Recent content by jamie

good good, glad to hear it, It's not worth taking short cuts. remember, it's your life on the line. measure twice, cut once Jamie

i run a hitc climber with some oval krabs, like folk have said a spliced eye hooked up to the middle attachment hole works best, on teh top hole the splice and krab hit the hitch to easily. when using a standard micro pully i didn't like a vt, too much work, now i'm onto a hitch climber i'm...

Rangerdanger, Why would you want to purposefully reduce the potential strength of the splice? I'm assuming you are intending to use the Tachyon for life support yeah? as you were doing your maths homework maybe do some calculations to work out the safe working load of the rope (spliced and un...

sometimes my english fails me a bit too good thread Jamie

nylon and dacron are different, dacron and polyester are the same stuff though. Jamie

nice i'd like to go there but it's pretty far south Jamie

for once nick is not the splicing guru:O help the world is going to end. i want to make myself a flip line so i need to learn a wire splice Jamie

Max just the eye and maybe a bit of the cover to help stop the ends fraying. don't go mental, i put two coats on some beeline and it's still ridgid years later (it's not a hitch cord) Jamie

ach well thats ok then. suppose i'll just have to keep my ticks to myself then:lol:. there are quite a few tree supply companys just most sell tenex if they sell anything Jamie

Nick did you ever come up with a covered beeline eye using a brummell? Jamie

sarthur, Tenex is the only stuff you can find over here, i'm sure there would be some places that might stock Yalex but don't go holding your breath. in the past i've spliced marlow D12 which is a 12 strand hollow dyneema rope, quite stiff and low low melting point. i'm not a fan or marlow...

ha ha ha, even i can get it. it's not like a twelve strand tuck splice Jamie

it may return, just when we wipe ourselves out. Nice pics though Jamie

i wrap some insulating/electrical tape round the end Jamie

A common spotted orchid, the picture was taken on teh isle of Skye, my good lady was stomping off on teh 8mile return over the hills when i spotted this. jamie