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I own double braid spliced deadeyes because they came to me with other gear. I’d never buy one. Put the thing in a bight of a plain length and knot with both legs. Twice as strong, wear point moves around, saves splice cost. Or like you say, at least use something where you can see the splice is still good.

I'd imagine it's a bit of both for dead eyes. From my personal experience I don't like double braid splices for dead eyes. Ive blown a splice out on an 18mm dead eye with a piece that cant have weighed more than 500kg. A locked brummel in hollow braid rope seems more appropriate for shock loading in my opinion.

Thank christ that’s over for another year. I’ve got two pheasants in the freezer. I’m giving them to my parents’ dog.

Concur. Possibly why I semi forgot that answer. I also might have thought it wasn’t very good. I assume strop ones are long so you can girth hitch a portawrap on. Neat but loses strength (important or not but it still does). There might be some martitime use requirement that we don’t know about?

I read/heard somewhere that the extra rope in the eye was to mitigate the increased potential for shock loading. I can't really see how an extra foot or so of relatively static rope would make much if a difference though

This man saved lives when terrorists struck on London Bridge, he received multiple stab wounds while saving people, yet he's had no, or little recognition. I wonder if it's to do with his reputation?

Thanks to @green heart I have been converted - the Echo DCS2500 style clips are nice for high clipping and stowing the saw, so I've made a few for my saws. I decided theres no need for the lanyard to have a massive girth hitched loop, as the clip removes from the saw easily enough. This makes it slightly longer, less bulky and easier to clip. Its not the neatest thing as I was learning how to use sewing machine. This Stein lanyard gained a tight biner eye. It came with a twisted loop on the saw end so I cut one side and sewed it as a flat loop (hand sewn whipping twine for the strength). Not pretty but its strong enough. On the clone I have this longer green lanyard. It didnt come with a stowing ring so a while back, I added one. Today I added whipping twine to sew a tight eye at the saw end. Set up sewing machine to stitch the huge loop flat.

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It felt springy on the last shoot (31st January). My mate, albeit in a gloomy mood, remarked that did it fjuck (but a couple of moments later confessed he’d just seen a daffodil tip). Generally easy winter I’d say. Last year was cold (slippery and frozen water for fowl) and the one before was that cold rain that dragged on forever. I particularly remember a particular act of desperation of going on the airport website to see if I could fly somewhere warm, like now.

Crocadills and daffadrops out round here . Is something just round the corner ?

Hard and unenjoyable watching but interesting subject. Who uses these day-to-day?

@AHPP I have tried to look it up and I have asked a few shops too... @Mick Dempsey Thats odd, I've asked them before about having a larger splice to fit some climbing item, but I didnt order it.. they said it was ok.

Does he screen it first and just rechip the oversize? Is there also a shredder in his yard? Can’t imagine chipping stuff ‘tree surgeons’ have tipped unchipped - a good way to wreck a machine quickly!

I think it’s more that a climbing line HAS to have a tight splice. I asked HBs to splice a climbing line with a big splice and it arrived with a mouse’s ear.

Good question. Don’t know to a certainty. Did find out a while ago but answer obviously wasn’t important enough to remember. It might be slightly more shock absorbent with a bit more length in the eye? Possibly convention for if you’ve got a connector with a bigger bend radius spliced in. Or some kind of hard eye. Possibly even a hangover from such a convention, that now just tells you it’s a rigging rope rather than a tight-eyed climbing rope. Right. Look it up. See how close I was.

Yeah very easy to splice 3 strand. That brings an unrelated question. If one looks in shops at rigging ropes, all of the spliced onces have very large eyes - much bigger than a biner. Whats the intended purpose or reasoning? @AHPP ? The reason I ask, I might splice one end of this, One end for biner and slings, other end for knotting. Any reason not to be a normal small eye like a climbing rope?

If you arrived to me and my motor was unfixable and your tablet didn't give you the option of booking recovery, but customer has it on policy, would you phone in or is it policy to get them to phone the office and leave them to it.

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One of his videos, was about mending chipper once a hammer head went through it. Re chipping is a waste of time I would of thought just put it on muck heap and spread it later. I am surprised you took a chipper there.

I,v been a rac patrol for 38 years its not like it was in the early years im glad iv only 2 years to retire

Some tree lads dump chip there too, but it is usually really stringy and he re chips that!

My 3 year old and 1 year old having a rest bless em

We as a people need to wind the clock back on legwear. Greaves, puttees etc.

It’s not great for holding a knot when it’s not under pressure, but splicing in a krab is 30 seconds work. It coils fine once it’s been properly used and stretched, then it loses its manufacturing ‘memory’