Home Artists Posts Import Register

Content

Patrons: 1st of 8 posts for April.  

Today's Video: PowerCord is a 5.9 mm accessory cord with a unique braided Technora core which doubles the strength of a standard 5.9 mm accessory cord. Technora is a high-strength, yet lightweight material making PowerCord a great option for anchor building and haul lines.  A Tension Backtie is used in a rescue rigging system to stabilize a monopod/bipod/tripod, backup a tree anchor, or shore up any other anchor. The number of strands between the two points determines the strength of the backtie. We tested a 2 and 3 strand.  Our blog has all the data https://www.hownot2.com/post/backties

Other Stuff: Still working on lab stuff, getting caught up on edits, bolting bible is coming along.  More on all this saturday!

Files

How strong is this skinny cord?

PowerCord is a 5.9 mm accessory cord with a unique braided Technora core which doubles the strength of a standard 5.9 mm accessory cord. Technora is a high-strength, yet lightweight material making PowerCord a great option for anchor building and haul lines. A Tension Backtie is used in a rescue rigging system to stabilize a monopod/bipod/tripod, backup a tree anchor, or shore up any other anchor. The number of strands between the two points determines the strength of the backtie. We tested a 2 and 3 strand. Our blog has all the data https://www.hownot2.com/post/backties Find Tom Pendley's Book - Essential Technical Rescue Field Operations Guide at https://desertrescue.com/ - HOWNOT2 gets you 20% off Buy 5.9 Sterling Powercord at ExtremeGear - https://extremegear.org/products/5-9mm-powercord-sterling?variant=44778091086108 👉 10% supports us at https://www.extremegear.org/ 👉 10% off Rocky Talkie by clicking https://www.rockytalkie.com/HowNOT2 👉 Our merch is at http://www.hownot2swag.com/ 👉 1000 Patrons makes us viable https://www.patreon.com/howNOTtoHighline 👉 1 time donations really help also https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/slackcessfund 00:00 What are backties 02:30 Full strength 03:08 Figure 8 04:13 Back tie Tests 07:25 Back tie with different knots? 08:13 Back tie with 13mm rope 09:28 NEW Sterling Power Cord tested 10:12 Conclusion and Data

Comments

Anonymous

Ok, I found a weight of 26g/m for Sterling PowerCord on a Safety Access and Rescue website. If that is correct, 26g/m *50m= 1300g or about 2.9 lbs. Please check my calcs!

Anonymous

A 50 meter Sterling Velocity 9.8 mm rope is listed as weighing in at 62g/m or 3,100g which is about 6.8 lbs. Skinny PowerCord will be a fraction of that rope weight.