Recent content by Mesquite
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Spider leg Tenex Tex splice?
https://www.samsonrope.com/resources/how-to-splice-rope- Mesquite
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Double head X - Ring splice
On bend rights website they girth hitched the rings- Mesquite
- Post #11
- Forum: The Splice Rack
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7' accessory lanyard w/screw-in traps
rock exotica makes for monkey beaver a double auto lock biner, a twist and a push and your open. it is the biner for their speed line kit, and you have to buy it with a web sling but for 27 bucks it not a bad deal. https://monkeybeaver.com/product/single-biner-combo/ one other idea i have for...- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Communication
i have not personally used them but i have heard great things about sonetics. people that have used sonetics, senna, packtalks, say the sonetics are superior @ 5:25 is when jake starts talking about them. whats wrong with the good ol classic portable cb radio? with the correct antenna setup it...- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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what kind of all thread
Im not trying to tell you what to do willbur, the ansi pdf i posted earlier in the thread. Explains the 2/3rd rule with a diagram plus a bunch of other topics that have been discussed. A read through is exactly what i needed.- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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The ansi a300 says for a 18 inch diameter weighing 1200lbs you should use at least 1/2 common grade , 1/4 ehs or 1/4 aircraft. If it weighs 1400 just 200 more lbs it bumps the ehs up to the 5/16. I'm far from an expert but if that tree is the same now as in the pic I would definitely go...- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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how big is the wood where you put the eye bolts willbur? of the tree we have been discussing of your cabling?- Mesquite
- Post #30
- Forum: General Discussion
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on that webpage willbur posted for the cable it does say the 1400lbs is the working load and its galvanized, the wild thing about the stuff is that it has the same make up as aircraft cable 7-19. so really we should be trying to show them the right way, which is why this forum exists in the...- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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i will get a couple of photo's when im there next time, which will be a couple of days. the scanned copy i posted was ansi a300 part 3 2013 a revision of ansi a300 part 3 2006. if you look at the front page its all over it and if you look at page 3 the copyright is 2013. and unfortunately...- Mesquite
- Post #27
- Forum: General Discussion
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Thank you for the link 2013 is the most recent ansi standard they have come out with. In the link you shared to isa they are selling the 2013 version too- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Will be I think you are supposed to use heavy duty thimbles and these things in the link. It makes a spliced eye. All you do is wrap them around the cable it wa la good to go https://www.treestuff.com/preformed-tree-grip/- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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With those working loads you are using common grade not air craft grade. It goes in order of weakest to strongest, common, extra high strength (ehs) and then aircraft. I haven't looked to hard at the ansi for support systems yet but in there tables the list aircraft grade. Here is the ansi...- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
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i voluntarily live here because of A/C for starters and the coldest it has gotten this winter has been 32 degrees one night, and its usually in the 60-80 degrees from november through feb. it may get a little hotter here and there during the winter but no biggie. another reason is the heat is...- Mesquite
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- Forum: General Discussion
