And who says hand splices aren't safe...

[alex_m]

Good video cheers! Although i'll stick to a fishermans for my eye to eye cord (££££)

[Dak]

doesn't cost anything to splice your own e2e's!

 

[alex_m]

very true. i would like to get on one of nod's workshops at some point.

[son of a birch]

Cheers guys glad you like it,

 

It failed in the knot, core was majorly glazed/melted at failure point.

 

I'll dissect the splice and see whats happened there.

 

So is a knot failure a case of "heat" failure, ie the rope burned through, rather than a "breaking strength" failure (fibres simply snapping) ?

[Dak]

Cover snapped and core snapped but heat generated through knot tightening and strands stretching caused the glazing/melt. I assume anyway!

[Paul Cleaver]

doesnt suprise me - no strength loss in a splice - when I went to collage many years ago we were taught knots reduce the strength by upto 50% except a bowline which is considerably less.

This was 25yrs ago mind

 

I would like to know if there are any new knots since this time, that are better on strength?

[atree]

Nice one.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Even a less than perfect splice will be stronger than ANY knot you can tie that is not too bulky, theres a few knots we use in big game/braided lines that reduce the issues with dyneemas etc but youll never ever in a zillion years beat a splice, period.

 

If you take the time to look there is plenty of research out there on knots and ropes and if you take the time, youll be binning knots for terminations!

[Paul Cleaver]

5 tucks minimum recommended if I remember right

[DrewB]

A less than perfect splice is a splice that should be cut off- and may very well be weaker than a knot. Through the test we've done the fishermans has always choked the rope to point of cutting through itself-but modern ropes are so strong that even this is something that I wouldn't worry about. But I agree with tony,get stuff spliced properly and bin the knots!!!