Wayback When: splicing rope

[Capttomo]

Back in the day all our ropes including the halyards on the ladders were three strand Manila. While in the academy one of my squad members had learned how to splice ropes when he was in the Navy. He taught me how to splice. I was constantly asked to splice the ends of Clorox bottle ropes, utility lines, and when Halyards were replaced. It seemed very members knew how to splice ropes. How many members on this site knew how to splice? Was there just the one or two guys in the house that everyone went to to finish up their ropes. Merry Christmas to all

 

[1261Truckie]

Back in the day all our ropes including the halyards on the ladders were three strand Manila. While in the academy one of my squad members had learned how to splice ropes when he was in the Navy. He taught me how to splice. I was constantly asked to splice the ends of Clorox bottle ropes, utility lines, and when Halyards were replaced. It seemed very members knew how to splice ropes. How many members on this site knew how to splice? Was there just the one or two guys in the house that everyone went to to finish up their ropes. Merry Christmas to all

I did not know how to splice. One of the lieutenants and one of the members in 132 did however and they did our splicing.

 

[vikingegfd]

I sailed as a youth and worked in a marine hardware store. So I learned to splice a couple of different ways.

 

[t123ken]

My father, a World War II Navy Veteran, taught me how to splice - at least three tucks for manila and at least five tucks for nylon.
Splices are stronger than knots.

 

[raybrag]

My son is a tree climber, and a Navy veteran. He learned splicing on low strand count ropes as a Bosun's Mate, and furthered his splicing knowledge in the tree care industry. He's a whiz at splicing 12, 15 and even 18 strand Dynema ropes. The splicing table he uses is 20 feet long . . . and he says it's a real challenge keeping track of all the filaments while he's splicing an end loop.

 

[Disp51]

I don't know if it's still in the program, but when I went to Aviation HS in Queens, back in the early 60's, we learned how to splice cable. You had to buy a pocket knife with a Marlin Spike for the class. Today, I doubt they would allow a pocket knife, much less one with a spike attached..