throwlines--tied/ spliced eye versus slippery clove hitch/ other hitch

[SouthSoundTree]

What do you all like?

I've been trying a tied eye. Kinda like it. I know it could snag when pulling through the canopy without a weight, whereas the straight line will not. Anybody actually snagged it with an eye?



Edit: For those that didn't read my mind, I did mean mostly for connecting throwline to throwbag .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Anchor hitch

 

[SkwerI]

I have always used a tied eye, never had a problem. No tying or untying knots all the time, either.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Once you learn an anchor hitch, it is as fast as a girth hitched eye. It's like using one leg to tie a girth hitch. Comes untied just as fast.
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[emr]

I use the anchor hitch but I like spliced eyes better. I had spliced eyes on our throwlines but they all ended up breaking off. I don't like any dyneema or spectra throwlines so we just use Slick Line (I think it's called) and those eyes tend to break fairly easily. I never had an eye snag in the tree.

 

[Tucker943]

Anchor hitch rocks.

 

[SouthSoundTree]

I usually go with the slippery clove, myself. Easy for me, but an eye might be easier for newbies, and possibly with gloves.

I'll experiment with an anchor hitch.

 

[Jack]

I use a locked brummel eye on each end of each throwline ... never caught on anything. Used to use a slipped anchor before that.

 

[NickfromWI]

Once you learn an anchor hitch, it is as fast as a girth hitched eye. It's like using one leg to tie a girth hitch. Comes untied just as fast.
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NO WAY! We're splitting hairs here, but the girth hitch is a lot smoother and faster to tie. I've used both for years and the splice is just faster.

Now untying is a different story. Whenever I do an anchor hitch, I tie it slippery so untying is just a quick pull and it's good to go.

I prefer the spliced because I bury the tails about 5' down so I have something beefier to hold on to when throwing!

love
nick

 

[DMc]

Pile hitch. Super fast to tie and untie and I have never had it fail.

Dave

 

[Jack]

Correct me if I'm wrong, Dave ... but, aren't we talking about connecting the throwline to the throw bag?

Although, I do use the pile-hitch to tie the throw line to the rope.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

SO I am now confused... Are we talking about what to hitch the throw bag with or pulling up the rope?

 

[Jack]

Well, I thought it was the throw bag ... but it's Sean's thread ... he's probably trying to type with a baby in his arms ...

 

[pantheraba]

Bag to throw-line....slippery clove hitch. I have started experimenting with a mooring hitch.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I just use a bowline.

 

[ClimbingFool]

Slippery Bowline, girth hitch to ring. This also makes it easy to girth it to your eye on climb line and pull through rings or whatever your pulling it through.

 

[stig]

No hitches here, for the simple reason that I can't see to untie them anymore without using glasses.

 

[treesmith]

I use a bowline, but I have had it hang ONCE as I pulled the line back out of a tree. The eye is only about 3" long, but it opened enough to hang on a small stub. I've thought about trying a spliced eye, just haven't done it yet.

 

[flushcut]

I use a fig8 tied with a loop big enough to girth hitch to the bag, then girth hitch to the climb line or rig line with a few half hitches. Once it is back on to me just twist the throw line off of the climb line quick and dirty.

 

[kevin bingham]

I use a horse knot. Quick release. CAn tie it and untie it in seconds. Tried the splice eyes but they seemed to work themselves into incredible knots

 

[tophopper]

Ive always used a tied eye, which is girth hitched to the bag......never had any problems

 

[CurSedVoyce]

No hitches here, for the simple reason that I can't see to untie them anymore without using glasses.

SO that's how my boys must have learned not to tie anything on the bags

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[DMc]

Correct me if I'm wrong, Dave ... but, aren't we talking about connecting the throwline to the throw bag?...

Well, off in left field again, oops. I don't like anything more on a throw line than absolutely necessary so just use a Clove hitch on the bag ring.

Dave

 

[SouthSoundTree]

I think that they all work pretty well. Mostly six of one, and killing a bush with two birds on the other stone.

I do like that eyes, as Rajan mentioned, can then be girth hitched onto the rope, followed by half hitches, after removing from the throwbag. A person can sometimes 'strip' this off the end of the rope, with all half-hitches and girth hitch just falling out, which is much harder with clove and half-hitches. Again, easier for the newb climber. Erik is getting more climbing time these days.

 

[ClimbingFool]

I think that they all work pretty well. Mostly six of one, and killing a bush with two birds on the other stone.

I do like that eyes, as Rajan mentioned, can then be girth hitched onto the rope, followed by half hitches, after removing from the throwbag. A person can sometimes 'strip' this off the end of the rope, with all half-hitches and girth hitch just falling out, which is much harder with clove and half-hitches. Again, easier for the newb climber. Erik is getting more climbing time these days.

Do you not use a spliced eye on your climb line ?