Uses for a Loopie?

[bstewert]

Here's a little 27" loopie Jesse spliced up for me at the GTG. I'm using it all the time for various things.

What are some other uses?

 

[sotc]

Hang a rigging block or redirect

 

[SkwerI]

For hanging polesaws or gear in a tree to free up your hands, I'd just use a loop runner. I always have a couple on the back of my saddle. The Loopie would be for more size-specific jobs like hanging a block.

 

[flushcut]

Yep rigging.

 

[Widow Shooter]

rigging, easier to adjust quickly than an eye sling or whoopie whilst in-tree

 

[bstewert]

Hang a rigging block or redirect

Yeah, I meant besides rigging, since that's the most obvious use.

 

[Burnham]

Dog leash with an attitude.

 

[NickfromWI]

Bob, out of curiosity, what is holding together the end of the rope here? A whipping?



love
nick

 

[bstewert]

Yes, whipping. I just put the tape over the end to help me recognize the end.

 

[NickfromWI]

Interesting. Different, but I guess it works. As long as it's done with a GOOD whipping, I don't see how it'd function any different and it's a little more elegant, too.

Cool.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Tying your lady to the bed head.

Or wrists behind her back with the other end cinched around her stiletto heels

I like rope.

 

[NickfromWI]

Someone suggested I make a set of 4 whoopies for just that purpose.

What would I call them? Whoopie slings.

It's perfect.

 

[sotc]

Ha!

 

[Thor's Hammer]

That got a large laugh here Nick.

 

[MasterBlaster]

"Nick's Fun Ropes!"

 

[flushcut]

What would I call them? Whoopie slings.

Nookie slings by Nick. I see a new cottage industry being born.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Four Please

 

[NickfromWI]

It'd be very easy. I sized it all out already! It's a set of four 4' whoopie slings. The adjustable eye is what goes over the legs or bed posts of the bed, then there'd be a non adjustable approx 6" eye on the other end. You can either slip the hands/feet through it if you want the...uhh...."layer" to be able to get out if they need...or you girth hitch the hands in for those that are into a more "committed" approach.

It really wouldn't cost that much. I can't remember who it was- but it was someone years ago back in the arboristsite days that was joking around about it.

It's ready to be ordered. Maybe I should put them up on ebay and see what happens!

love
nick

 

[sotc]

Maybe a little fluff on the rope...

 

[NickfromWI]

Actually I was envisioning it with a 1/2" NER Regatta Braid. Nice and soft on the hands with a little bit of fuzzyness to it...

This rope wouldn't make a great whoopie sling- but it'd feel better and is more bedroom appropriate than say a standard yalex or tenex. They look too industrial I think.

Any takers?

 

[pigwot]

Hmmm, All the bondage types would be flocking to your site and we'd never get an arborist-related splice out of you again...
You could sell a set of four for what? $39.99 plus S&H, all the way up to $99.99 shipping included for the glow-in-the-dark variety,
...and they'd fly off the shelf, no?

 

[sotc]

Well then theres the heavy duty types that might need stable braid...

 

[NickfromWI]

I'd have to sell them for more than that. At $40, that's $10 per whoopie!!! It would take about 8' of rope to make each one, so that's about $20 dollars in rope total- so I'm thinking about $60 or $80 for a set. Anyone wanna hop on the sex sites and see what similar stuff might be going for?!

 

[NickfromWI]

I was thinking that the dyneema (amsteel, maxibraid, etc) would have a neat feel to it. That slick rope would be good and WAY easier to adjust than regatta braid. It would get expensive, though...

 

[sotc]

But its not meant to be shock loaded....