<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bill Sapsis wrote:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">You cannot choke both ends of a roundsling. You can choke one end but the other end will require a shackle or a similar device.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Is that a safety rule, or a practicality matter? Normally I can see where you can’t choke both ends, but with a short “sub batten,” it seems like you could form a choke and slide the pipe in. Of course you wouldn’t have any adjustment, but would that be wrong to do?<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">My concern with using a roundsling is that it could possibly slip along the pipe. As I’m sure you’ve seen, people, especially kids, love to grab on to legs and pull them around. They could conceivably pull the leg hard enough to pull the sub-pipe out of the sling. Yeah, I know it’s a bit farfetched but it could happen.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If the legs are tied to the sub batten on both sides of each Spanset (er, excuse me - Roundsling) then it should be effectively locked in place.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">With a chain/shackle/batten clamp assembly it can’t possibly happen. I like that a lot better.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I’d certainly agree that this would be a better solution for a permanent situation. I’m just curious about the above.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">*Spanset is a brand name that is sometimes used as the generic name for synthetic roundslings. I’ve got nothing against Spanset but I do prefer to call rigging equipment by it’s proper name. Makes for better accuracy. I like accuracy.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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