hey Nick, this is a HYPOTHETICAL question for you....

is it possible to splice a short length of Beeline or similar, to the TAILend of a climbing rope?

think of it as a HYBRID bas***ization of a Traditional tail climbing setup, and a splittail......instead of wearing the end of the climbing rope, there would be a two - three foot section of Beeline or similar, for those of us that like the trad system of climbing vs a splittail....

diagram: (-------- = climbing rope tail, 8= figure eight knot on biner, +++= beeline or similar)

climbing rope tail: ----------------8----+++++++++ < Beeline end

thoughts, comments?

Hmmm.... I bet there is a way to do it. Let me think about it over dinner.

But does anyone REALLY like trad vs. split tail?

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nick

sometimes i do yes mostly when i just want to haul myself up a tree, and sit on a big limb to eat my lunch. For work and all other climbing i splitail on beeeeline

Originally posted by NickfromWI
Hmmm.... I bet there is a way to do it. Let me think about it over dinner.

But does anyone REALLY like trad vs. split tail?

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nick

But of course! I double-crotch during 99.9% of my climbs, what a pain to manage 4 biners at the saddle tie-in!

The only split-tail I really enjoy climbing on performance-wise is a closed hitch so it can't be part of the main rope.
-moss

SRT- I changed my mind. The 2 ropes are too different to splice together, other than by splice an eye in one, then splicing the other rope to the first eye.

You might be able to do an end-to-end splice to connect the large diameter Beeline to Blaze, since they are both double braids and ALMOST the same diameter, but we'd have to break test to know if what was spliced was any good.

Would you really want to splice a new piece on when you replaced? Why not just splice an eye in the climbing line, then use another split tail, made of the same type of rope, and clip both to a 'biner? I'm not seeing the advantage here.

I am ALL for splices, and use them whereever possible....but this seems like a place where it wouldn't be appropriate.

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nick

the idea behind it was to reduce clutter, clutter like knots, biner, splittail etc. I like a very streamlined saddle tie in point, the simpler the better.

what about a tenex sleeve over the last 3 feet?