Video: Whoopiesling Bury Pull

[Raskusdrotti]

Nope, did not notice. I will get that fixed.

My son (10 years old) is the editor. He loves posting videos.

I wish I could do that - I can't work out how to use editing software (or at least I couldn't last time I tried!) Pass on my compliments to him as the graphics look great...

Neil

[TiredFeet]

The only problem I can see is for the whoopie slings on the suspension. If you try making it with 2 colors so that the constrictor is one color and the portion from the constrictor to the tree and back is another color, you will have to use a continuous bury (also known as an end to end splice) to do that. To retain as much of the rope strength as possible you will have to use buries on each rope of 3.5 fids for each. Each bury will end up being 3 fids long. For 1/8" diameter rope, that comes to 8.25" for each or a total length of the finished bury of 17.5".

Since the bury will not pull into the constrictor portion of the whoopie sling (at least not without a lot of work and even more work then trying to get it out), you have just increased the minimum length of the whoopie sling by 17.5" which increases your minimum tree span by 35" or almost 3'. So a 14' minimum tree span is increased to 17'.

It's a good idea and will work if you can find some way to dye the rope instead of using an end to end splice to obtain the differing colors. Dying Amsteel or any Dyneema rope is exceedingly difficult. The rope makers use differing color coverings instead of trying to dye the dyneema.