life expectancy for eye 2 eyes?

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When it comes to getting new gear, telling the wife it makes you safer is the best bet!

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Depends.......and check if there have been any big increases in the life insurance policy.
 
google Samson, new england, and yale rope. they all have splicing instruction available to download. Best to go to the manufacture site first then to another. pretty much they are the same instruction just displayed different. I prefer Samson but that's just me.
 
Three or four years ago New England Ropes was tweaking the HRC recipe to have an approved naked eye splice. They had a few runs of HRC with a really loose cover braid, there was some hemorrhaging as a result. The problem is solved and its a sweet hitch chord! Ice Tail with fisherman's knots would work but like Oceans said it would bind a lot. Being a hollow braid it would lay flatter than some other chords giving you much more friction/binding because of the increased surface area.
 
The HRC that hemmoraged on me scared me enough to not climb that naked eye splice again, I didn't take pictures, but the second tail that hemmoraged I opened the cover and looked at the splice. I wasn't impressed and a co worker with more splicing experience was not enthused either. The grizzly spliced HRC gives me a better piece of mind, but it doesn't matter, nothing seems to run or tend like tenex or ice for me.
 
I would put HRC right up there next to any other hitch cord. I haven't tried them all, for sure, and combinations can be limitless, but it sure is consistent, reliable and long lasting.

I just bought a 10mm OP based on Taylor's suggestions at the HCGTTC Workshop. Looking forward to trying it out in the real world.
 
It's stitched...
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Been loving the armor prus. Just got 2 months out of my first, which is pretty long for up here in pine country! I've tried a lot and the armor is my favorite by far, followed by ice tail (binding is an issue though).
 
Simplyarbor, what hitch are you tying, and what is the length E2E?

I see that Trevor has a new 9.1mm prusik from ArbPro.

Swing, I know buddy. Think I just paid for a couple stitched eyes and got some time with my family in return.
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Thanks, simplyarbor. That number of wraps and braids at that length may contribute to the binding...at least that's what I've found. I had a few shorter prusiks in the past and they usually gave me trouble. I need a minimum of 30" in 8mm, more so in 10mm. In fact, one of my tied HRC prusiks is 34" and I tie a 4/4 VT, but I run the legs through the upper biner as banjo showed me.
 
Wow see, everyone is so diffrent. I really like 27 inches of beeline with knots. Tenex needs to be a little bit longer. I keep going back to 8 mm beeline with knots. I dont really seem to wear em out, i end up usuing them for rigging in a pinch or tying sometging up with it. They last so long and they gett better with age. Hard to beat $6 a cord.
 
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Wow see, everyone is so diffrent. I really like 27 inches of beeline with knots. Tenex needs to be a little bit longer. I keep going back to 8 mm beeline with knots. I dont really seem to wear em out, i end up usuing them for rigging in a pinch or tying sometging up with it. They last so long and they gett better with age. Hard to beat $6 a cord.

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I like 8mm beeline ( 30" ) also Bing and it does last long but I use different hitch cords every day I climb ( like mixing it up ). I find hitch selection and prussic length will vary greatly on the weight of the climber.
 
I always feel like hitches are like snow flakes. no two hitches are exactly alike from day to day to day. I love it about hitches that they really can not be exactly quantified.
 
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