Can a person splice two pieces of amsteel together asin making a whoopie slig
Can a person splice two pieces of amsteel together asin making a whoopie slig
That would be something different than a Whoopie sling...more possibly like a UCR but yes there are ways to splice together Amsteel to make various types of suspension systems.
Arrowhead Equipment -- For all your hammock camping and backpacking gear
Arrowhead-Equipment.com Visit AHE on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Check out pictures on Instagram
Sign Up for Arrowhead-Equipment Gear News: Click Here
I suppose you can create two eye-splices using a locked brummel that join the ropes together; I don't know how much strength you would lose or if you can weave the two twogether properly
I will post pics tomorrow I am going to hang myself from them tonight.
- We're never going to survive this!!
- Nonsense. You only say that because no one ever has.
What passes for a "locked brummel" in a continuous loop here on HF is (as far as any rope makers instructions I've found) not a proper splice and I strongly suspect greatly reduces the overall breaking strength of the loop by doubling each end back on itself and relying on the "locked brummel" (parenthesis because it's not a locked brummel) for the connection instead of the buries. We get by with it because the strength of amsteel is high enough to apparently still have sufficient strength remaining for our uses.
The proper method of making an end to end splice in amsteel blue is to bury both ends and use lock stitching to secure the splice under no load conditions. The stitching does not add strength. Samson Amsteel End to End Splice Instructions. These instructions can be confusing the the first time you look at them, but it calls for 3 fid length buries and lock stitching.
Bookmarks