My splicing attempts

[Peter]

You can have a fiddle with my toss wand next time your up here if you want.

[High Scale]

Buy one from Nod.

 

Having said that, I dont use a fid at all for double braid, toss wand all the way.

 

I use my Toss just for 16 strand and just for the first stage of the bury.

[john dawson]

You can have a fiddle with my toss wand next time your up here if you want.

 

steady on tiger!!

[john dawson]

to be honest chaps, get your splicing stuff from nod. best place around! theres now a dedicated section on Tree Climbing Equipment Online Shop - Treeworker.co.uk - Home

 

a toss wand is the best way, rather than a shed-load of fids, its one-size-fits-all.

 

the piano-wire fid is fantastic, and is specialy made and designed by nod (legend!) its the only place youl get one.

 

Blimey! i should be on commission for this!

[Mesterh]

Whoever comes up with a method for marking black ropes will be my personal hero!

 

Ive seen metal merchants using a white marker on steel, dunno if it will be any good for rope or what even type of marker it is.

 

All in all a fairly useless post by me then.

[Peter]

French chalk, not much good for ropes no.

[Tree Man Tom]

French chalk, not much good for ropes no.

 

Would tipp-ex be any good?

[High Scale]

With black ropes I have used a stitch of twine as a marker, you can take it out as you do the splice but the cover taper I just count and pull the strands as I go.

 

Yes, it is a nightmare.

[High Scale]

Would tipp-ex be any good?

 

It's a solvent based product, I think that may not be a good idea although the amounts would be tiny.

Edited July 13, 2010 by High Scale
Er, hmm.

[Tree Man Tom]

It's a solvent based product, I think that may not be a good idea although the amounts would be tiny.

 

I did wonder that, but like you say the amounts you use would be very small.