Now thats a splice

[TimberMcPherson]

Got a couple new butt ropes, and they came spliced. (as you can see they would be hard to tie knots in them) 45 tonne line anyone?



We sometimes do big trees on steep country, these are insurance.

 

[a_lopa]

Look great,Where did you get them?

 

[reachtreeservi]

Now thats a splice !

Man, what a line. Where'd you get that bad boy ?
And if you don't mind me asking, what's the cost ? opcorn:

 

[oldirty]

that would be a ton of fun to try to tie a running bo'lin. lol

nice rope timber. what is the strength of rope like that?

 

[Themadd1]

I just bought a splice kit from baileys.. I cant imagine doint a splice like that. It must be 3-4 inches in diameter.

Good god. What are you pulling over a tug boat?

 

[joesawer]

I have a piece of double braid that is 2 1/2" diameter. I wish I knew how to splice it, because tying a knot is a real pain.
It came from the ship yards in Mobile Al.
It is the ticket for catching heavy loads or pulling out stuck tractors.

 

[Gumnuts]

I just bought a splice kit from baileys.. I cant imagine doint a splice like that. It must be 3-4 inches in diameter.

Good god. What are you pulling over a tug boat?

rep for the tug boat

 

[treeclimber jul]

I just saw a 1/2in rated at 34,000 lbs. We have in a tree in the yard a old tug boat rope, 2.75in not sure, but it is hard to get grip on it.

What happened to the ms200?? It shrunk.

 

[Canyonbc]

I just saw a 1/2in rated at 34,000 lbs. We have in a tree in the yard a old tug boat rope, 2.75in not sure, but it is hard to get grip on it.

What happened to the ms200?? It shrunk.

1/2'' rope rated at 34,000 lbs...what rope is this???

Arent most like 7,000-8,000...lbs??

Or was this a typo, and if so sorry for asking..but in to other news...i think the 200T did shrink...that is ridicolous.

Canyon

 

[rbtree]

1/2'' rope rated at 34,000 lbs...what rope is this??

Canyon

That is UHMWPE line......Samson's is called Amsteel Blue, PSRope's is Plasma. Similar to spectra, but 30% higher tensile. I have a 5/8th spectra sling, rated at about 55,000, some 1/2 inch plasma, and 600 feet of 1/2 inch spectra, 24k lb.....these are 12 strand hollow braid like Tenex, so susceptible to wear and picking.

Nero zero stretch at break, can be used repeated at nearly full tensile---not for shock loading!!!

A more versatile line is jacketed spectra (double braid-spectra core) stiffer, rounder, better for use on a lowering device, but still only for lifting or pulling applications.

 

[TimberMcPherson]

You can see that theres 2 new ropes there, one is 3 inch, has a breaking strain of 75 tonnes and is about 9 yards long.
The bigger line is 5 inch and the breaking strain is, well, adaquate.

Got them both from a provedor for less than $200, as there were left over off cuts from ship mooring lines. Im hoping murphy says since I have them, I wont be doing a tree so stupid to need em. Well theres always hope right?

 

[turnkey4099]

I came into, I think it was Dutch Harbor, from a missile monitor mission off Kamchatka. Watched them tie up to the dock against a strong side wind. Hawser was about the size of my upper leg. When it had squoze down to the size of my wrist I decided there was probably something more interesting on the other side of the ship.

Harry K

 

[bigbadbob]

I have a piece of double braid that is 2 1/2" diameter. I wish I knew how to splice it, because tying a knot is a real pain.
It came from the ship yards in Mobile Al.
It is the ticket for catching heavy loads or pulling out stuck tractors.

Not that hard to splice. But if it is used it is very hard to do. I spent four hours putting a eye in a 1 inch double braid, it was used.

 

[moray]

Nice rope!

I saw the loaded ferry at Woods Hole break a big hawser one time. It had left for Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard, but quickly turned back because the waves and wind were too great. They got a big hawser around one of the capstans on the pier, but somehow the captain got into an oscillation back and forth along the pier before any other rope could be attached. His attempts to dampen the oscillations just made things worse, so the rope would stretch and get skinny, then send the boat flying back the other way. This would repeat at the other end and the boat would get launched back where it came from. Each cycle was noticeably worse than the one before, and after about 4 cycles, the rope snapped. It made a terrific explosion, and sent scraps of rope flying. I went over and looked at the broken ends for a minute or two, and thought to myself, "this is something I will never see again."