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  1. eyehearttrees

    Tips/techniques for reducing the "kick"/push-back of a top from the trunk it's being cut-from?(minimizing the sway of the standing trunk)

    As title asks :) Recently took a rather large (relative-to-tree) top from a Live Oak and was amazed at how it changed the integrity of the trunk, from my "safe space" (a fork/union around 30' aloft) I could now easily induce some wobble in the trunk....now the whole plan of a quasi-normal "rig...
  2. eyehearttrees

    X ring or thimble

    Same (have notch branded safebloc with the matte coating, x-branded rings w/ matte coating & with satin coating, and elevation canada rings w/ satin coating) I think the lack of images online of worn-out anodization speaks volumes to how diesel the stuff is (last I checked there's that 1...
  3. eyehearttrees

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    It's funny because I'd consider those overpriced given the section! Got almost all my bullrope from that section of their site (love Wesspur!!) for ~2/3rd MSRP, but for those slings you're still paying nearly the retail price for the eye-splices (3/4 tec is like 1.50/ft, they've got "$15...
  4. eyehearttrees

    "Safebloc reduces forces on the terminal anchoring point" - is this true?

    tl;dr - Had operated under assumption the Safebloc reduces forces on the location it's tethered to, now - after contemplating using a Porty there instead of a Safebloc - I can't reconcile the "lowers forces on the tie-in" with the obvious reality that, if you took 5 wraps on the porty and nearly...
  5. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    What differentiates a brummel from locked brummel? And Re strength, I think my mindset on not wanting to use that tail (are you saying you'd have given a thumbs-up for me to bury that braiding I did? Am a bit confused still on that) was that, to my understanding, the weak point is at the end of...
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    *Anyone* have some anecdotes on popped-hardware? (IE a Safebloc, rigging-rings etc 'escaping' the splice they're in)

    Oh and I wanna add, I think everyone can agree that the difference between 3/4 TEC or Polydyne for an XL ring, where they're both able to achieve a good 'bite' into the hardware, is of minor difference when compared to the jump to "Let's use 3/4TEC on Lrg rings" which those companies are...
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    *Anyone* have some anecdotes on popped-hardware? (IE a Safebloc, rigging-rings etc 'escaping' the splice they're in)

    Yeah it looks terrible (it's also the only rigging sling I've got by one of those companies you mention: Gap arbor makes slings w/ polydyne. I don't think there's anything wrong, per se, with it but I now don't think double braid is as suitable a cordage for rigging hardware as 12S is, wish I...
  8. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    That's cool I really wanna mess with this again am gonna order some more cordage am not happy with result here, my 1st attempt at braiding was hilarious I'm pretty sure I made "good piles" of the 4 groups of 3: But no matter how much I tried 'dressing' & tightening it into a real rope, this is...
  9. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    Schweeeeet, gotta say the round v flat part still eludes me (though I think your illustration above may've already been 'the round way') At any rate I feel ready to make it, and can justify the time right now (errr kinda lol, still gonna make it am sick of seeing it there on my table :P )
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    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    WOW that really makes it obvious, feel I could go braid a bracelet right now just seeing it I mean it's just 'criss crossing' a pair of strings, that's over & above another, stationary pair of strings...very confident I could make a bracelet, kinda cool!! But... I'm not seeing the round v flat...
  11. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    WOW!! I swear I've spliced before (quite a bit actually) I don't know how I mistook that, has been a while since my last session! Re 2nd brummelling I wish I understood your answer, I get the concept but don't know how to braid rope let alone "fighting" the lay of the rope (which is what I...
  12. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    @Brocky et al ---- Feel dumb asking but gotta..... I don't know how to do proper brummels, I mean I can if it's 1 eye but for the rig&ring I'm about to make here I realize I'm at an old roadblock I never overcame, how the hell do you do the final brummels, where you're passing each rope through...
  13. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    I wonder if my double-XL's on 3/4 polydyne sling would be more like 50x, or 300x, the ABS of one of yours :p [edit- it's important to keep bend radius in mind, you can have the strongest webbing in the world and a knife will still cut it, and a biner or a few biners are still tight-enough a...
  14. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    Shrrll Loop- only 4 fids? Why would samson have 5 fids per tail, just crazy over-kill? that's 10 fids (at 16" for a 3/4 cord) from Samson....honestly it did sound a bit overkill but I've always stuck with their writeups (excepting for Mercury which needed adapted SPLife procedure) And you...
  15. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    Ok last Q for now I promise! When using really long "rig & ring" slings (like 7' or 10' slings with a ring on each side), but using them where their length isn't needed like on a skinnier spar, is there anything wrong with grabbing the two rings with one hand, grabbing the center of the rope...
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    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    Oh and kinda related, in case making a ~3' sling with 3/4 isn't something I'm able to easily/comfortably do... When making "rig & ring" slings that are longer than usual, would any of you run your tails/buries to the center of the sling (like with eye&eye hitchcord splices) or would you simply...
  17. eyehearttrees

    Minimum buries for 12S loop slings? (Samson's guide would make a 3' loop impossible :/ )

    tl;dr - How would you make short loop-slings (with a brummelled rigging ring in the sling), like those 36" slings in Sherrill's magazines, when the bury-length for loops is 5 fids (so like 75" for 3/4" rope) per side, that makes a 3' loop impossible to make but I see they're available....and...
  18. eyehearttrees

    Ring and ring with x rigging rings

    These are so damn useful, I made one that's almost 10' long and it lets me have a "2 anchor" setup from 1 sling in many instances (IE in spreading canopies that single anchor can let me have a pair of XL's set up to 9' apart from each other based on the canopy :D ), can of course just wrap it...
  19. eyehearttrees

    Ring and ring with x rigging rings

    FWIW I've found the Samson "eye & eye split tail" writeup/instructional to great success, not just Ice Tail hitches but also 5/8 TEC eye&eyes :)
  20. eyehearttrees

    *Anyone* have some anecdotes on popped-hardware? (IE a Safebloc, rigging-rings etc 'escaping' the splice they're in)

    Would love to hear anecdotes if anyone's ever seen this, @Merle Nelson brought it up in another thread and, for instance, the Safebloc is listed by Sherrill/Treestuff as TEC only because "the stretch in that rope could potentially cause the Safebloc to come out of the sling in extreme...
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