Show off them splices

Friedrich said:
that is a situation where a brummel would be good, that bury is way too short for a straight bury…
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I agree, but we'll see. I'm keen to have that tail not be an entire meter long, and I have seen extremely short buries hold well enough for my purposes. It is a fid length bury, and it's "double stuffed" so the throat quite tight to begin with

 
a soft-fid definitly helped getting the cover trough, made by d-splicer. supposedly this splice is’nt very strong. i‘ve heard of people getting about 3500 lbs… barely enough for life support in europe (splice needs to break at or higher than 15 kn)
 
I just reviewed that video I posted, and it's pretty embarrassingly bad, but the long and short of it is that I think I put at least 4k, probably closer to 5k lbs of force on that eye and it didn't seem like it was even close to what it would hold. I don't intend for it to see anywhere close to that much force ever again.
 
Interesting. From the video, I'm curious why you pulled from a "wide" angle? It looks like the angle of the line hooked to your come along was about 90 degrees or so. At that angle (or wider) you start to put a lot more force on the pulling line than on the sling/stump you were pulling. When I set up a 2:1 MA on my Maasdam rope puller (giving me a theoretical 20:1), I try to keep that angle as small as I can do safely. (I don't like pulling trees/stumps/branches/etc straight toward me). Making the angle wider decreases the MA on the stump. Not much of a decrease until the angle starts to get around 90 degrees. Much more than 90 and the loss of pull gets dramatic.
 
dmonn said:
Interesting. From the video, I'm curious why you pulled from a "wide" angle? It looks like the angle of the line hooked to your come along was about 90 degrees or so. At that angle (or wider) you start to put a lot more force on the pulling line than on the sling/stump you were pulling. When I set up a 2:1 MA on my Maasdam rope puller (giving me a theoretical 20:1), I try to keep that angle as small as I can do safely. (I don't like pulling trees/stumps/branches/etc straight toward me). Making the angle wider decreases the MA on the stump. Not much of a decrease until the angle starts to get around 90 degrees. Much more than 90 and the loss of pull gets dramatic.
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I wanted to make sure that if I was super wrong, and the splice was going to fail, that the block would get launched in an acceptable direction, and definitely not back at me. Had limited options for an ideal test bed. I also didn't need to hit 2:1 to achieve the desired force, and this angle provided the required augmentation of the pulling power.
 
Another baby toy. Tachyon and Vortex.

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