Getting in to a Hog Harness

[ACR]

Hey folks sorry for sounding like a noob...but...

I'm strongly considering picking up a hard backplate and wing my only concern is how easy or difficult is it to don/doff the gear with a basic webbing harness? It seems like it may be a struggle. I'm tall, so long arms.

I want to switch over to the BP/Wing setup as it just seems like a more efficient configuration but I don't want to spend a hour on shore (or boat) trying to get the thing on or off.

Thanks!

 

[JeffG]

I can get in my harness faster than people getting into their jacket BC's. If someone is having trouble getting in, more often than not, their harness is too tight.

 

[**Scuba_Steve**]

Im short so I cant help you with the arms thing but. I am usually geared and ready to go before everyone else.

On a boat, I sit on the crotch strap, put my arms through the harness, pull the crotch strap up, pass the waist harness webbing through the strap and then into the buckle.

 

[TSandM]

Like a lot of other things, it's a matter of technique. If you get the harness adjusted correctly, then it's quite easy to get into. I do one arm (the left) and then put the wrist through the other side, and hook my elbow under the strap and push it through. It's easier if you either do it before you put on your gauges (assuming you are using wrist gauges) or turn them to the inside of your arm so they don't catch on the harness.

Getting OUT is a little bit more of a project, but once you master the chicken-wing elbow technique, it's not hard, either.

And neither getting in nor getting out is at all difficult in a wetsuit. What makes it a challenge where we dive is catching on the drysuit fabric, the drysuit dump valve, and the dry glove rings

 

[do it easy]

I think it's mostly technique-

You put your left arm in
you put your left arm out
you do the hokey pokey and you shake it all about.

You put your right elbow in
you put your right elbow out,
you do the hokey pokey and you shake it all about.

The trick is to start with the hokey pokey and then finish with the chicken dance- just like any good suburban wedding now-a-days.

If you have trouble getting your arms in, put one arm in, and then the other elbow.

Out is much easier.

 

[JeffG]

I think it's mostly technique-

You put your left arm in
you put your left arm out
you do the hokey pokey and you shake it all about.

You put your right elbow in
you put your right elbow out,
you do the hokey pokey and you shake it all about.

The trick is to start with the hokey pokey and then finish with the chicken dance- just like any good suburban wedding now-a-days.

If you have trouble getting your arms in, put one arm in, and then the other elbow.

Out is much easier.

Way too much work.

Put both hands/forearms in. Drop below the plate. Put arms up (as if you are being robbed). Slide into harness.

 

[do it easy]

Way too much work.

Put both hands/forearms in. Drop below the plate. Put arms up (as if you are being robbed). Slide into harness.

Once you do it a few times, it goes faster since you don't have to sing the song.

 

[PerroneFord]

Once you do it a few times, it goes faster since you don't have to sing the song.

Dude, we have GOT to dive together. You're a riot!

 

[OneBrightGator]

Way too much work.

Put both hands/forearms in. Drop below the plate. Put arms up (as if you are being robbed). Slide into harness.

You must own a lot of Halcyon equipment...

 

[do it easy]

Dude, we have GOT to dive together. You're a riot!

Come on up! The water is brisk!