eyehearttrees
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I've been happy with some false crotches I made by taking 10' lengths of my blue moon climb-line and cinching-down onto O-rings, but after watching some videos of splicing it just looks so damn easy that I can't help wonder what the 'general concensus' is on it, also which type(s) of rope I should try it on (for instance I have some webbing slings that are ~10mm triple-braid that I made in a 'knot-noose' setup to choke a limb, I'd like to splice / make-eyes with these as well but no idea if there's any carryover in technique between a triple-strand and any of the double-braids - also unsure if one type is worthwhile for the home-tinkerer to mess with and the other is not!) In hindsight I'd thought "I wish I had them cut-off and sew several custom-lengths of my line" but at $25 for each sewn eye it just adds up fast so if all it takes is a day-off to learn this (have seen as much in a youtube, have no idea how representative of reality that is though!!) then I wanna make a fid and get practicing asap, I'd always assumed that splicing involved sewing I didn't know it was just fiddling the inner&outer braiding around & milking it in-place to get a fixed-eye, if I could do this at-home I'd be happy as a pig in slop 
Thanks!!
PS I had a couple other Q's on rope, firstly is whether or not anyone could compare adrenaline with blue moon, I have the latter and have the idea to get a hank of adrenaline, at which point I'm hoping it's OK to consider my blue moon as a rigging-line, at least lighter-rigging, I don't mean a tree-top or giant limbs just stuff I'd get with my 10" saw...thought to be honest I get the impression it'd be very very suitable for most moderate-sized drops as well, it's not ultra-static (2.5% stretch @10%mbs) and when I picture the force-loading in a regular block-dropping rig setup or *especially* when the rope's got side-pull with slack in a speedline setup, I'd imagine the rope is able to 'soak up' a ton of energy and that your realistic fail-points are going to be your slings or the ropes' anchoring-point(s) and not the actual line breaking, would love to hear thoughts on this! I feel my blue moon and feel like you could setup a zipline for people that'd be OK for heavier guys, am sure it's breaking the 1/10th safety margin and not saying I've got plans on doing that of course am just hoping to understand relative strengths a bit more, actually have the HSE rigging document PDF on a thumbdrive to have printed-out, along with ANSI stuff, any recommendations on other stuff to print-out for my '3 ring reference-guide' would be appreciated!
Thanks!!
PS I had a couple other Q's on rope, firstly is whether or not anyone could compare adrenaline with blue moon, I have the latter and have the idea to get a hank of adrenaline, at which point I'm hoping it's OK to consider my blue moon as a rigging-line, at least lighter-rigging, I don't mean a tree-top or giant limbs just stuff I'd get with my 10" saw...thought to be honest I get the impression it'd be very very suitable for most moderate-sized drops as well, it's not ultra-static (2.5% stretch @10%mbs) and when I picture the force-loading in a regular block-dropping rig setup or *especially* when the rope's got side-pull with slack in a speedline setup, I'd imagine the rope is able to 'soak up' a ton of energy and that your realistic fail-points are going to be your slings or the ropes' anchoring-point(s) and not the actual line breaking, would love to hear thoughts on this! I feel my blue moon and feel like you could setup a zipline for people that'd be OK for heavier guys, am sure it's breaking the 1/10th safety margin and not saying I've got plans on doing that of course am just hoping to understand relative strengths a bit more, actually have the HSE rigging document PDF on a thumbdrive to have printed-out, along with ANSI stuff, any recommendations on other stuff to print-out for my '3 ring reference-guide' would be appreciated!
