Lock stitching larger tenex slings?

[B_Renton]

My larger tenex slings came lock stitched with some sort of fairly large yellow braided cord...Lots bigger than the yale stitching line I lock stitch my regular ropes with.

But I can't find any similar looking line for sale with the regular arborist splicing supplies.

What are folks using to lock stitch their larger (say 5/8 and larger) tenex splices with?

 

[itterada]

Do you happen to know where you got them from?

Edit: Atwood Rope Manufacturer makes some of the larger stuff we lock-stitch with, and LFS (LFSmarineoutdoor.com) sells most diameters of Powers Twine, although if you get black be careful not to get the tarred kind.

Ian

 

[Jman]

If you have extra throwline laying around that works well with larger sized ropes. Most throwlines are around 1.5mm to 2.2mm and have a breaking strength of 450-1000lbs.(dynaglide is 1000lbs). Also you can take some of the scraps of the taper and use a few of the pieces to lock stitch them. You're not going to get a continuous fiber that will do the entire lock stitch but you can use two or three and make sure they get tied together. There are quite a few different method for lock stitching posted here on the boards if you look back though the archives.

You can hit up the major manufactures for different directions, new england ropes, samsom, yale. They all have directions for lock stitching on their sites.

It doesn't have to be pretty just function. From my understanding it does not do much for the strength of the splice just makes sure it does not back out under low loads.

Hope this helps.

 

[B_Renton]

These are from Wesspur.

 

[itterada]

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These are from Wesspur.

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Oh perfect, then I can tell you with certainty that we use Powers Braided Twine #18. We get ours from LFS (like I mentioned above) but I'm sure some resourceful googling would yield results as well.

 

[evo]

For tenex whoopie slings I've used a pair of boot laces that I bought for replacements that wound up being too short for the boots, or just a few single stitches from the left overs from the taper... It's MY interpretation that the locking brummel takes most the load, and the stitching is there just to hold the bury in place while not under load...