Bee-Line choice for Distel hitch?

[802climber]

So this is kind of a finicky question about eye to eye split tails... Or maybe it's beating a dead horse, I don't know... I have been climbing on an Ice tail for awhile now which was nice but I just recently switched back to a 10mm x 30" Bee Line.

I was under the impression that the smaller diameter split tails (8mm bee line) are for smaller diameter ropes (poison ivy, etc), but please correct me if I'm wrong.

I am tying a distel on 1/2" blue streak rope, with the usual 4 wraps (looks like three under load) it collapses and I have to re-dress it each time I want it to grab. If I add a wrap and make it 5 (looks like four under load) then it binds up especially when ascending and is too much friction overall and I have to keep stopping, taking the load off and re-dressing it to loosen things up a bit then it runs like a dream. Would rather have too much friction than fall, so I have just been putting slack back from the eyes toward the wraps every once in awhile and it does quite well.

I am thinking if I got one length shorter bee line it wouldn't collapse with the proper 4 wrap distel, or if I went longer it wouldn't bind with the extra wrap. I weigh about 160 and four wraps should be more than enough. I feel like I've seen guys my size just tie three.. Hopefully I'm headed in the right direction here. Haven't had this kind of problem since I was climbing on an old glazed bee line. But both my rope and bee line are newer and neither is glazed.

Thanks a lot for any advice.

 

[freeweight]

my beeline FOR THE DISTEL is short WAY shorter than 30" ,its always gonna look like 3/1 under load ,its fine

when o tie the distel i have to force the eyes onto the biner ,i like it this way 8mm on soft supple half inch line is just trouble ,couldnt imagine it on true blue

 

[freeweight]

it isnt that 3 wraps wont hold u its just ,the less wraps the quicker it releases i tried 2 over 1 10ft up just for ####s n gits and it held just fine but i went down 5 feet by just barely touching it

 

[tree md]

I'm running 8mm icetail on PI. I went from 30" to 26" and it really took a lot of slop out of my setup. I have just enough cordage to tie my friction hitch and that's the way I like it.

 

[oscar4883]

10mm Beeline on XTC here. Something around 24-26in. I believe. Like freeweight, I have to force the eyes on some but I like the that there is no slop in the set-up.

 

[Slvrmple72]

Tight and responsive is always the best way to go!