Molly Hogan Loop: Broken Winch Cable Fix | Quick Trail Hack

Don't get stuck on the trail with a broken winch cable! Use this temporary fix to add a Molly Hogan Loop to the end of your cable. Watch More - goo.gl/zYYvJF
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[@burdettward8605]

I was taught this early in life. I'm 71. Great video my friend.

[@4wheelonline]

Right on! Thanks a ton for watching!

[@paulstuff5541]

As a lineman I have done this hundreds of time putting new eyes on our truck winch. A WORD OF CAUTION! WEAR SAFETY GLASSES! I had one of these legs slip out of my hands and ended up with a deep scratch across my glasses ... had I not been wearing them I would be blind today. The process works great - just be careful

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[@CheersWarren]

Hi the utility industry uses the Flemish splice all the tile to connect support cables for utility poles to dead eyes and other eye bolts to support the poles in many situations. The most important trick is how to burry the ends and I've seen guys lay then into the 'standing' or straight part of the cable using a screw driver inserted at the joint and twisting the ends into the wire , very clever.! Cheers Warren .

[@brianhaygood183]

I was taught this by a lineman like 35 years ago, and have found a lot of places to use it. So cool what one guy can pass along to a kid in 5 minutes. It was literally a day at a church camp sort of thing and he just decided to teach us something.

[@kendallwidner3503]

I bought a medium sized wooden spool of 9/16'' cable at a garage sale for $50.00. A friend of mine showed me how to do this braiding a loop on the end. I have made several 50' - 100- tow cables out of it. Comes in real handy when teenage kids call me up at midnight-1am stuck at the local reservoir mud bog when the tow truck can't get to them, I can. I like a loop on one end and a hook on the other attached with a heavy coupler of some type. A large D ring will work to attach a hook. Also smaller cable with loops on both ends work great for pulling logs, trees, ect... I made three choke cables when I was clearing river front property I bought. I'd wrap each choke cable around a bunch of brush/willows and hook all 3 to a chain. As I drove forward the cables tighten and pull lots of crap out in one pull.

[@probegt75]

Our mechanics in the coal mine use this method to install a new chain on a continuous miner. These chains weigh several tons and the cable never slips apart.

[@DatrysiadMedia]

Thanks for this, not related to being on the trail but more to do with filming. Needed to create a curve rail from pvc pipe and had some spare rope wire but didn't know how to create a nice loop either end so I could use a carabiner to join the two. Just finished it and its holding perfect now I can use just two light stands and have a curved track to hang the diffusion instead of using three or four stands to create the same effect. Awesome

[@esquad5406]

Works best cut clean at the end. You can cut it with a sharp steel Conner or a ax by hammering. Hard on the ax but it cuts clean. the longer the pig tail the stronger it will be.

[@billjaxin]

Great video but everybody seems to be calling a farmer's eye a molly splice, or something similar. A molly, or molly hogan, is a strand taken from a short piece of wire rope and braided into a circle. It's put through the hole in the pin of a safety shackle to prevent the nut on the pin from working loose.

[@GrinsInc]

Thanks for posting. So do you plan to leave the "tail" flopping around... maybe would you add clamps of some sort? 😁

[@stewartj3407]

Obviously if you had clamps you would just use them to make the loop. The point of this is to show how to do it on the trail with none of that. You’d just tape together the ends and your good to go.

[@kylebrown8891]

Stewart J this is actually stronger without a clamp than a loop without clamps. I usually just tape the end to main line with electrical tape or heavy duty heat shrink works good

[@billjaxin]

Anything strong enough to keep the loose ends out of the way under the conditions. Eliminating hang-ups, injury from wire strands etc. Cable clamps are the textbook answer but I think the idea in this video is, "Sht, the cable broke, how do I get the damn machine out of the ditch now?" so you'll work with what you have.

[@bandmasterjf]

I do this with 7x7 fishing line for shark fishing leaders. One end through the hook and the other through a swivel.

[@edbarrett5995]

Used this at one end of a metal cable for hanging a heavy mirror, used a bowline at the other end so I can adjust the height. Will tape the cable at the bowline end to double-check it's not slipping; it it is, I'll molly hogan that end through the loop on the other end.

[@jobama3588]

I'm not a doctor, but how is this any different from the way some cables come? As far as strength goes.

[@jasonh4167]

It’s the same as a factory end except the tail is shorter and they use a ferrel/sewage to tidy it up. No difference in strength.

[@moonlightg3510]

We use them in the Towboat industry also.

[@nobodythatyouknow241]

We call that a farmers eye. A molly hogan is made of one strand rolled into a circular loop.

[@joeblow8893]

You just helped out a ton.. thanks!

[@ronniejohnson9145]

We use in tower logging. We call it a farmers eye.

[@xarkava9648]

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[@nicklong9843]

I’ve seen it used in logging and the oil fields

[@haddonjacobs8956]

I've used it in the timber industry more time than I can count

[@johnme7049]

Very nice tip. Thanks

[@rustytygart405]

Ha any country boy worth his salt knows how to make a farmers loop and unlike you also knows how to finish those tag ends lol

[@swn02]

shit, with just a screw driver you could have done a 3 and 3 tuck and made even stronger

[@tomwood9857]

The man said no tools and easy and it was

[@wtfareyoulookingat2797]

Curious if that would work with a cable that breaks in the middle?

[@swn02]

you could do two eye splices that lie flat against each other, its like two eyes without the loops

[@nobodythatyouknow241]

If you know how to, you can do a long splice.

[@sighpocket5]

Nice!!!

[@normanjones629]

I don't know where you are from. That is not a "Molly Hogan". That is a farmer's eye. A molly hogan is entirely different.

[@vovadgandumbadze9196]

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[@elsagrace3893]

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