What do you use to tie off your rigging blocks?

[Joe Newton]

Like that. Looks pretty easy to splice up. You'd need about 2.5-3x the required length

[billpierce]

Would that still mean taking the block off every time you adjust?

 

 

[Joe Newton]

Yeah, but if you have spliced line then just pull the rope through the block, undo the sling, move down and repeat.

[Treerover]

Whoopie slings and 24mm split tail with a timber hitch for big stuff. My mate made me up a daisy chain in 24mm tenex...saves a lot of time resetting the block on vertical section rigging

That is a crackin’ idea [emoji1303][emoji1307]

[Joe Newton]

On 22/11/2017 at 20:13, josharb87 said:

Split-tail and a Shizll big spider, great little device 

If you can grab some pics of this setup that'd be great Josh, can't quite picture it. 

 

Can you only use 16mm line? I like to use 19mm on my dead eye

[TKO]

On 30/11/2017 at 19:19, Joe Newton said:

Yeah, but if you have spliced line then just pull the rope through the block, undo the sling, move down and repeat.

Every now and again I use the this technique but with a timber hitch. 

 

Pull the the line out, find the next position, stick the gob in, measure the deadeye round the stem, fold the line at that point, spin it, sling it round the stem, drop the pulley through the bight, pop the line in, tie it on, knock the lump off

 

Iv used Marlow whoopies in the past, but found that they were really susceptible to glazing.  

 

How do you guys find the tenex? Does it tend to glaze at the overlap points?

 

 I like the idea of a preset daisy chain, do you often find that your block sits quite low in comparison to the bottom of the gob due to lack of adjustability?

 

 

[Darrin Turnbull]

On ‎19‎/‎09‎/‎2017 at 22:02, Pete Mctree said:

Tenex dead eye. Tied with cow hitch or timber hitch.

 

On ‎19‎/‎09‎/‎2017 at 22:02, Pete Mctree said:

Tenex dead eye. Tied with cow hitch or timber hitch.

me to

[Rich Rule]

On 30/11/2017 at 20:19, Joe Newton said:

Yeah, but if you have spliced line then just pull the rope through the block, undo the sling, move down and repeat.

Or just use the eye in the woopie pass the block and a bit of the rope , both legs.  Adjust to size and pass the block back through.

 

personally I use dead eye and cow or timber...  or in reality is use whatever was on the block from the last job.

[Sambo]

On ‎25‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 17:42, arbogrunt said:

Whoopie slings and 24mm split tail with a timber hitch for big stuff. My mate made me up a daisy chain in 24mm tenex...saves a lot of time resetting the block on vertical section rigging

Why is it o hard to get hold of big Split-tails or multis slings at the moment? nobody seems to have much in stock! What's happened to Yale too?