Eye Splice 3 Strand Rope

For mooring towlines and other long term or critical applications seven tucks are recommended.

Eye splice 3 strand rope.

How to eye splice three strand rope. Turn the entire piece over. Bend following the natural bend of the rope so as not to put any twist into the eye or the splice. Knots can significantly decrease a ropes strength while in most cases splicing maintains 100 of the specified rope strength.

For more about this knot check out our article here. The eye splice and its variants are well described by ashley abok 2725 p 445. Easy step by step instructions for splicing a loop in the end of a three strand rope in this knot tying video tutorial. Bend the rope to form the desired eye size and mark with a temporary wrap of tape.

Samson recommends splicing as the preferred rope termination method. Today we re continuing our knot of the week hd series with the eye splice. Modern synthetic materials however tend to be slippery and now a minimum of five complete tucks is required. Tip jar support my channel.

In this detailed video tutorial we show you easy step by step instructions for tying an eye splice with three strand rope. A splice you put in yourself will be just as strong as one done by a professional rigger and splicing an eye into three strand rope is really very easy. This is done with the standing part of the rope in front of you bending the tail of the rope from left to right note. All dock lines should have an eye splice in one end.

Tuck strand 1 under the nearest marked spot figure 3 above. I needed to put some short lengths of rope on a tarpaulin tarp and figured that this would be a good way to do it rather than just tying a knot and hoping it holds. Hi all this is my first instructable so any feedback would be great. The animation only shows the threading of two complete tucks with the final image.