Portable fall protection

So I’m enjoying my first year of open deck and learned quite a lot from many different sources. Been to many facilities that won’t let you on the load to tarp, etc. Some had facilities to accommodate that requirement others didn’t. So here’s my question, would it be feasible to develop one’s own home built fall protection? I’ve googled around and can’t find anything that could be carried on the truck easily but I did come across this:

Now it’s really expensive and geared to ISO containers, but what would stop a guy from getting two stout 8’ poles and finding a way to secure them in stale pockets with a cable run between, I don’t think I’d overload the WLL of pockets yet! I know it wouldn’t be OSHA approved or allowed to be used on a customers property but for those that want you to “pull out the gate over there to tarp” it might provide some safety for yourself. I’m no sucker, I realize they want you off their property so they’re not responsible if you fall and they SHOULD provide a place to tarp, it seems the norm of open decking is to just make you move. Coupled with the proper harness I don’t see why it couldn’t be done and easily set up/down and transported .

 

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Nice thought, definitely not the way reality is sadly.

 

By that reasoning, just don’t have an accident. No need for insurance then

 

For all those that say “well just don’t tarp it then”, that does not appear to happen any time soon. Even if they let you tarp on the property you are still in danger of falling.

 

Not sure if the two minute thing. Done a lot of rappelling and often sit in the harness. Even sat in a Swiss seat I tied myself out of a piece of rope and went off a 300’ cliff with it. There’s pressure but it never was an issue