My splicing attempts

[Tommy_B]

[Tommy_B]

Might have to bust out the splicing kit. Been a while! 

[Tommy_B]

Little tight eye.

Drop me your email @silky fox if you want those videos. I keep forgetting 

[Rich Rule]

Nice splice on a naughty rope.

 

This popped up in my FB timeline last week...

 

Snap!

 

 

[Tommy_B]

Lad dropped it off today, he got 25m for 30quid. Lucky chap

[Rich Rule]

I have a 60m Hank of Cougar Orange.  Great for the bigger trees due to lack of bounce.

Works great with my rope runners.  Never got it going the Akimbo though.  

 

[jfc]

I have tried a couple of times to splice teufel hi vee, and failed. Tried using selma fids and a homemade wire fid. Any suggestions?

[Tommy_B]

15 minutes ago, jfc said:

I have tried a couple of times to splice teufel hi vee, and failed. Tried using selma fids and a homemade wire fid. Any suggestions?

What part are you struggling with? There is definitely a few things you can do to make it a bit easier

[Tommy_B]

First of all, Daisy chain the core, makes it a lot easier when you're working with it and most of it gets cut off anyway

[Tommy_B]

@jfc

 

Don't try to do the cover bury in one go either. Do it in at least 2. I put a crab in the eye and anchor off the cover once I've done the first stage to set the eye right, then go back to the fid for the second stage.

 

Make sure the eye doesn't twist either so it still looks nice.

 

Use a wire fid as well for all of it. Much easier. Hi Vee has a very loose strand construction so just be careful when you use the fid and make sure you don't part any by accident.

 

Exit the fid, just before the core strands come out and on the opposite side. Pull on the core to bunch up the cover and to help keep the core strands in place. You really dont want to go through one. 

 

I've got 16 strand down to the point that I don't need to go outside and anchor it off to a tree to run it home. I just do it inside. 

 

My favourite part of all splicing is drawing in the cover and the core on a 16 strand splice but I'm a bit of a geek