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    Soft shackles

    I love my Big Dans for rigging. They're easy to put on and remove. The mbs is over 21,000 pounds. They're also heavy. I make and use soft shackles for sailing. Lots of advantages. The dyneema they're made from is super strong. A 3/8 inch strand has an mbs of over 19,000 pounds, and weighs...
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    Canopy Pants

    Reach, it was a joke. Maybe a really, really bad one, but a joke. It's "available" in coal, driftwood, etc.
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    Canopy Pants

    I would think coal would be heavy and driftwood pretty stiff. I guess I'd have to go with olive! Is there a typo on the price? I would think with all those wonderful features, they'd sell for $15,000.
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    Covid Close To You

    Very interesting. He's giving stats in a way I've always tried to find but couldn't easily parse through the data. Absolute vs relative benefit are WAY different animals. I'm going to do some more investigation of the data on my own in the future before I hold out my arm!
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    Covid Close To You

    I got the flu shot and bivalent COVID booster, then went kite boarding in big wind and waves the next day for about 4 hours. I felt a little tired after that.
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    Tying climb lines together

    I've got a 12" eye splice in the end of my 3-strand that makes for easy connections. I've been using a Big Dan to connect to my smash line, but that's a hefty chunk of steel. If I'm pushing the limits of my rope puller, it makes me nervous about a steel projectile coming at me. I'm wondering if...
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    Class I splice for Class II rope

    I had Arbsession do a break test for me. The result was about 70 percent of the single strand ABS. I know one test doesn't mean much, but for the application I'm dealing with it's way above what I need. I was very pleased with the result. It's stronger than a knot.
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    Class I splice for Class II rope

    Completing the bury and having it look decent are the main problems. I've been working with 3/8 inch EnduraBraid.
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    Class I splice for Class II rope

    Correct.
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    Today....

    18 loads of steel? It must be a big entrance and valuable cave! It's been over 40 years since I worked on a cave gating project. I'm curious about what the latest version of a gate design is like.
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    Quality Control on Purchased Splice

    Hmm. I thought 8-strand was a hollow braid where the recommended splice would have been a brummel with the tail buried. Not the first time I was wrong. Hard to tell from the photos, but is this a hollow braid and could a brummel have been used?
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    Today....

    Good thing you did a base anchor!
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    Don't Bee this Guy

    Do you think they were really bees, or maybe hornets or wasps? My wife calls any flying insect with a stinger a "bee". Does this sound like "beehavior" to you guys?
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    Today....

    Or maybe park the van next to a tree with a lot of strong suckers? Congrats!
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    Knot a splice but a bend

    Good. I screwed up. The knot I made wasn't like the one Harken had supplied. I need to take a closer look. Sorry.
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    Knot a splice but a bend

    The owner of the sailboat I crew on got a small block from Harken. It had a knotted loop of cord to be used to attach the block to a fairlead. The block gets plenty of load on it when in use, but bounces around a bit when unloaded. The Harken folks recommended to us that we use the knot that...
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    13 Lives

    I'm a little late on this one, but I just watched this movie. It's the best movie I've seen in a long time. I'm a former cave diver, so it really resonated with me. I think it would hit home with anybody who has ever been involved in a complex rescue. It's based on the rescue of the soccer team...
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    Weekend Tree Reading

    Nope. I like turning pages that are made of paper.
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    helmets are dumb.

    Has anybody on this forum NOT been hit by falling dead branches? I've been hit twice hard enough to remember. Once on the top of the helmet and once on the top of my shoulder. Both knocked me to my knees. I had to replace the helmet, but fortunately did not have to replace my shoulder.
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    Wedgin' n jackin'

    Thanks for the info. The work I do is usually for trees less than 100 ft. I also put a redirect block in the direction I want the tree to fall, and double back toward me. I use a rope puller for the MA and have it set up a safe distance/location from the base of the tree. It DOES take some time...

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