whoopie, loopie slings splicing

PurdueJoe

PurdueJoe

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Just picked up some 5/8's tenex and am getting ready to splice my own whoopie and loopie slings for rigging. I know how they are made but was wondering if anyone has any step by step directions for these rigging slings in case there is some hidden step in there I don't know about.
 
Samson rope's website has good instructions for whoopies but none for loopies. Loopies are real easy though, just use the same measurements for the adjustable part and two back splices.
 
sherrill has a short video on the loopie application. Look up amsteel and the last item is an amsteel loopie I think, click on video.

I haven't used whoopies or loopies. But was considering trying it soon. After I saw the video, I decided I didn't really need to buy one.

An eye sling doesn't take much longer for me to tie and a lot of times I like the long tail to go over to another leader to help support the crotch of the one I'm ging to be lowering off of.

Nick, I don't understand at all what you mean. Could you explain further or a picture sometime?
 
I agree with Nick--use a longer bury on the Loopie.

If the Loopie is always used correctly (a big if), meaning it is always used in the choker configuration and the spliced section is always formed into a bight to capture the hardware-attachment loop (see the Sherrill video), then Nick's advice is probably unnecessary.

But someone is going to treat the Loopie as just a handy adjustable loop and employ it in a straight-pull situation. This is emphatically unsafe, and it is especially unsafe with the standard one-fid-length sleeve. If you double the sleeve length and want to use the Loopie for a straight pull, you will still want a bight in the spliced section for one of the pull points. For maximum safety the pull point should not be in the middle of the spliced section, but close to the end opposite where the long adjustment tail emerges. This way the pressure at the pull point performs the function that stitching would perform in a normal hollow-braid splice.
 
Whoopieslings have two eyes to them, one of which is a fixed eye and the other is adjustable, a loopie sling is one, large adjustable eye sling used mainly for blocks and what nots via girth hitch
 
I found this very helpful:

http://www.howcast.com/videos/18098-How-To-Splice-a-Whoopie-Sling-With-Yalex

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