MorExperimentinGoing on w/me, a bit:
I tried cable-hauling tape--an increasingly popular bit of cordage
in our GetWired days--, which is 1/2" wide, thin, very flexible,
and of lubricated polyester (you can feel the lube on fingers after
handling it); 1800# tensile is a common rating (same for a thinner
version of Kevlar--uncommon). (NEPCO & another maker, at least.)
A sling in this held well with my loading a cruddy 5-to-1 pulley
& 180# on THIN (4.5mm) wire rope.
Another method: with a tape sling, elongate it and roughly find the
mid-point, and wrap one (smaller) half around the wire toward the
haul, then counterwrap the other (larger--it's wrapping tape AND cable)
half; this was the instruction for some cable-hauling 4-armed strop,
as I recall (I remarked that rather than alternating over/under, it had
the arms wrap one at a time). Your sling's two bight ends will be what
you can attach to--hook, 'biner. This, too, holds well in cable-pulling tape;
and there's little distortion in the cable coming out of the hitch.
*** Oh, I should say that in wrapping esp. the inner spiral, I tried to keep
the bight of tape spread--i.e., laying on both sides to metal, not
one atop the other (doubling the width by wrapping with a bight). This
will give a longer, more nearly parallel helix angle. There were many
wraps.
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Yeah, I would think that a ultility pole cable would be relatively frictive,
and also would be straight--under tension throughout the hitch, not
with a loosEnd. (I'm kinda losin' my sense of personal & national security
to hear that a guy out apparently threatening to wreak havoc to our
electrical & telecommunications infrastructure ("Araya", closEnuff to A-rabic
this govt.'s work!) went unscathed by DHS. My confidence is shaken.)
*knudeNoggin*
