Eye-n-Eye or Split tail Poll

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pancake

pancake

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I need a quick sample, researching for an article this spring. I apperciate any of your responses in advance. Do you use a Eye n Eye or single eye split tail system? Eye-n-Eye refers to a split tail w/2 spliced eyes and Split tail would be a split tail w/1 eye. If you tie in with your climbing line, please choose split tail. Thanks for the correction Mahk.
 
Re: Eye-in-Eye or Split tail Poll

ummm...its eye-n-eye, short for eye-and-eye (because there are two eyes).


And an eye-n-eye is a split tail.

Do you mean an eye-n-eye (a two-eye split tail) vs. a single eye split tail?
 
Re: Eye-in-Eye or Split tail Poll

You say tomato... Which do you use. You have the picture Mahk- a split tail with 2 spliced eyes or a split tail with 1 eye. If you tie in using your climbing line I am looking for a split tail answer. I take it an edit is in order for clarity purposes! Thanks Mak and Nick, my first poll!
 
Re: Eye-in-Eye or Split tail Poll

I switched from a single eye Blakes to a 2 eye VT a few months ago. I still use a Blakes with a traditional (no split tail) when I double crotch with the other end of my line.
 
Re: Eye-in-Eye or Split tail Poll

Mmmmmm........


VT or X-VT




Or Machohican, or some other kind of hitch...eye-n-eye is the way to go!


Blakes on split tail is so 1999.



SZ
 
Re: Eye-in-Eye or Split tail Poll

Familytree, I'm using "traditional" in the Tree Climbers Companion sense...meaning no split tail, you just use the tail of your rope.

Funny EZ-P...I DID climb on blakes on a split in 1999!!!

love
nick
 
In a traditional climbing system,
the climbing line is tied to a connector
(usually a locking snap), and a long tail is
left in the knot. This tail is then used to tie
the climbing hitch on the fall, or standing
part, of the climbing line.

In the split-tail system, the climbing line
is attached to the connector using an appropriate
endline knot or an eyesplice. The climbing hitch is tied using a short, separate piece of rope called a split-tail. The split-tail may have only one eye--the eye is attached to a carabiner and the tail is used to tie a climbing hitch to the fall of the climbing line. Or the split tail may have two eyes--the split tail is used to tie a climbing hitch and both eyes are attached to a carabiner.


Adapted from pages 2-3 of this article:

http://www.treebuzz.com/pdf/climbing_hitches.pdf

See the sections titled 'Open Hitches' and 'Closed Hitches'.
 
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