Splicing cray pot rope
Submitted by big john on Sun, 2014-11-02 18:15
Fark me, how hard is it to splice ex-pro cray pot rope, very slow going with the Fid. I even tried submersing it in boiling water to 'soften' it but this did buggar all.
Anyone got any tips to make it easier?
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carnarvonite
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Simple
Do not try to pull each strand too tight as you do it. It will allow itself to lay back down as you go, but then again I would love to have $1 for each splice I have done over the years, I'd be a rich man
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Haha
I'd pay you $12 do need the remaining 12 John!
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carnarvonite
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Bring them round
If you bring them round I'll do them for nothing, should take about 15 minutes for 12 with 3 tucks on each
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If only you were in Perth.
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outdoinit
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Yeah not that easy when the rope is
newish and still quite stiff..
Made a lot easier if you have a splicing tool..
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carnarvonite
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Fid
How big is your fid? Too small and it makes hard work on old rope and you are liable to stick it in you hand
big john
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Large
Fairly large fid, stainless blade is about 23cm long. Already stuck it in my thumb once, the neighbours knew about it. LOL
It's all good, I just though their may have been a simple trick I didn't know about.
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Jsmolly
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Mate I found a screw driver
Mate I found a screw driver works best. Easy to push through, then twist to open wide easily! Recently did some myself. Soaked it over night in water and did nothing!!
carnarvonite
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Screw driver
Using a screw driver tears the fibres as you push it through.
As Big John said he has a fid, the proper tool for doing the job
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i found water softened the
i found water softened the rope a fair bit
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know a fisher guy
that does it he is in rockingham message me if you want his numb.
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Cheers
Cheers guys, the job is just about done now.
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Belly Fish
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I can do a couple for you...
...if you're running out of steam. As we discussed when you came over, used cray rope is pretty hard, but perserverance will pay off.
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Cheers
All done guys. Only stuck the fid in my hand twice during 24 splices, not too bad. LOL
Your pots out yet belly fish?
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Belly Fish
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Nah, 15th November for me
I reckon it's like when we used to drag for prawns...have to resist the temptation to go in too early :-)
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Fingers starting to look like big breakfast sausages BJ? I can sympathise with ya mate.
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BJ's fingers look like that
BJ's fingers look like that all the time
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Yo BJ one of the Perth Hawks
Yo BJ one of the Perth Hawks supporters could have come around and sorted it for you with their manly hands....
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carnarvonite
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Soft hands
Don't need a fid or other tools to splice old cray rope so I suppose it cancels a Pie supporters out?
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What type of rope?
A few questions?
1) Am I correct in saying that the standard rope that pro cray boats use is the 12mm hard lay PP (polypropylene)
2) I am wanting to learn to splice this also if anyone can direct me to a good video or animated display of how to do it? How do you lay the start out? Is 3 lays enough?
with knots I use a double sheetbend with enough tag end to fold it twice back through the spliced eye to help with making sure it does not come undone and use double overhand stopper knots to hold the floats In place
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mostly hard or medium, extra
mostly hard or medium, extra hard is near impossible to splice.
3 lays is plenty, sometimes we did only 2 and replace after a couple of seasons as the wear point is at the start of the eye from going thru pot winch.
To start, splay out the 3 strands with the middle one on top.
Lay this on top of the standing line and push fid thru top strand on standing end.
Push middle strand thru fid then do the other 2 as they lay.
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