If it had broken, I would be happy with the results and moved on, but now the bury needs to be longer, or a larger diameter to maybe get better results, more testing needed now.
Forgot to post the tight eye picture!
The brummel wouldn’t fit inside the cover on Xstatic, I made the eye a little large to be able to seize it for a tight eye, then put on the shrink tubing.
I got my sample back, the bury pulled out, no breaking. The outside of the tail melted slightly, and there is a melted trail where it...
The first stage of the cover bury was a little difficult at first, the core strands would bunch up and needed to be pulled frequently to straighten them back out. Got smart on the last one, held the eye and stepped on the rope below the bury and kept it stretched while easily pulling the fid...
Right, the locked brummel is just above the throat in the bottom of the eye.
The two above didn’t have true locking, the strands came out, wrapped around, and were buried. The one I sent in has the strands going through both sides of the cover after wrapping around, and then buried. I do the...
Interesting, the weak link was the reduced core in the eye. Doing the math, your stronger splice retained 57% of the ropes break strength, Marlow’s average is 57.6%, from their website.
I’ve been trying to come up with an easier method instead of just the brute force of pulling the bury...
Briefly grabbing the string just after the bag has reached the target branch, makes it stop and start to wrap around the branch, releasing the string at the right time can bring the ball back at you.
Not an SRT method, but gets you up the tree, fairly quickly, without the branch strength worries.
No, I haven’t spliced that one, have been meaning to get some since it first came out. If no bumps or thin areas, probably as strong, percentage wise.
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the best way to splice this type of rope with Marlow’s method, is to tension the core strands at the...