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Splicing rope?

flinginairos said:
That's exactly what I am gonna do. I think a tight spliced eye on each end would be sweet!
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Yup I agree. It will be crazy strong, slide easily through my carabiner and weigh next to nothing. It's going to be the cat's pajamas.
 
g2outdoors said:
I'm going to pick up some 3/16 or 1/4 amsteel and splice in fixed eyes for my bridge.
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You would hang from 1/4" and have no worries? I know you have extensive hammock background, maybe Im just gun shy. Id sit in a hammock hung up by that crappy clothes line rope, but wouldnt if the hammock was 20ft in the air.
 
kenn1320 said:
You would hang from 1/4" and have no worries? I know you have extensive hammock background, maybe Im just gun shy. Id sit in a hammock hung up by that crappy clothes line rope, but wouldnt if the hammock was 20ft in the air.
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I think so. I know that 7/64 Amsteel will hold my body weight with no issues whatsoever. It breaks at 1,400 lbs. 1/4 Amsteel has a minimum strength of 7,700 lbs and and average strength of 8,600 lbs. The Bluewater assault line I currently use for my tether has a tensile strength of just over 7,600 lbs.

Even though the Amsteel at 1/4" doesn't look or feel as beefy as climbing rope, the science says it is. Off-roaders are using 1/4 Amsteel on their winches as a winch cable replacement. It's really impressive stuff. All that said, I would do extensive experimentation at ground level before going up.
 
Look how strong the 3/16 Amsteel is and it's smaller than the 1/4" and only has a 5,400 lb break strength.

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I know it doesn't look/feel strong when compared to the typical climbing rope, but Amsteel is the real deal. There's no reason we shouldn't embrace it.
 
I watched that video yesterday and was sold on it right away lol. Amazing stuff.


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The reason I like to use a fid is because the fid is a template for the length and taper of the tail.....No guess work, or calculating.
 
Well after watching lots of videos and reading about it I dived right in. Did my first eye splice on my Yale Bandit tether. It really wasn't hard but took a bit of muscle to bury the splice!! I can see this being addicting to do haha!
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Amsteel is very easy to work with. From looking at your rope, I would guess a lot easier than the Yale.
 
Yale is a hollow braid? I thought you could only splice hollow braid?
 
kenn1320 said:
Yale is a hollow braid? I thought you could only splice hollow braid?
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This is a different technique. It's a double braid. Look up Yale Blue moon splicing on YouTube that rope is the same construction as Bandit and Blaze. I just did another one I'm worn out now LOL


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OK, yes I know of braiding an eye loop, but thought you somehow burried the end on a rope with a core. :lol:

Looks like you did an awesome job on your first one. :cool:
 
kenn1320 said:
OK, yes I know of braiding an eye loop, but thought you somehow burried the end on a rope with a core. :lol:

Looks like you did an awesome job on your first one. :cool:
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You pull the core out at a certain mark, bury the cover into the core and then that back into the cover and milk the cover back over where the two meet. It's a little confusing at first but not too bad to do. It will take some practice but I am real happy with how it turned out!


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flinginairos said:
Well after watching lots of videos and reading about it I dived right in. Did my first eye splice on my Yale Bandit tether. It really wasn't hard but took a bit of muscle to bury the splice!! I can see this being addicting to do haha!
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Dude that's great! Now you should load test it. Let the post season crafting begiiiiiiin!
 
DIYSaddler said:
flinginairos said:
Well after watching lots of videos and reading about it I dived right in. Did my first eye splice on my Yale Bandit tether. It really wasn't hard but took a bit of muscle to bury the splice!! I can see this being addicting to do haha!
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Dude that's great! Now you should load test it. Let the post season crafting begiiiiiiin!
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Was hanging from it jumping up and down. Didn't budge a bit lol. Not sure how else to test it short of hooking it to my truck. Hmmm..... Haha


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kenn1320 said:
I couldnt understand why they charged so much to eye splice rope, now I see its very labor intensive. Even with this cool tool, it seems to be challenging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYemvQlrIEU
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It certainly isn't easy. The method itself isn't complicated but getting the splice buried at the end will about wear you out lol. I did two more. My hands hurt and I have blisters, but I'm happy with my efforts!
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flinginairos said:
Was hanging from it jumping up and down. Didn't budge a bit lol. Not sure how else to test it short of hooking it to my truck. Hmmm..... Haha
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I did a sewn eye on my climbing rope. First test myself 220lbs and a coworker 120lbs hanging and bouncing on it. Then I setup a climb in the park with a 60' throw in where the first part of the tree I could touch was over 40'. At about 30' I started looking up at my sewing job and then back down at the ground, back at my sewing, and back down at the ground. At this point I decided not testing was needed.

Back to work.

I kidnapped one of my second shift employees who if a bit on the hefty size to repeat the experiment. So we went out to the parking lot and I set the rope in one of the trees a island. After the hook up and the obligatory bouncing I casually ask how much he weighed just to make sure I had a good test. When he told me it was all I could do to keep my jaw attached to my face. The answer 430lbs! 650 lbs total I now trust my sewn eye.
 
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