MasterSplicer

So why you didn't buy it without the braided cover? In my opinion and experience the braided cover is a waist of money. I thought you pay extra 1,60 Euro extra each meter. Was it yellow or orange? But i agree what you say there because when the braided cover starts to fall apart then it is some times difficult to get it of the drum when you have to pul it of by hand

Wel i have never seen it as Dux Diamond so i can't tell.Maybe i should say it differently this rope is never sold as Dux Diamond. I have seen al sorts of copys of this rope with al kind of names but that was never the DUX rope. In fact this Icelandic rope is really fabricated in Litouwen. There is there rope factory stationed. So maybe with your connections in these areas should be able to buy a spool.

The best synthetic rope on the market today is the one of Masterpull. They cal it there superline and that's what it is. There is no other rope what getting close to there breaking strenght of there ropes. The one Lara is refering to is even there "old" line,what has a braided cover arround it. Funny thing here is that they claim is that it's there in the house made rope and that isn't really the thruth. This is a 100% European made rope. The rope comes from Island where it is bin used on fisher trawlers al over the world. It's the same rope where Gigglepin is refering to. The Masterpull rope is extremly expensiv specially when you buy the one with braided cover arround it. The braided cover by it self is extremly strong. Thought the breaking strenght of that cover is by it self already something like 2200 kg. There advert in the past was that the ropes with the braided cover was even made stronger because of that fact. But that wasn't thrue eather as during test it was very clear that the rope and the inner fibres whare acting differently from each other. So you can't count the braided cover and the ropes own fibres together. Another negativ point here is that the rope with the braided cover can't be spliced. Some ropes with braided cover you stil can splice as a normal rope without braided cover but these masterpull ropes you can't. The braided cover is so dense that you can't put even a nail into it. Great advantage of the braided cover is that it keeps out mud sand stones etc till the cover brakes. Then it wil be a big mud trap. The debree gets into the rope and can't get out anymore. I have used these sorts of lines many times and i know , i think where i am talking about. Because of the fact that you can't splice these braided ropes Masterpull decided to made there thimble/hook connection by a knot. This is not a simple knot. The way the knot is made it's never wil get loose but wil get tighter with every more kg what goes into the knot. we have called them killer knots because they wil cut thrue the line as they where sharp as a knive. These knots wil kill the line they reduce the strenght of the line by 50-60%. In my time as being officially involved in the making/testing from al kind of hoisting/lifting/winching applications i have more then once contacted them that they sold a very dangerous solution to the people. but they revused to change there not as there is no other way to connect the thimble to these lines. I have used the same line on my own hydr.winch as Lara does and it never broke because of the knot. But in my testing facility it did and i can assure you that these machines are very accurat. The only explanation what i could come up with is the fact that during hard winching you never came close to the strenght where the knot would do it's work. To proof my theorie it did test in the real. I recorded al the real pulling strenghts of the hydr.winch on every layer and with a reading of the hydr.pressures in the systems. Soon as i had this data i could use it in the field. And even you are really stuck up to the doors i never got over the 3500 kg pulling power from the winch to free my self. I could do the same tests again with a calibrated loadcell to give even more proof. But stay away from a knot in the rope specially when it's a sort of hangman knot construction. The other thing i would like to correct is that somebody here in the topic said that dyneema and plasma are the same. They are not. The early dyneema ropes where sometimes breaking without real reason. The only reason why these ropes broke was the fact that they sold a dyneema rope from a total different sort. Still dyneema but not as strong as the SK-75 fibre. So in these days the dyneema rope got maybe a bad name because of that fact. The reason why the dyneema rope of Masterpull is so much stronger as the rest is lying in the fact that it's a pre-stretched rope. It starts it's live as a thicker rope but by heathing it up and then in the same time stretching it you get an incredible strong product. The end result is sold as DUX rope. There 11 mm is doing 18000 kg and there 9 mm is doing 12000. During my own tests with the rope i had even higher breaking rates when the rope was spliced as the factory. It al depends on how wel you make the splice. But in the reall live it's not that important as there is no winch out there what can break it. But when it's comes to determine the real breaking strenght then these details are very important. The reall rope killers are the fair leads used these days. Specially on challenge cars where very often the car has to pulled arround what means the ropes makes a 90 degree angle in the corner of the fairlead. Here the inner live of the fibres get killed. In fact the structure of the fibres in this area gets completly pulverised. You can't see nothing on the outside of the rope it al happens in the rope it self. That's why sometimes ropes seems to break without touching nothing on a straight pul. These ropes are sometimes allready very badly damaged in the core allready. When you would like to optimize the fairlead the diameter has to go up with big numbers and that's not really an option. Turning the rope around helps here. Drum side wil be hook side and the other way arround. But as stated before somwhere in this tropic it's very difficult to buy it here in Europe. Besides US there are not really many people who sell it. And the rope factory self is absolute not interested in selling a few 100 meters of it. They only selling it in 10000 of meters or even more. So the next best rope is in my opinion the one from Mr.Andy T. The Plasma rope. It's build with very high standards and it's a first class rope. But a completly different one from the the a have discribe here above. Hope that this wil give some serious information to the topic. Regards

I have put this web page in my computer and i wil not forget about it. Sure when i am in Sweden these sort of events getting much closer. I have done a few in Scandinavie so far and i like it out there. The way they organise events is different from what we do here. And then i mean the UK events not the Dutch ones. But yes i guess that it's something as Andras was doing in the past. Sounds very good. Did you do one your self already? Or planning to do one maybe??

Hi Dolly, It looks a little like the GPS events in Hungary years ago. And the specially the last ones.Big area and then hunt for points as many as you can get. But there it was 48 hours and in Finland it's 24 hours. Is there GPS involved? would say so!! Seems to be fun to this event.

Jezz, You have a web address maybe?? What area off Finland??

You have bin at ET Coevorden? They are working with landRover!!

Hi Fatboy i think you mis understood me. I helped that guy buying a car here in Holland and then he exported the car to Hungary. What i was trying to say is that this way he saved a lot of money

I have helped somebody in Hungary buying a brandnew Discovery. He bought one at last and he saved him self more then 7000 Euro's on the same car bought in Hungary. I am not sure if the same would go in your situation but the company where the Hungarian guy bought his car told us that he sold more as 30% of his total to other countries in Europe. Also to the UK!! Hope this is some help

Sorry Lawrence never seen this til now. Sended some photo's to your mail address. Rob

Nice Daan like that and specially your wheel arch. Very nicly done. you are running 35"isn't it?? Was thinking to do similair to create space for the 36" Any suggestions what you would change when you had to do it again?? rob

Galtech serie number two al fits to the PTO. Serie number 3 wil not fit at al you need to make a special adapter as i have done my self and then serie 3 pump wil fit.

Dolly, It looks like one big pleasant mad house really al great fun. Stil hoping one day. But i am getting closer to it anyway soon as i have made my move up north. As somebody ask before are there any video's dvd's yet?? rob

Nice video Paul that's excact how the Argyll was.