Rope To Rope Splice

Back in the days of weak chain and hemp rope a two strand splice was developed to allow bulky rope to fit through a link.

Rope to rope splice.

These techniques are stronger than knots and are generally intended for permanent lengthening. Splice terminations are used in all our ropes to determine new and unused tensile strengths. In a two strand long chain splice one strand is unlaid far back up the rope and the remaining two strands are fed through the link in opposite directions lying flat and sharing the load evenly. Some workers installing electricity cables however have reported using the same splice to haul cables through buried pipes.

Splices are preferred to knotted rope since while a knot typically reduces the strength by. Splices can be used to form a stopper at the end of a line to form a loop or an eye in a rope or for joining two ropes together. Step by step instructions for splicing two ropes together using a lon. This three strand splice is used when you need to maintain a similar thickness of rope.

The sliding splice is the exception. Samson recommends splicing as the preferred rope termination method. Rope splicing in ropework is the forming of a semi permanent joint between two ropes or two parts of the same rope by partly untwisting and then interweaving their strands. Knots can significantly decrease a ropes strength while in most cases splicing maintains 100 of the specified rope strength.