally from the survival straps website.
Its been reordered from the original phrase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNgutV3i7Uc
Can you say copyright infringement OP?
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong but it does appear to be the case
Oh and sorry for the youtube link - it was the best evidence I could find!
the ad itself .. mm…
What sort of "survival" rope cant carry more than 100kg? This is obviously a gimmick and could cost an OzB'er their life!
just out of interest, I had a look at the 'customer stories' section on the survival straps site…. I had assumed it would be filled with great tales of survival, life in great peril, kind of stuff. In reality there's probably 2 or 3 stories where life and limb were supposedly in danger…… The rest is about replacing shoelaces and tying things on to the back of cars…..
Survival Bracelet Saves a Wedding
This past weekend I was in one of my best friends wedding. As you know it is up to the groomsmen to tie the cans to the back of the newlyweds vehicle. Getting ahold of some cans was no problem at all but no one seemed to have any string to attach them to. After looking around for a while with no string to show for it I decided that I had my SurvivalStrap on and that it was made up of 15 feet or so of cord. I thought it would be plenty enough to get the job done. Thand SurvivalStraps for a great product! I will be ordering another one so that I am always ready to tackle any situation, emergency or not!
Not really a survival situation…. I would have thought they might have come up with some better stories really
This is obviously a gimmick
You got that right….
The company do seem to have done a good job in aligning their product with the military/emergency services…. People seem to buy them to wear 'in honour' of relatives in those particular services……
Good marketing for what is essentially a long piece of strong string
I've got a ring that shackles me to a ball & chain…is that similar??? :p