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There is more material in the eye. As I wrote further up the page.

What’s the answer then, Rich? Why do rigging lines have bigger eyes?

Unidirectional ones?

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Was a very were few days and I've not seen this bit of Shepshed flooded so bad! Wonder if my garage flooded again - will find out later! At Retford so standard chores and a few we meant to do but was wet each weekend! Enjoy your day! Fillip, Bean, know.

I use multiple pulleys in winching scenarios more than I do in rigging.

Trip out into Oslo today. Needed to get some new snowboard boots so decided to get the ferry into the city and take the dog for a bit of a training trip. She was pretty good and chilled for the most part.

Doesn’t really matter the size mate. It is just a different measurement for the eye size when you are marking g and preparing the rope. The technique is pretty much identical.

Good morning It's not raining! Going to spend the day splitting, hopefully get rid of my winter paunch. Take care 5th. I had 14 metal pins through my leg like that on purpose mind. Tingly doesn't quite describe it. Have a super Sunday. More Rugby later!

Well, that doesn’t surprise me at all that you don’t believe what the industry has learned over god Know how many years. We should all bow down to your superior knowledge on this subject you have gained from 5 minutes of experience, A couple of inches would be for a small spice. A eye in a rigging line could be 9 inches that would mean at least 18” and some to form the loop and burry.

Topping saws? Completed it mate.

Morning all. Day off, gratefully received. Stayed the night in reekie on Friday night to help with a homer yesterday. Was an easy half day pruning fruit trees and a couple of small fells in good company. Nice to wake up at home with a quiet day to come though. Have a good one folks.

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The ground is desperate, can hardly walk around here. What river are you on Stubby?

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Good morning troops . Misty mildish at 7c . Saturated ground still . The river is a few inches from spilling over . Happy Sunday . 🙂

Marking ropes is not very precise to begin with but you learn the sizes for each rope and marking is seconds. I like to use thread instead of marker pen. A biner eye on 8-10mm prussik cord might be 62-65mm but 72-77mm on thicker climbing rope, if I remember. I've messed up a couple but so far eye sizes have been dead on. I had a lock stitching needle eye snap and get stuck in a splice, that caused some swearing. Cut it off and started again.

True but maybe you need to be more precise when splicing a smaller eye so it may take more time, I don't know. There are plenty of splicers in this forum. Maybe they can explain if its more difficult to splice to a specific size. If they do mess it up then that's a lot of wasted time and rope.

The process is exactly the same for any eye size, large just uses slightly more rope. I dont believe a couple of inches in the eye will make any difference for a rigging line.

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I think elm.

Can we talk about underrated bands in this thread too? Idlewild are excellent (and I think pretty well known) but don’t show the signs of conventional success. I’ve got YouTube videos with more views than them. Mick Dempsey has more followers on instagram. Make it make sense. I’d have given a kidney to be at the Iona show.

If the spliced eye on a rigging line is large. I was told the larger the eye the more material is available in the even of shock loading. Similar to a rigging system, the more rope the system the more stretch is available when it gets shock loaded. Large splices in dead eye slings are for similar reason. The added advantage is when uou cow hitch or tie off, the throat of the splice is not directly in the knot.

I understand the captive bit but some of them really tight! We've had the odd customer complain about it.