what's in your rigging bags?! Show em up !

Thinking more about it adding a prussic with ring to a double ring is good. . The dead eye is the best way to go either way. I gotta learn how to splice for sure... The price for that double ring dead eye from t.s. is real good deal. Could add a ring in a butterfly or prussik one on for different configurations over crotches with dead eye. I've always used dead eyes personally on blocks ,now I'm on rings soo its natural progression... Got the old fart beast whoopie for all the different options it makes ,but find I use it chunkin mostly.limited in diameter a few times:( ..don't like limitations such as.The limitations are I need another something heavy duty that can be untied (deadeye) while trapped on the line for moving ring or 3:1 rigging that matches the strength of the 3/4 whoopie..may have to breakdown and buck up.. Ben.... I never thought that I was jealous....maybe ..ostentatious and overornate sounds more like me. Wow , I'm fucked.
 
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You guys really feel the need to run 3 beast rings tho? Doesn't seem over excessive?
I've used 3/4" db lines outta two beast rings, seemed like a fine bend radius in my opinion, saying that knowing that it's not a very long experienced one. But I was comfortable with it.
But I stayed at safe weights because I know my sling was probably the weak point in the system, being a beast ring on 9/16 rope and a beast prussic one 1/2 db samson. That rope only gets used for big logs with no running room.
 
bonner1040 said:
In fact I believe the effective bend radius of one ring is the same as three rings.
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My thoughts exactly... it seems to me that three rings doesn't increase the radius at all... it simply bends the rope in two places (that are further apart than with one ring) at the same radius as a single ring.
3 rings would, however, add more friction... if that's what you want.
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
Doesn't seem over excessive?
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yes and no, euc timber is bloody heavy and I have seen up close and personal what can occur with a tight bend radius versus a stressed rope.
my 2 cents is that if a bollard is better than a portawrap due to the increase in the bend radius and the friction dissipation then the same logic applies at the lowering point.

if I do not have the bollard at the base then I will apply the bend at the lowering point and the three rings do create a beautiful radius for the rope to run through.
end of the day it is viewers choice as to the how and when.
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
Ben what is that thing and how do you set it up? I dig that thing. And I get my rings from the same guy, who knew.
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it is a whoopie sling with two beasts on one end and one beast on a adjustable leg facing the opposite way that I girth around on to its self using the adjustable leg to match the trunk dia.
I tried this before seeing the boomslang after I got the Xrings from that guy at Xtreme arborists, you know the one....
if I did it again I would try the oceans style of splicing the rings into the tenex, would like to know how that style is holding up in the field?
 
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