Splicing an eye in 4 stranded rope
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mate that was great, fishermen always know the quickest and best way to work ropes.
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Thank you so much. There is so little instruction for working with 4 strand rope.
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I want to see a video with wire rope actually. Flemish eyes take ropes with an even amount of strands, never did one with an odd set. Just unlaying it and raveling it back into itself really. It sucks though when you get a bad piece of rope that wasn't made correctly and towards the end that slight miscalculation done by the manufacturer shows in all of it's glory and you're stuck debating to use a hammer or force it. Good times. Really though, what do you use those eyes on?
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used use this one a lot on trawl warp-with one tuck-or on the eyes of trawl footropes and rubber legs where you couldn`t get tucking many times with the rubbers in the way-every bit as strong as a proper splice on wire if done properly-regards from donegal...
hey thanks mate. you're right. bit of experience helps. Cheers!!
wexfordrebel 4 months ago
after the splice, why not make the tails longer, that way there will be no need for seizing rope, and it will look neater, that's how I do it over here in oz. 4 tucks to conform to aust. stds. cheers
petere1959 5 months ago
@petere1959 yea sure Petere it's better to leave the tails longer. I was in a hurry making that vid and normally do leave them longer. Thanks anyway for your comment. Regards. Freddie
wexfordrebel 4 months ago
the eyes are made from 14mm leaded rope. They are attached to static gill nets of 4 7/8" mesh with a headrope of 10mm and 12mm with flotation every fathom. The guys use them for fishing hake. We've found that with the extra weight in the lead rope, 30kg per 100m, they can fish through the spring tide, as long as they are not big springs. Slainte thanks for your interest
wexfordrebel 2 years ago