I am surprised by how well a single clove hitch worked on it's own. I've only ever used it as a starting knot, or for super low stress applications (and will continue to do so), but it help better than I thought. Cheers for the video, I'd love to know how a scaffold knot would have held up.
the book or you could call it a rescue manual that i have read called life on a line, the pdf is online i believe, the says that a bowline retains 50 to 65 percent of the ropes original strenght, it also goes on to say that the figure 9 knot retains something wild like 75-85 percent of the strenght. one thing i have noticed watching break tests is that the more gradual and more rope that is in between the part of the knot that does has the full hitch, the stronger. its when you have a real quick bend around the rope coming from the working end that the rope cuts the rope and game over. thank you for a great video sending love from tucson arizona
What the heck is going on with the wall bricks, at 4:54?? They seem to be shifting around! Are we seeing a glitch in the Matrix, here? Has anybody else noticed this?
Just for reference, With ur come-a-long, the drop in psi at the moment u peak on ur stroke, is the way the gears work when the tooth engages the gear, by design it drops ever so slightly when u go to re-engage the stroke. I dont believe ur getting that kind of stretch, especially with dyneema cord.
Two reasons... first, we are in the US where most things use imperial measurements. Second, these tests do not rise to the level of science in that we don't control the conditions closely nor do we test a statistically significant number of cases. Using imperial measurements helps to suggest the casual nature of the investigations, since Science (capital S) would use metric.
I am surprised by how well a single clove hitch worked on it's own. I've only ever used it as a starting knot, or for super low stress applications (and will continue to do so), but it help better than I thought.
Cheers for the video, I'd love to know how a scaffold knot would have held up.
the book or you could call it a rescue manual that i have read called life on a line, the pdf is online i believe, the says that a bowline retains 50 to 65 percent of the ropes original strenght, it also goes on to say that the figure 9 knot retains something wild like 75-85 percent of the strenght. one thing i have noticed watching break tests is that the more gradual and more rope that is in between the part of the knot that does has the full hitch, the stronger. its when you have a real quick bend around the rope coming from the working end that the rope cuts the rope and game over.
thank you for a great video
sending love from tucson arizona
A great observation! Thanks for the insight!
What the heck is going on with the wall bricks, at 4:54?? They seem to be shifting around! Are we seeing a glitch in the Matrix, here? Has anybody else noticed this?
Just for reference, With ur come-a-long, the drop in psi at the moment u peak on ur stroke, is the way the gears work when the tooth engages the gear, by design it drops ever so slightly when u go to re-engage the stroke. I dont believe ur getting that kind of stretch, especially with dyneema cord.
Why don't you use Metric?
Two reasons... first, we are in the US where most things use imperial measurements. Second, these tests do not rise to the level of science in that we don't control the conditions closely nor do we test a statistically significant number of cases. Using imperial measurements helps to suggest the casual nature of the investigations, since Science (capital S) would use metric.