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Originally Posted by Brion Toss
Hi again,
I mention elsewhere in the video that I much prefer stitching ó and invisibly stitching, at that ó to whipping. The purppose of both is to hold the splice together at low loads, when the "Chinese handcuff" effect is weakest. ...
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What should we consider "low loads?" I like to pull on the eye of a non stitched single braid rope at various angles to see how quickly the handcuff action starts. What we do know is that the grabbing on doesn't happen immediately, and an arborist splice on the end of a climbing line is constantly being loaded and unloaded. Many times a day it sees those "low loads." Stitching or whipping is ESSENTIAL here.
We need to come up with a term for that "chinese handcuff" effect.
love
nick