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DIY Utilibridge

AKMonkey said:
What are you guys using for a stopper knot on the Amsteel? Everything I read about Amsteel, and my own experience, says that it doesn't hold knots very well. Seems like a big fat splice of some kind would work better.
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I just tied a double overhand knot
 
Can't find a way to splice a continuous loop onto the bridge loop and then turn it into a prusik. Seems like you have to use a carabiner or girth hitch it. Any ideas?
 
skyjacker said:
Can't find a way to splice a continuous loop onto the bridge loop and then turn it into a prusik. Seems like you have to use a carabiner or girth hitch it. Any ideas?
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Splice the loop onto the bridge loop. Make the prusik around an arrow shaft or the something of the like and slide the prusik of the item and onto the bridge. Tie the stopper knot after you get the prusik on the bridge. No carabiner or girth hitch needed.
 
AKMonkey said:
What are you guys using for a stopper knot on the Amsteel? Everything I read about Amsteel, and my own experience, says that it doesn't hold knots very well. Seems like a big fat splice of some kind would work better.
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You could splice a loop with the free end instead of a stopper knot. You can then use a carabiner through that loop and connect it back to the right side bridge loop. That way if your prussic didn’t catch or even failed, you are connected will essentially a long fixed bridge.

I understand why Tethrd probably didn’t do it this way. Someone would choose to remove the carabiner and then run the bridge all the way through the prussic and fall. I guess someone could likewise untie the stopper knot and Darwin themselves, too.
 
mtsrunner said:
You could splice a loop with the free end instead of a stopper knot. You can then use a carabiner through that loop and connect it back to the right side bridge loop. That way if your prussic didn’t catch or even failed, you are connected will essentially a long fixed bridge.

I understand why Tethrd probably didn’t do it this way. Someone would choose to remove the carabiner and then run the bridge all the way through the prussic and fall. I guess someone could likewise untie the stopper knot and Darwin themselves, too.
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That's probably a good strategy, with the carabiner. I'm wondering about tying a double overhand or barrel knot as a stopper, leaving a long tag end, then burying the tag end in a locked brummel to hold the knot. Not sure if you could make the brummel if you already have a brummel loop spliced in the other end, but it seems like you probably could. Might need to stop the "full length bury" from the fixed loop end a little bit short of the stopper knot end, to allow you to make the splice and bury the tag end from your stopper knot.
 
AKMonkey said:
That's probably a good strategy, with the carabiner. I'm wondering about tying a double overhand or barrel knot as a stopper, leaving a long tag end, then burying the tag end in a locked brummel to hold the knot. Not sure if you could make the brummel if you already have a brummel loop spliced in the other end, but it seems like you probably could. Might need to stop the "full length bury" from the fixed loop end a little bit short of the stopper knot end, to allow you to make the splice and bury the tag end from your stopper knot.
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Correct. You would stop the full length bury at the finished length that you wanted as your longest possible usable bridge length. Take the remaining tag end and make your second eye splice.
 
skyjacker said:
Can't find a way to splice a continuous loop onto the bridge loop and then turn it into a prusik. Seems like you have to use a carabiner or girth hitch it. Any ideas?
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Tie the Prussik on a short stick, and then girth hitch the Prussik. That’s what I did yesterday when I tried it out.

All I had on hand was 1/4” amsteel and I didn’t have a full length bury. Was just experimenting. Definitely needs a full length bury.


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cspot said:
I am a little surprised and a little disappointed that we don't have a video from someone yet showing a step by step instruction on making one. LOL.
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I spent about 10 minutes here. Made a continuous loop from the left over 1/4” amsteel from the Mantis bridge I disassembled. I used that loop to make a Prussik. I made a locked Brummell on a piece of 1/4” amsteel and made a full length bury. I girth hitched the spliced eye to the left side. Tied the Prussik. Then I threaded a soft shackle in the Prussik and removed the bridge. I girth hitched the Prussik and then fed the bridge back through.

1/4” full bury bridge. 1/4” continuous loop. Will make a smaller diameter loop at some point since I think it’ll be easier to manipulate.

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