What did you do to your Patrol today!

[Rossco]

@MudRunnerTD , thanks to your kind advice and your mate Phil @ 'The 4WD Shed' I too soon will officially be a 'BigMouth' after a little bit more custom/cutting work to Mill's new creation. I'll still need to learn from you mate that safe knot for broken new age rope as my old cable hi-mount was given a serious birthday by Phil too :-) He's braced up the +76 drum beautifully that I hauled back from the UK and 45m of 12mm Aussie made 'Whittam' rope going on soon! Thanks heaps Darren, appreciated mate :-) !!


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Hey markie looks pretty mint can't wait to see this baby in action. I've just used a double fisherman's before on winch rope, not sure if it's theres a better option but it's certainly not going to come undone in a hurry. . .

https://youtu.be/O6oJwedcb18

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[MB]

Thanks heaps Rossco mate! Was also thinking my old 100lb handreel fishing 'Thumb Knot' days could work. I think it is the same as what you kindly posted then. Absolute line pressure was on the two line ends and not the knot itself so to speak :-) From memory my old fishing book reckoned the 80lb +++ suitable thumb knot would retain over 80% line strength as best I remember ;-)

[AB]

Thanks heaps Rossco mate! Was also thinking my old 100lb handreel fishing 'Thumb Knot' days could work. I think it is the same as what you kindly posted then. Absolute line pressure was on the two line ends and not the knot itself so to speak :-) From memory my old fishing book reckoned the 80lb +++ suitable thumb knot would retain over 80% line strength as best I remember ;-)

Nah splicing rope is what you should do for a breakage and can easily be done on the track.

A good splice is stronger than the rest of the rope and won't ruin the spool flow or jam up.

Video below for a fixed eye...
https://youtu.be/Q22wgYZL9f0

End for end splice below for breakage.
I followed this vid on mine and has never let me down...

https://youtu.be/yjhBEe_8XHg

This guy has some other good vids too...


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[Rossco]

Yeah splice is nice. Reckon its quick & easy enough to do on the trail in a pickle tho ? . . Depends on how quick your sinking I guess. .

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[AB]

Yeah splice is nice. Reckon its quick & easy enough to do on the trail in a pickle tho ? . . Depends on how quick your sinking I guess. .

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Oh for sure, if time is tight go for it.

I actually taped a texter lids to my ends and it slid through the rope pretty quick but yeah if time is of the essence...


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[Hodge]

Wish I paid more attention back at trade school. Some of the linesman rope splices they taught us were incredible.
It's a dying knowledge. All our ropes nowdays come mainly pre terminated however we want it to.

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[MB]

Yeah splice is nice. Reckon its quick & easy enough to do on the trail in a pickle tho ? . . Depends on how quick your sinking I guess. . Sent from my GT-I9506 using Tapatalk

Not that I'm looking to go comp trucking but the 'BigMouth' advice was from pro's purely for quick 'hopefully' safe knots to be able to pass through the fairlead if the need was to unfortunately urgenty arise as suggested above Rossco :-)

[PeeBee]

Thanks for that. I have to work tomorrow and have one of the contractors who does machining at a hydraulic company in Melb. I will see if he can identify them first then sort out which way to go. Now its so close am itching to get it sorted and put to bed.

I had my contractor mate sort out the fittings on Monday, just waiting for the parts now. He just looked at them and knew exactly what size they were, so all good. All jic fittings.

[MB]

"Jic" fittings Phil mate? Please explain :-) May help the final piece to my oil cooler puzzle :-) Cheers!

[PeeBee]

"Jic" fittings Phil mate? Please explain :-) May help the final piece to my oil cooler puzzle :-) Cheers!

'AN' fittings refer to a style or thread form used by the army/navy in USA, JIC fittings are just a different style and thread form and format. To be honest the specifics are probably best left to the hydraulics guys to resolve as some fittings are tapered and others flat faced with 'o rings' etc. if you take the coolers down to a hose fitting guy he will know exactly what works with what.