has any one ever tried to weld cable together i have 2 40 ft pieces and thought about trying to weld them together what are your thoughts :)
Welding them together? No. You could do a long splice. Not hard to do but hard to describe here. There are a lot of videos on YouTube.
Long splice is the way to go.
the Navy did this for centuries with rope and the line (navy talk for rope) would feed thru the shackles (navy talk for pulleys) feeded just fine.
Now i realize that hitches weigh a lot but not as much as ships and suspended cargo
I have a splicing pdf, but it's 111 pages long and I can't figure out how to put it in my gallery to put into a post. I got it off the internet from the worksafe British Columbia web site. But it's discontinued on the internet. It was called Logging on.
There's a site called "long splice instructions - Sampson rope". It's shows how to do a 3 wire splice real good, but in wire rope it's 6 or 7 wire but following the sampson lead and add the extra wires it's easy to get a good splice.
I Brazed a 5/16 cable, I unraveled the end of each cable and jammed it together and brazed it. It done what I needed it to do, that was to pull the new cable up through then pulleys in the top of my silo.
Long splice is the way to go.
Its the way the cables for Ski Hill chair lifts are installed to form a continuous loop
Al
I would say no for a skidder winch cable, wrapping around a winch drum is to tight a bend for any welded cable to work. also the danger of the cable snapping quickly. I worked for years at ski areas and the rule of thumb for the cable splices were the length of the splice was 180 times the diameter of the cable. Lots of very cold fingers and marlinspikes. :)
loggah,
Haven't seen a post by you in a while.It's always good to hear your feed back.