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Well I went and did a job today, it was a good one....fall 2 red maples (1 was about 20" dbh and the other about 16"dbh) and cut them up into manageable size pieces for the homeowner. The only tough part was they had a little lean toward the house so I put a rope on them to be safe. Anyway I went to the job with a 150', 9/16 stable braid rope.... yup, you guessed it I now have 2 PIECES OF STABLE BRAID!!!!!!!! The only good part about it is that I only cut of about 30'. Now if I only knew how to splice I would have a couple of nice slings :D Please tell me I'm not the only one who ever did this :eek:

Jeff (rookie in training)
 
Now you have learned what each and every one of us has learned the hard way. I've had groundmen get pissed at me because I am so insistent that my ropes be removed from the tree/ limb/ whatever BEFORE they go anywhere near it with a chainsaw. But they usually listen to me after they have cut one of my ropes.
Now you might be just as insistent as I am about removing the rope before starting the saw.

Stable Braid isn't difficult to splice if it is still relatively new. Go here and use the instructions for double braid. Take your time and ask if you are unsure about anything. There's a couple threads in here about splicing, terminology, etc.
http://www.neropes.com/splice/default.htm
 
Brian, thanks for the site. I'll let Kurt ("my new climber") try it...maybe he'll be better at that than removing ropes from the tree!!! I'll take half the blame, the rope was buried in the snow and I should have double checked anyhow.

Jeff
 
Oops

Can't say I have done this, but I have cut a perfectly good extension cord in half while trimming my cedar hedge; it least it was mine. Live extension cords are far more exciting, big poof and a flash. Blew the ground fault interupter as well.
 
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I was working one day with a friend at his house. I don't know how this happened... but somehow I cut about 3 feet off the tail of my lowering line in the tree. Luckily there was no damage.
 
Happened to me with a 3/4" double braid. It does splice back together well but you need the proper fid lenght for the rope you are splicing. I used a 1/2 inch fid but did the math to know where to make my marks and cuts. I think Samson's website has a chart to go by tho.
 
I did it to a brand new climbing line around 6 years ago, you know, last cut as I'm comming down....:eek: I had just enough to reach the ground, and had two ropes for climbing crabs after I trimed back to clean line.

I've nicked rigging ropes too, and did not notice till it came back up:eek:
 
Your experience

And who can tell, how reliably such splicing of a rope? How many Tension holds? (I have in view of self-made splicing) And where it is possible to use? (Lanyard, Bull Ropes.....)
 
Re: Your experience

Originally posted by Grigory
And who can tell, how reliably such splicing of a rope? How many Tension holds? (I have in view of self-made splicing) And where it is possible to use? (Lanyard, Bull Ropes.....)


I look at it this way, if i can trust my life to a spliced climbing line I can trust a spliced lowering line. A spliced rope can retain as much as 95% of the original strengh. So why trust a bowline knot on that rope and not a splice?

The best thing to do would be destroy the rope or use it for tie downs or something. A new rope is less expensive than a new roof, car, person, etc.
 
"cut rope"

Yes sir,
that's why I tend more now to go with hte orange or true blue! Easier for the groundies to see.
 
All rolled up too!

A friend of mine said he took down his Christmas lights and decorations in record time when he snagged on to the cord with the snow blower!

Frank
 
Originally posted by murphy4trees
Nothing here happened to you, me or anyone else..

You happenned to the rope.....

:laugh: More of that, ah, um, ack, wisdom. LMAO

Are you related to Mike or is he your hero?
 

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