How many people have ever broken a double braid rigging rope?

[Treerover]

Ok, born off the back of a recent post.....how many people have broken a relatively healthy double braid rigging rope in the field?

I'm not talking winching out the Land Rover with a Matbro bogged up to it's axles...but genuine 'relatively ' well thought out rigging scenarios that have pushed the calculations a smidge too far and resulted in a broken rigging rope *.

* I repeat....a healthy double braid

[Sambo]

On 16/12/2018 at 19:56, Treerover said:

 

Ok, born off the back of a recent post.....how many people have broken a relatively healthy double braid rigging rope in the field?

I'm not talking winching out the Land Rover with a Matbro bogged up to it's axles...but genuine 'relatively ' well thought out rigging scenarios that have pushed the calculations a smidge too far and resulted in a broken rigging rope *.

* I repeat....a healthy double braid

 

It can only take an unforseen edge or stub to severely damage a rope even the strongest rope under tension! Two ropes rubbing over each other (I.E. rigging rope over the lifeline!!) can do it!! 

[Treerover]

I appreciate HOW it can be done, my question is more how many people have ACTUALLY done it ?

[MattyF]

I have broken a few hanks of Yale polydyn neg rigging hard wood years ago... bits where far too big and the groundy not experienced too many wraps.

[Pete Mctree]

2 hours ago, MattyF said:

I have broken a few hanks of Yale polydyn neg rigging hard wood years ago... bits where far too big and the groundy not experienced too many wraps.

Same, but was using double estelron

[Steve Bullman]

Nope never.  However I rarely rig too big.  That rope is pretty damm strong though, it would need to be a combination of a few different things for it to fail 

[Luckyeleven]

Ive broken 12mm sirius with a 1.6tonne tirfor

[herco]

Yale 16mm, bearely  used snapped twice 

Yale blue 22mm? Onze

12mm bull rope ca 8 times. 

In most of the cases pretensioned by pour homemade  grcs.

Somtimes it was shokload sometimes  overloaded system.

[Joe Newton]

7 hours ago, MattyF said:

I have broken a few hanks of Yale polydyn neg rigging hard wood years ago... bits where far too big and the groundy not experienced too many wraps.

 Bloody hell mate you must really have been trying!

[MattyF]

The one that sticks in my mind joe was about 5ft long and about 3-4ft”across , was probably one of the tightest grained ash I’ve felled as I estimated it around 120 before felling ,the final ring count really surprised me as it was around 230! That’s all I remember of the job and my groundy putting 5 wraps off for this lump so it would not run and snapped the rope on the snatch.