Altissimus
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Right ? or , Wrong
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Can’t be, gotta be a typo or something. Or it’s just really weak.
Marc-Antoine
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Or just huge safety factor, depending on the possible bad conditions of use, like rubbing, sharp edges?
Likely the opposite, but still severe usage related : I had a neighbor working for the rail road company at a trial area for fret. They had ropes cut in relative short length to pull the wagons. They were twisted ropes, not overly strong but they had a special policy for them: a two times use.
Take what ever rope you may find around, use it once, put it in the trash bin, take a new one for the next wagon.
That seemed such a waste to me. Thinking of it, it looks like they had a very low safety factor to get all the elasticity available to smooth the operation. Talk about reducing the number of cycles before failure.
Likely the opposite, but still severe usage related : I had a neighbor working for the rail road company at a trial area for fret. They had ropes cut in relative short length to pull the wagons. They were twisted ropes, not overly strong but they had a special policy for them: a two times use.
Take what ever rope you may find around, use it once, put it in the trash bin, take a new one for the next wagon.
That seemed such a waste to me. Thinking of it, it looks like they had a very low safety factor to get all the elasticity available to smooth the operation. Talk about reducing the number of cycles before failure.
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Altissimus
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Plan to girth dead eye through both loops and tighten them , then hang Block , haven't really checked w Yale Specs but 2×3/8" should add up to good sling material and feel comfortable ... rating may be an industry special thing
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Just checked Yalex 3/8” is 6000lbs breaking. So it’s gotta be a very conservative rating.
