. Prairie Farmer's directory of Fulton County, Illinois. -ess now consists of unlaying one strand of each two pairs and layinginto its place its mate from the otherrope. In other words, strand 5 inFig. 9 is unlaid and strand 3 is laidinto its place toward the readersright. Then strand 2 from the leftrope is unlaid and its mate, strand 6,is laid into its place toward our third pair of strands remains inthe center. Cut ofif each strand sothat about five inches remains andwe will then have the partially com-pleted splice, as shown in Fig. each pair of ends, tie a simpleknot exact
. Prairie Farmer's directory of Fulton County, Illinois. -ess now consists of unlaying one strand of each two pairs and layinginto its place its mate from the otherrope. In other words, strand 5 inFig. 9 is unlaid and strand 3 is laidinto its place toward the readersright. Then strand 2 from the leftrope is unlaid and its mate, strand 6,is laid into its place toward our third pair of strands remains inthe center. Cut ofif each strand sothat about five inches remains andwe will then have the partially com-pleted splice, as shown in Fig. each pair of ends, tie a simpleknot exactly as shown in the upperhalf of Fig. 6 and weave the ends injust as we did when repairing abroken strand above. In making thesplice great care must be taken tokeep the original twist in all strands iiiiiiiliHiiiwiliniin rrr---^ *^*^^ -^^^-^s^^^c / nai^Bfe^^^^^b.^^ ^^^^BiHHHH o ^ ->-^\^m ^ ***^^^-Hs^/^ 2 ^^^ i^ . ^?v Figr. 6. Tying- Ends in Bepairingr a Broken Strand and in the Iiongf Splice,The Upper Simple Knot Is Correct. The lower Knot Is Wrong. rig. 7. Weave in the Ends as at B and D 33 PRAIRIE FARMERS RELIABLE DIRECTORY laid in, and in pulling each just tightenough so that it will carry its one-third of the load. A properly madelong splice is hard to detect exceptwhere the ends protrude. It does notincrease the diameter of the rope,and is the only splice which shouldbe used where the rope runs overpulleys. The lengths of long splicesfor ordinary farm ropes of differentsizes should be as follows: Vz inch rope—4 feet% inch rope—5 feet1 inch rope—6 feet This means that each end to bespliced will be unlaid back only one-half these distances. The same dis-tances can be safely used for repair-ing broken strands where new strandsare laid in. If you wish to take the twist outof a new rope before puting it intothe hay rigging, tie one end of the rope to a light wagon and drag therope about a meadow for twenty min-utes or so, drawing it sharply arounda tree or post if possi
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