Tie Line

[PeytonJr]

Its obvoiusly useful for a plethora of things, but does anybody know the load rating for a typical piece of tie line?
I'm NOT going to use it for anything stupid (flying people, anything else); I'm just curious.

[themuzicman]

last time I checked, 1/8" tie line is good for about 50lbs. SWL.

[derekleffew]

http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/s...h-tieline.html. What's the speed of a typical vehicle? Tricycle or Ferrari?

[PeytonJr]

Originally Posted by themuzicman

last time I checked, 1/8" tie line is good for about 50lbs. SWL.

yeah, i was talking about 1/8"


"Strength of tieline?. What's the speed of a typical vehicle? Tricycle or Ferrari?" (derekleffew)
Facepalm for not finding that.

[porkchop]

I would say that pretty much everything used as tie line would be unrated and therefore rated for 0 lbs. Personally I would expect an undamaged piece of 1/8" braided tie line to easily hold up 25 lbs and wouldn't really test it past that. That being said I wouldn't be surprised to see one piece hold up 50 lbs or more, but that just seems like pushing it given that some theatres reuse tie line constantly for years on end and that much wear and tear isn't worth testing.

[gafftaper]

I ranted quite a bit about unsafe use of tie line in the other thread linked above.

Short version:
If you find yourself asking, "I wonder if tie line is strong enough to hold this". DON'T DO IT!

[willbb123]

We recently had a spool of tie line donated to our theater. When he dropped it off he said that it could hold 300lbs. I wish he hadn't said this. Even with knowing that, I am only going to allow it to be used to tie coiled cables and tying cable to a batten.

[PeytonJr]

Originally Posted by willbb123

...used to tie coiled cables and tying cable to a batten.

same, although we also use it for tying drops to battens which, according to the wiki, is common practice. (smite me if i'm wrong)
I find that interesting because people don't trust it for hanging most everything, but drops with heavy weights in the bottom are exempt?

[willbb123]

Originally Posted by PeytonJr

same, although we also use it for tying drops to battens which, according to the wiki, is common practice. (smite me if i'm wrong)
I find that interesting because people don't trust it for hanging most everything, but drops with heavy weights in the bottom are exempt?

Oh yea, tying drops also. Most of the drops we rent come with tie line already attached, so I didn't even think about it.

I'm not a rigger, but I would think that since there are so many points connecting the drop to the batten, the load is spit up between all the pieces of tie line.

[cprted]

Originally Posted by PeytonJr

same, although we also use it for tying drops to battens which, according to the wiki, is common practice. (smite me if i'm wrong)
I find that interesting because people don't trust it for hanging most everything, but drops with heavy weights in the bottom are exempt?

When I use ties on drops, I'm only doing that on canvass drops that weigh less than 100lbs and there are usually about 50-60 ties attaching it to the batten.