Whoopie sling question

[ozzy42]

I purchased a 3/4 tenex sling yesterday and I'm not sure as to which loop you actually attach the block or porty to.
The sherril book I have shows one pic with it attached to the fixed loop and another with it on the adjustable loop.
Is their a correct one to use ,or does it not matter?
All this "false crotch" stuff is pretty new to me.Never used a store bought sling before.

 

[Oak Savanna]

Hang the block or porty in the fixed eye, set it where you want on the tree then pull the tail and render it tight to minimize slack in your rigging. If you have a porty girth hitched to the small eye on the whoppie you can slack it off and unchoke it because the porty will fit through a big loop and not the small fixed eye in most cases.
Hope that helps!

 

[winchman]

defintely the fixed eye

it does matter, hang the block or pow off the fixed eye.

too bad sherrill is confusing the issue.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Attaching to the adjustable portion would go contrary to the purpose, thr Whoopie is to replace the Cows Hitch or Stilson.

I prefer the Loopie developed by Norm Hall; there is a lot less play in the rigging attached.

Maybe you confused the two?

 

[ozzy42]

Attaching to the adjustable portion would go contrary to the purpose, thr Whoopie is to replace the Cows Hitch or Stilson.

I prefer the Loopie developed by Norm Hall; there is a lot less play in the rigging attached.

Maybe you confused the two?

Thanks for the replies guys.

I thought the fixed eye made more sense,and that is what "MOST" of the pics show.
The one that was contradictory is on pg.65 of the Vemeere/Sherrill 2009 arborist supply master catolog.
It shows the one JPS posted above with it installed on a spar.and then to the right it shows it installed on a tree base with 2 hands using a porty,and the porty is girth hitched to the adjustable loop.Probably an illistration error.

JPS I will get a loopie next.I went with the woopie first because it opens to 9ft and the loopies only 8.

One last thing. Is there any tendency for this thing to slip under load at all?
Should the tail be half hitched or tucked or anything?

 

[sgreanbeans]

Its a dressing thing, just like your frictions, you need to dress it throughout the day. They can slip on a big load if a little loose. I take the tail and wrap it around the girth a couple of times, then wrap it around the tree, finding a space that I can tuck it into, keeping it off the ground and away from the hand/bull line. I use the loopie on the mini-port up in the tree, on smaller stuff.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Its a dressing thing, just like your frictions, you need to dress it throughout the day. They can slip on a big load if a little loose. I take the tail and wrap it around the girth a couple of times, then wrap it around the tree, finding a space that I can tuck it into, keeping it off the ground and away from the hand/bull line. I use the loopie on the mini-port up in the tree, on smaller stuff.

Like Scott, I will get the tail out of the working area, sometimes I will just flip them up on a limb over the rig-point.

With setting, you need to ensure that the rig is tight, and pulls into the bight. Setting it backwards defeats the locking mechanism. Both loose and backwards will not only set you up for slippage, but sudden rope-on-rope friction that will cause melting.

It really sucks when you do a job and find that the first time you used an $80 sling, you have degraded it drastically.