High Scale

I've been messing with the Courant/Cousin type splice on Tachyon, the only rope I have to hand. For the luls . .

My Mrs had one kid in school yesterday. We have got highway safety work, so going in.

I need to insure my chipper but am no longer a company, I have tried JBC insurance but they can't provide cover for a non company, any ideas?

May actually encourage them to turn them off occasionally.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing with regard to misleading information. Big smiley face.

It's not an interesting point though is it? Banal is the word you're looking for.

I'd fogotten how many fucking idiots there are in this industry. Legislation kills common sense.

Including custom Pulley saver, you won't see many of these.

It could have invisible whipping, ie hidden under the cover braids but that would be unusual, although I think Shizll do this, as whipping distortion is a good indicator of high loading.

Do you have a picture of the whipping. Sirus is very easy to pull out if not stitched properly, low repeated loads like you have been doing will cause slippage. This is the third sling I've seen online like this. It's better to have a slightly loose eye and whipping/stitching when splicing rings, not enough for the ring to fall out obviously. Call HB, they should replace.

Although, new Tachyon can be a struggle to splice it's not the case with this method.

Haha, do not try with old rope.

Yes mate both, spLIFE is a cool program it seems, a company prepared to help rather than hinder.

I would say the whipping/stitching would be vital for this splice.

22/23kn I've seen online so far.

Yes that's correct mate, very easy splice, eye taper very close to bury mark.

Long time since I spliced anything, had a go with the Teufelberger instructions for a soft splice, Tachyon the first try, Confetti just for fun and practice, these splices will not be climbed on as yet.

Samson Voyager, it's pretty static and has a good hand, yes I have climbed with a few different ropes with the Akimbo, Marlow Vega, NE Tachyon ect.

For the consultation why did the HSE, instead of using incredibly competent climbers who are experts in all types of climbing and training? Why not witness less competent climbers, guys or girls that are three years in say, or utility climbers? These type of climbers are arguably at more risk of mistakes than more experianced climbers. When I started climbing over twenty five years ago my mind was a lot different to how it is now, an older experianced brain is better at coping with more complicated climbing systems and managing those systems in a safer way than a young fresh still learning brain. Climbing systems should be, as a rule, as simple as possible to enable the climber to carry out the tasks with as little risk as possible, two rope systems add unneeded complications to every day climbing operations. Saying all this though I'm not totally against twin rope systems and used such recently on a victim of Ash die back, I couldn't trust just one TIP knowing the horror stories of the brittle nature of affected trees, so I used two ropes with two different devices in a safe controlled manner. I believe the inventor of the RW has recently been climbing with two small diameter ropes running through one system, this could be an answer because you could tie in with two different TIPs but still use the two ropes as one, would this be acceptable? So this has come about because of safety and prevent people from getting hurt and that's great but what it's also about is liability and who gets the blame and pays the price, or even doesn't when things go wrong. How about enabling people to choose appropriate systems for individual tasks? Much like we can choose to wear a different class of chainsaw protection in hot weather as long as we justify that decision in our risk assessments. Accept that accidents happen no matter what precautions are taken, accept that minimizing risk is all you can do, accept that some tasks require different approaches and people should not be nannyed into using systems that on paper look really good but in practice can increase risk to the inexperienced.

I like the grip it provides, just hate the way it constantly gets caught in everything possible.

I've been trying to think of one Petzl rack, but that is a decender.

Good, not my favourite rope though.

You need to keep tension on the eye when you splice double braid to stop the eye bunching up like Liros splice in your picture.

Used 16 strand is not easy to splice but is possible, the trick is to keep everything smooth and take your time. I did this one last week, admittedly I took the core out as itsvonly being used as a tool lanyard.