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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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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.

Try ecocomach ( not sure about spelling) or case they did a 2.7 triple

I would suggest that this is an issue/ It looks like the glue that seals the welch plug is failing. You could try using some super glue to reseal it but you need to dry and degrease it and use the glue very sparingly so it doesn't seep down inside the plug. Something like thick gorilla glue is good. I've tried this bodge on a few plugs and it seems to have worked.

Climb line splices are generally tighter to keep the splice somewhat captive on a carabiner. There is no benefit for a large eye. Most decent manufacturers use a "thin splice" to aid in installation of non mid line attachable devices (ZIG-ZAG) and for the effective retrieval through modern cambium adverts where the traditional double braid splice would interfere. As far as the regs go, they need to meet the relevant EN criteria

The deal was that they got proper stuff in but alas, it is tip site! One that had various chip truck, 4x4 and trailers dump and go.

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Interesting question, Ill ask a couple of rope manufactures. I always presumed that it was more difficult to make a small eye splice therefore more expensive. I don't know if there are any regs on the size of a spliced eye on PPE climbing lines as they all seem to be very tight.

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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.

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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

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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 ?