rigging plate

KevinS

KevinS

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I have a steel rigging plate with 3 holes along the top and 5 along the bottom. I often run my rigging line up the tree through the block and back down where I tie a biner to my rope and clip on the plate, pretty standard. I usually use one biner in the top middle hole for balance, would there be any benefit to using 2 biners 1 on each end whole and tying off with a larger bowline(or something).

I've been looking at cranes, spider legs etc. and they use 2 legs coming down on 45 degree angles or longer. I am aware that these are usually 2 slings or a rope and a spider leg and this is all 1 line. 2 biners in a bowline could role and angles change. So I could just be asking a dumb question but has anyone run a system like that?
 
I like tying my dmm rigging plate directly to rigging line with two dead eye slings girthed on either side for rigging long limbs or multiple limbs at a time ..I always make a UFO sighting noise when we fly it and we call it the flying saucer:cool:
 
Aaron Cipolletti said:
I like tying my dmm rigging plate directly to rigging line with two dead eye slings girthed on either side for rigging long limbs or multiple limbs at a time ..I always make a UFO sighting noise when we fly it and we call it the flying saucer:cool:
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Eye to eyes work great but I'm thinking of making some 1/2" tenex whoopies in a straight pull they're strong and work smooth for adjustments.
 
Not sure I understand the orientation with whoopie.. I'm usaully trying to avoid biners in my rigging ,so if you have to adjust sling ,choke limb and clip to biner I don't think that could be as efficient as whipping a hitch around limb ...?
 
You cow hitch the dead eye and biner the adjustable eye to the plate so it can be adjusted any time with no choking.

But if you are avoiding biners each sling would have one so it wouldn't work for your system.
 
Cool vid tony I enjoyed it..I did say I usually avoid biners but I do have a couple rigging lines with eye splice or tight eye with binder.. which I use in in thick trees with lots of branches ..choke a bunch of limbs with loop runners and let em fly .. Way faster all around than tying and untying knots .. Soon as the lines back up clip and cut .
 
Aaron Cipolletti said:
Cool vid tony I enjoyed it..I did say I usually avoid biners but I do have a couple rigging lines with eye splice or tight eye with binder.. which I use in in thick trees with lots of branches ..choke a bunch of limbs with loop runners and let em fly .. Way faster all around than tying and untying knots .. Soon as the lines back up clip and cut .
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Thanks! I am with you there. The beauty of "knotless" rigging is the turnaround time. Another great benefit is you do not have to tie/untie knots in a rope. This may sound silly, but you really notice it when the air temperature is single digits! You can leave those heavy gloves on!

Tony
 
Tony said:
Thanks! I am with you there. The beauty of "knotless" rigging is the turnaround time. Another great benefit is you do not have to tie/untie knots in a rope. This may sound silly, but you really notice it when the air temperature is single digits! You can leave those heavy gloves on!

Tony
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With knotless rigging do the spliced eyes last as long as the rest of the line since they're used every time?
 
No more wear and tear than on the end of an unspliced rigging line. The problem comes when you don't want the splice then it gets in the way. I just use the opposite end in that scenario. I prefer long eye splices that I can girth hitch. That also seems to "lesson" the wear.

Tony
 
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