[quote=charlescarlis]Yes, I meant "Trap wire", not tramp... Shouldn't drink and type.
Uh, I have to echo Brett's sentiment; I broke a less than adequate rope over the weekend serving as my gin pole bridal; wasn't a big deal because I had 1 guy each on either shroud holding the mast in-line. Doing it solo would have been a problem. The gin pole bridals didn't suffer from near the tension change as the trapeze wires. In thinking about that and failures, I'm thinking of hooking the 2 trap wires up each side, independently, with one having the maximum amount of slack needed on each side to serve as a safety should anything give way on the tighter one. I've been using rated, locking carabiners for the hook-ups (???). A way to reliably and safely release just a little tension as the rig comes up would be nice, because as I think about it, mine relied on me not slipping. Would rather, when released the line locks up on the trapeze line tension.
I'll re-rig next time and shoot pics...[/quote]
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