Gaff guard for linemen's climbers

A guard for the gaff of a lineman's climber having a leg iron to which said gaff is secured, said guard comprising a body of synthetic resinous material having parts comprising,

• (a) a scabbard having a longitudinally elongated hollow interior for receiving the point of said gaff,
• (b) a clip adapted to straddle transversely opposite sides of said leg iron at a location above said gaff and to there attach by a snap-on action to said leg iron, said clip comprising an arm longitudinally spaced from and disposed transversely of said scabbard, a pair of prongs joined to said arm on transversely opposite sides of the centerline of said interior and projecting rearward from said arm, and a pair of tabs each joined rearward of said arm to a respective one of said prongs and projecting therefrom inwardly towards each other to be disposed to make contact with the back face of said leg iron upon attachment thereto of said clip, and
• (c) a resilient stem coupling said clip and scabbard together in fixed spatial relation when said stem is resiliently unstressed, said stem being connected to said arm by a junction thereof and to said scabbard by a junction of said arm and scabbard inwards of the outer side of said scabbard, and said junctions being transversely offset to the same side from said centerline to permit said stem to extend between said clip and scabbard to one transverse side of the base of said gaff.