Splicing Two Braided Ropes Together

This splice will securely keep the rope together.

Splicing two braided ropes together.

Premiumropes has uploaded various splicing tutorials such as eye splices soft shackles taper sheets or make a continuous furler line. Fold it in half and tape the ends together. Simply use the end of a separate rope instead of using one end of the same rope which is the example provided here. You can get one from the scrap pile at any rigging shop.

Splice terminations are used in all our ropes to determine new and unused tensile strengths. A back end splice is especially useful for preventing a rope that has become unraveled from fraying. They make their own from the center strand of 1 19 rigging wire you need a piece 18 or so long. These fibers encouraged the development of the loosely woven hollow braid ropes in which the fiber alignment maximized strength.

In this video i show you how to splice 2 pieces of rope together. Apart from being bulky and unsightly even a correctly tied knot can cause significant loss of strength to a rope. A splice is a way of terminating a rope or joining two ends of rope together without using a knot. Make sure that the fold is a sharp 180 turn the closer together the two wires the easier it will be on the second fid pass.

Splicing modern braided ropes of super fibres is quite fun and easy to learn. These ropes require suitable splicing techniques such as the brummel and long bury. Samson recommends splicing as the preferred rope termination method. The ropes yield excellent strength from the fibers and the splices weaken the ropes hardly at all.

Extract and mark cores per step 2 of eye splice directions. Knots can significantly decrease a ropes strength while in most cases splicing maintains 100 of the specified rope strength. You can use this same splice to fasten two different ropes together too. Tie slip knots on each end as per previous directions.

The quickest way to connect two ropes is to tie them together. When you need to connect two lines you will have to weigh out the pros and cons of each option to decide what is best for you at that moment if you have plenty of time. This is a vital technique for anyone working regularly with rope.