Saddle testing

[biggta5]

I’ve been building a few saddle of my own design and figured I would test one to see how well it held up . Sewing bridge held 3300 lbs before it ripped the stitches out. I believe it would’ve held more if the we would have pulled more evenly on both loops. This test was done in a U shape. Next we testing the saddle in the U shape it’s held 12,160 before the crane tripped the rest button. It held this weight for 4 hours that how long it took to rest the crane. Lol. Then we decided to put the saddle long ways from loop to loop this way held to 9,080 before ripping apart where it was sewed together at the bottom. Needless to say I’m pretty happy with those results. I have videos that I’ll post later. For now I have a few pictures

 

[Aaronpaul14]

That’s awesome! Well done!!

 

[always89y]

Very cool. Interested in how your design differs, and how that effected your tests?

 

[Squatch]

Tree thong for the win


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[Weldabeast]

I think there's some formula to figure how much the strength decrease depending on configuration

 

[drew13]

Excellent work, biggta5! That's really cool.

Can you provide some info on what kind of webbing, thread, how much webbing overlap and stitch patterns you used? Thanks a lot for posting this.

 

[biggta5]

I think there's some formula to figure how much the strength decrease depending on configuration

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Definitely. I took all this into consideration in my testing. I thought before testing that basket the saddle would hold 16,000. So that put put my strait pull of 9,080 above that since it doubles when in the basket position.

 

[biggta5]

Excellent work, biggta5! That's really cool.

Can you provide some info on what kind of webbing, thread, how much webbing overlap and stitch patterns you used? Thanks a lot for posting this.

Webbing is 2” wide rated for 6,000lb. Thread is bonded tex90
Overlap is 6”
Stitch pattern is something I call the triple diamond. If you zoom in on the saddle picture above you can see it.

 

[drew13]

Webbing is 2” wide rated for 6,000lb. Thread is bonded tex90
Overlap is 6”
Stitch pattern is something I call the triple diamond. If you zoom in on the saddle picture above you can see it.

Great info for everyone thinking of building their own saddle. Thanks a ton for sharing.

 

[smcchevy]

Awesome!

 

[gameflogger]

I’ve been building a few saddle of my own design and figured I would test one to see how well it held up . Sewing bridge held 3300 lbs before it ripped the stitches out. I believe it would’ve held more if the we would have pulled more evenly on both loops. This test was done in a U shape. Next we testing the saddle in the U shape it’s held 12,160 before the crane tripped the rest button. It held this weight for 4 hours that how long it took to rest the crane. Lol. Then we decided to put the saddle long ways from loop to loop this way held to 9,080 before ripping apart where it was sewed together at the bottom. Needless to say I’m pretty happy with those results. I have videos that I’ll post later. For now I have a few pictures

Wow!!!! Do you mean to tell me that these saddles we are making are mother in law rated too?

 

[Polarbear]

Wow!!!! Do you mean to tell me that these saddles we are making are mother in law rated too?

Lmao
I bet it can’t contain my mother in-law!!!
She’s a real stitch ripper


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