Wire Rope Splice

Splicing wire rope. First a half inch choker is spliced and pressed together using ferrules. Second a one and an eighth steel cable is eye spliced by hand. The fellow in the video can do a splice in about 6 minutes, but this one took a little longer due to pauses for camera angles and such.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Rigging
• rope
• cable
• wire
• spliceing
• logging
• climbing

[singldad39]

By the way, I also liked your Pneumatic vise, do you put the Metal sleeves in the vise when making larger diameter slings?

[singldad39]

So I can see that grinding away some of the faying surfaces to try to meet the specifications, would be tempting, but is the metal flow of the sleeves still within the toolmaker/manufacturer's intentions? It may be interesting to do a saw cut through a sleeve to see the actual metal flow of the fittings. Please don't view my comments as negative, I can tell you really know what you are doing, and yours was the most informative I could find on any of the video websites.

[singldad39]

I like your video, very instructional, I realize you could do this much quicker if you weren't teaching at the same time. I only wish you would have shown the gauge that you use to check that the sleeves have been pressed to tolerance. The only other comment I have is, it looks like your dies for pressing the sleeves are very worn, and even look modified. I also have heard, that the dies for a half inch sling cost about $10,000.00.

[whiticitylogger]

Nice job, but it's easy in a workshop. Try splicing the same size rope on the side of a hill in the rain and the mud like us loggers do.

[bekiil]

I used to work on fishing trawlers. and man i have made alot of those you name loggers splice. We also joined wires. Hard work with 22 and 24mm. :)

[OKMUNWURX]

It would appear that all these splices and terminations work off friction that exceeds the breaking strength of the rope, so there is no way that the splice can fail unless the ropes tensile rating is exceeded .

I like how responsive the press is.

[RichardOhKaNoi]

wow super riggers screw sure wish i had one of those on my ships.had to do most of my splicing on a vice but some times i would luck out and get a good riggers screw but nothing like yours

[Mudwiggler]

Nice job looks easy but i bet its not.

[LincolnSP150]

Nice Job, I always wanted to learn how, but never got chance. At Kearney & Trecker we had several guys that made hitches. When I started there in 1973 most of our lifts were done with hemp rope and large S hooks. Later years they went with nylon strands encased in nylon jacket and large S hooks.Many of the special hitches were various sized cable .

[jonbal2001]

nice vid and skills