Naturarbo
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thoughts on this
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KentuckySawyer
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Not one of Giorgio's rings, but there are a myriad of uses for those thimbles. Let your imagination run wild...
Naturarbo
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in the back there is a traditional 38/28 in the bottom one bit wider
Helmstein
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I have that Fiori ring and I girth hitch it onto a 5/8th tufelberger t-rex line. We love it and rig all the heavy wood with it. It allows for some margin of error when taking wraps on the porty. Any questions please ask.
Had it about two years. We only use pullys for pulling or lifting. Rings for dropping/rigging.
Had it about two years. We only use pullys for pulling or lifting. Rings for dropping/rigging.
Naturarbo
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do you ever combine 2 or more rings?
does that combo change at all bend radius?
does that combo change at all bend radius?
evo
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- My Island, WA
Way back in the archives there are some points made that say no.. it pretty much settled as the bend radius only was spread out but the same.
If you consider the condensing of the rope on the inside of the bend vs the stretching of the outside half of the rope on the outside of the bend, the stress partly arises from how short a region it occurs over. With two rings you give a tiny straight stretch between two curves and some of the compression/stretch stress gets an opportunity to bleed out into the straight area, so there's a tiny reduction of crumpling the rope fibers in the bends. Put a number on it - your guess is as good as mine. But the basic bollard effect friction - I've done the math in the SRT basal tie forces thread and it comes out the same in the wash, two rings or one ring. It was the redirect analysis. Plug in 90 degrees at the tip and 90 degrees at the redirect.
that seems like quite a thin line for heavy wood. i use 5/8th tenex tex with one large x-ring for redirects, speedlines (wood), maybe light negative rigging. seems to me that the fiori ring starts making sense when 1 inch tenex for your anchor sling is not enough..
