Dad taught me splices when I was a kid. He won competitions for splices in the Navy and the electric utility company he worked for. I've made tow straps, dog leashes, rope ladders. I have a dog leash now with two handles, a choke up loop and a loop for attaching a second leash. People have been puzzled by it and asked me if they can look at it.
@rjsway78 Жыл бұрын
Looks like I’ve gotta go buy some rope and start splicing!
@BurchellAtTheWharf Жыл бұрын
4:11 the metal tool was called a fid, it's purpose it to easy the separation of one strand from the three to tuck the one underneath. This pen, is being used as a Marline spike, which effectively does the same thing, just a different design, but works very well on wire rope/cable, where the fid is not strong enough to handle the force required to separate cable. The more yea know
@markfisher7962 Жыл бұрын
Well, Swedish fid. They ARE nice.
@11bravo18 Жыл бұрын
A fid's unnecessary for polyro. It unlays with just finger pressure.
@petersaxton90076 ай бұрын
Great stuff!
@BurchellAtTheWharf Жыл бұрын
Can you do a mid rope loop splices?
@markfisher7962 Жыл бұрын
Depending on what you are doing, yes.
@BurchellAtTheWharf Жыл бұрын
@@markfisher7962 I lobster fish and I set traps in 1's, 2's, 3's, and sometimes in sets of 4's and I hockle my rope to put a spliced loop in it so I don't to fight knots or extra rope ends through my hauler, I was hoping this lovely experts would test to sea how much it weakens the rope, I don't have the equipment to test this, and they might be able to benefit from the tests while at the same time would help me an possibly other fishers
@markfisher7962 Жыл бұрын
The mid-line loop splices I'm familiar with are used to locate an eye, or cringle, along a boltrope in sailmaking. I can't quite visualize how you're thinking of using a mid-rope loop. In The Ashley Book of Knots, chapter 36: Odd Splices, you may find something that suits, perhaps #2834 or #2842.