I recently purchased a Maasdam Rope Puller and 200 feet of 1/2" 3-strand rope. Today I decided to put a spliced eye in the end of the rope. It's a whole lot easier to splice the 3 strand stuff before loading it. I've tried splicing used rope that had been loaded pretty heavily and that's...
NickfromWI,
I'm not sure that it's a big deal, but due to the nature of the construction a loopie sling is much stronger than a whoopie. Two legs of rope vs. a single leg in a whoopie.
The added strength of the loopie is what sold me on them. I use the larger loopies at the top rigging...
Thanks for all of the help, friends. I'll be ordering a good amount of Tenex Tec from TreeStuff in different sizes. I plan on making about 3 loopies in each size.
Joel
Yep.....that will work, Nick.
I'm mainly concerned that I'm not correctly measuring the length of the bury. Can you provide me with some proper bury lengths for the 1/2 and 5/8 loopies? How about the tapered tail bury? Any suggestions on lengths and tapers for those?
Thanks a heap.
Joel
Hello friends.
I'm in the process of making a few new loopie slings from Tenex. I'm familiar with the bury procedure for these....super easy to do......but I'm needing some help determining how many feet of Tenex I need to make loopie slings of different lengths and diameters.
For...
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