OK so rained out Fri so today was my first day with it, hot as all get out today so we only did a few trims. Initial thoughts as riding up on the Wraptor was WOW I friekin love this thing!! When hanging in the saddle the leg pads are just awesome at distributing the load=super comfy. Obviously I missed my custom saw snap on my right hip but did have a good spot for a biner to hang the saw on and if this were my harness I would sew one on before going to work. I spent about an hour, maybe less over the weekend changing out the bridge and getting it set up. Im sure I could do some more fine tuning but as said it felt awesome anyways. When I started to work the tree I noticed that when lanyarded in it didnt feel great on my boney ass hips , not much padding on that spot, I would suggest more padding but Im sure every climber likes different stuff. It became obvious that you need to wear some kind of sling/suspenders as the saw pulls the belt down in short order, luckily I have been using a New TRibe sling anyways so put it on and solved that issue.
Would love to do a big honking Wreck with this thing to give it a true test drive but in the middle of this heat wave dont know if thats going to happen..........
Bottom line "Good job New Tribe!! excellent saddle!!" Funny thing is I was going to try to come up with a saddle that was a mix between a Sequoia and a NT with the triangle pads, dont need to bother now. Only disapointment is the price, somebody needs to stem the ever increasing prices of these things.
