hindu eye

[056kid]

I was laying here and it popped into my head, cant remember how to rig one as simple as they are that'll drive me nutz unless I ask. Cause Google thinks im talking about the third eye....
thanks.
And any other cool rigging stuff can be put forth, like what I was taught to be a sheave shackle. A shackle on a main line that a sheave on say a carriage or block can ride over. Again google shows pictures of blocks with a shackle on top... terminology thing I rekon. I spent some time with an old hook tender who would start talking rigging and id be lost after the first minute in a 15 minute lesson. So periodically this #### just pops up and I want to learn more, you know make some sense of it. The man knew his stuff it seemed. I wouldn't be surprised if someone knows him around here..

 

[woodchuck357]

Maybe Hondo eye?

 

[Gologit]

Molly Hogan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_rope

 

[056kid]

Maybe Hondo eye?

Dont ask me, im just a dumb ass timber faller. Get me in a patch of blow down and I dont know my ass from a hole in the ground... you may excuse yourself now...

Molly Hogan?
No, this was just an eye spliced in haywire with a little metal hook deal that closed the eye. This could be something common that I have fudged the name. I learned alot every day, but I lost a lot on the way home with busch and peppermint schnapps. I cant find the brand they sold out there in brookings around here but oh my lord. Talk about some fun drink. I know I know, drinking is not good for your health, but that **** was some kind of magical bottom shelf fluid. Put down a 5th in a hurry and get ready to feel the after burners kick in. Shranks or something like that.

I am going to try to get out there to visit here before too long, im sure I can find him on the south chetco jetty with some after work libations and a crummy full of all the answers to my questions.
Im sick of these north carolinians boo cooing about hooking 4 lb flounder and 6 lb sea trout. I need some springer opener action and some halibut & ling jigging. Of course some dungees mmmmmmmmm, hit up some muscles on a good minus tide. Damnit man!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_rope

 

[northmanlogging]

Sounds like a straw line splice? there might be a different name for it? Basically two eye's with the hook attached to the end eye a loop up the line for it to hook back into? Use it to pull bigger line?
Got a splicing manual around here somewheres:msp_unsure:

 

[Humptulips]

A hindu is a short strap with a strawline hook in one eye, sometimes called a ##### strap. A ##### would be the end of the strawline with a hook. Several ways to make them but you end up with a strap about 3" or 4" long when doubled, ends up about 18" or 2'.
Or you can make them without a srawline hook and close with a molly. Often used on long yarding shows where there will be a lot of work if it something comes unhooked.
We used to use a similar strap to send the skyline back when changing roads on bigger slacklines, hooking the skyline to the haulback. It was a short strap like a hindu but with a molly in one eye and a small shackle to attach the other eye to the molly. We called that a goat. Not sure if that was an industry wide term. When the skyline came back you would make your hook up and to get loose from it you would use a splitting maul and an axe to chop the molly off. You put the sharp edge of the maul in the molly turned it 90 degrees and stuck the handle in the dirt. Then chopped the molly laying over the head of the maul.
Usually used a catch shackle to stop the haulback when chopped loose.
Catch shackle is a straight sided shackle the size of the line that will be running through it and a bar welded that far from the pin, knockout pin. Usually you would have a short choker spliced into the shackle. So you stop the skyline coming back, shacle to skyline strap at tailhold, put catch shackle over haulback, chop molly on goat, haulback runs to catchshackle, eye won't go through. Then make your return hookup to get haulback back to landing or if you can shotgun you can pick the haulback up out of the way and go to logging.

Never heard them called sheave shackles. I think you are talking about a rollover shackle/extension shackle. Used to have keyed shackles for that, then they went to screw shackles with a recessed square hole to turn them. Supposed to be safer.

 

[Humptulips]

Arrgh, evidently can't use the word they were called. Kind of long winded to call them a female dog strap though.

 

[paccity]

well there you go. thanks hump.

 

[Humptulips]

056,
On another note :msp_thumbup: to the peppermint shnapps.

 

[Gologit]

Good information.

 

[056kid]

Aaaaa, here we go again! Hump, you sound just like my old hook tender foreman with that juicy info. He showed me some stuff like you are talking about. I am going to start studying on rigging more here. Its gonna take a while to visualize your post but damnit I'm going to pick it all up, and someday put it to good use.
Like I said, share anything you guys want, my fascination with rigging especially big stuff has been growing since I left curry county. Thanks men!