Has anyone had difficulty with these? www.rigguy.com
I searched "wirestop" and "RIGGUY" and found nothing about it but a side comment by pancake. what thread are you referring to?There is at least one other discussion about it on the site.
In most current cabling systems, the anchor is static, and the cable has some capability to move within the eye of the bolt or j-lag without bending the cable.
Does that make sense?
In a healthy tree the lag/throughbolt will be engulfed and the tree tissue will be on the cable anyways
Anecdotal observations have great value when there is no research done.That is true, and that is also when you start to see cable failures happening, after the eye has been engulfed, the cable failures seem to usually happen at the "neck" of the dead end or wrap, if common grade cable.
This is just my observations over time, and should not be considered a substitute for a real scientific survey, of course.
Anecdotal observations have great value when there is no research done.
I've observed that "neck' failure too.
"I believe these cable stops could potentially lead to greater metal fatigue failure issues"
Please explain.
I think I see what situation you are describing, and maybe the cable failures are entirely age related, and don't have anything to do with the hardware type.
You say regular cable, does that mean non-HSS?
Were the cables under rated for the load application?
Were the cables misaligned at installation, putting a "kink" in them?
IMO the moment of bend will move slowly inwards at the tree covers them up.
My understanding is that the engulfing of the cable actually makes the system stronger as the wood fibers surround it.
My concern with the wirestop is that it may move in the hole enough to confound the engulfing process.
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