What are the implications of left laid rope?
Can only be used safely in the southern hemisphere.
--will quickly ravel in the northern one, if ends aren't strongly whipped!
Well, maybe not, but that advice seems fitting with this thread, which has grown
pretty strange: the OP is looking for rope to tie to a bar to support his body weight,
and which "bar" turns out to be some kind of rather small-looking device seemingly
already built to facilitate the chin-ups & dips intended for the rope, but then comes
mention of more gymnastic type maneuvres (!)--on THAT device?, and some
"for example" calculation become specification for two ton rope strength!!
Holy smokes, how heavy is this dippy guy supposed to be?? --maybe there's some
need for exercise, but not THAT much need.
I find 1/2" cotton rope given a 156# working load, and for some of the activity
suggested, that seems adequate; 3/4" is 3,100#, from same vendor.
(Jimbo, the vendor you linked to has some dubious information:
PP rope "excellent" vs. UV degradation(?!!),
nylon "poor" re rot (?), and good resistance to acids(!?),
AND a rope selection guide that omits several of the marketed ropes!)
Rather than the splicing of eyes, one could just tie off two ends of a bight of
rope (call it one BIG eye) to the bar; or bend them together (Twin Bowlines,
leaving about, oh, a foot of doubled lines between the knots, for hands!?) and
tie off the two slings with a girth or Prusik hitch to the bar. You did say you have
LOTS of rope, so doubling it in this way helps put more of it to use.
--dl*
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