Product range
Rope & Cordage
DynIce and Dyneema rope, mooring lines, and towing systems for fishing, marine, and offshore work.
Services
Rope Splicing & Rigging
Rope and wire splicing, Dyneema splicing, crane cables, terminations, bridles and strops.
The service
A splice is only as good as the number you can put on it.
Every Dyneema rope table Hampidjan publishes carries the same caution: splicing can reduce strength by up to 10% of the table breaking strength. That figure is the whole craft — a good splice keeps what it can, and a bad one gives away more than you budgeted for.
We splice wire and synthetic rope in all dimensions and in every construction that comes through the door — 3-strand and 8-strand, 12-strand braided such as DynIce, Dux, Prima and Robus, the same ropes with a cover braid, double braid, and wire — terminating to thimble eyes, soft eyes, hook terminations, ferrules and covered eyes. What the job lands on decides the termination; what it has to survive decides the rope.
Because the 500,000 lb test bed is in the same building, we are in a position to prove a termination rather than quote someone else's number for it.
Capabilities
What we do
Rope splicing and wire splicing in all dimensions — Dyneema splicing, crane cables, terminations, covered eyes, bridles and strops — built into working assemblies and testable on our own bed.
Every construction we sell
3-strand and 8-strand, 12-strand braided, the same ropes covered, double braid, and wire.
Bare or covered
DynIce, Prima and Robus are each made both ways, and we splice them either way.
Eyes and terminations
Thimble eyes, soft eyes, hand-spliced eyes and hook terminations, in rope and wire.
Two kinds of sleeve
Braided protective sleeves guard a rope eye or a wear point — doubled or tripled where it takes real abrasion. Steel ferrules do a different job: the wire is formed into an eye and the ends secured in the sleeve, pressed in the press.
Wire splicing and pressing
Hand spliced or clamped in the press, in galvanized, stainless, combination and PVC-covered wire — crane cables included.
Bridles and strops
Made to order, to the length and breaking strength the job asks for.
Wire measurement and marking
Warps measured and marked so what is on the drum is what you think is on the drum.
Turning and repair
Turning of wires and warps, and repair of your own wire.
Fitted on the vessel
New wires and warps installed on board, not just sold over the counter.
The bench
Construction decides the splice.
What holds in 12-strand Dyneema is not what holds in 3-strand nylon or in wire. The construction decides the termination, and the application decides the construction.
| Construction | Ropes we work with | Terminations | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-strand twisted | Nylon, polyester, polysteel | Hand-spliced eyes, thimble eyes, soft eyes | Moorings, lazy lines, general deck work |
| 8-strand braided | Nylon and polyester mooring rope | Hand-spliced eyes, thimble eyes | Mooring and dock lines |
| 12-strand braided | HMPE — DynIce 75 (4–84 mm), DynIce Dux (7–51 mm), Prima, Robus. Nylon — Nylex. | Eye splices, soft eyes, covered eyes, protective sleeves | Bridles, back strops, warps, towing |
| 12-strand with a cover braid | The same ropes supplied with a protective cover — DynIce, Prima and Robus are each made both ways | Eye splices with the cover carried through | Where abrasion is the limiting factor |
| Double braid | Nylon and polyester double braid, including rope you bring us | Eye splices worked core and cover, thimble eyes | Mooring and dock lines, general marine |
| Wire rope | Galvanized, stainless, combination and PVC-covered steel | Hand-spliced eyes, eyes pressed into steel ferrules, thimble eyes, wire socks | Warps, bridles, crane cables, lifting assemblies |
| Finished assemblies | Any of the above, made to your length | Hook terminations, master links, shackle eyes | Built to the fitting it lands on |
Scroll the table sideways for all 4 columns.
Not everything on this bench is ours to begin with — we splice an eye in the rope of your choosing. Diameters and figures are the published Hampidjan tables; the finished assembly is sized for your job rather than read off a chart, and it can go on the bed before it leaves.
The shop floor
Spliced here. Proved next door.
Every photograph below is our own bench, our own tooling and work that left the door. Most riggers can splice; not many can walk the finished assembly into the next bay, put it under load and hand you the documentation for it.
Where the rope lands
Prima spliced around a heavy steel thimble, because the fitting on your gear decides the end we build — thimble, soft eye, hook or master link.
Wire, spliced by hand
The rope clamped, the strands opened and tucked back into the lay one at a time. Slower than a ferrule, and the right answer when the end has to run over a sheave.
Pressed, not tucked
The other way to finish a wire end. The eye is formed, a steel ferrule slid over both parts, and the whole thing squeezed shut in the dies.
- Wire capacity
- up to 38 mm
What comes out of it
The thimble seated in the eye, the steel ferrule squeezed shut below it. No tucks and no tail — the termination is the sleeve and what it grips.
Covered where it chafes
A braided sleeve carried over the eye and the wear points, doubled or tripled where the rope works against steel. It takes the abrasion instead of the rope, which is how the assembly stays in service longer.
Assemblies, made to length
Each leg sleeved in rubber spacers along its length, terminated in a pressed soft eye and tailed with chain. Built to the length and the fitting the job asks for.
Tagged and staged
Finished assemblies coiled, whipped and tagged on the pallet. Each tag records the job number, length, wire type and build specification.
Coiled and ready
The eye finished with a sleeve pressed over the wire where it doubles back, then the whole length coiled on the drum and ready to go out.
The test bed, next door
An assembly we splice can go straight onto the 500,000 lb bed and leave with the applicable test certificate for that item. The photograph is exactly that: our own splice, under load, on our own bed.
- Rated capacity
- 500,000 lb (226.8 t)
- Usable bed
- approx. 20 ft, extends by arrangement
- Modes
- Proof test and break test
What you get back
An assembly, made to a length and a load.
Rigging is not a product off a shelf. What leaves the bench is built for the job you described, and it can leave with evidence rather than assurance.
- 01
The finished assembly
Spliced and terminated to the length and rating the job asks for.
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Test certificate, on request
Proof tested on our own bed before it leaves, with the certificate for the item.
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Fitted, if you want it fitted
New wires and warps installed on the vessel, not handed over the counter.
Process
How we work
One conversation starts it — we scope the job, do the work, and stand behind it through the season.
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Tell us the job
The load, the length, the fitting it has to land on, and whether it is going back on the same vessel.
- 02
Spec the assembly
Material and diameter sized to the working load, and the termination chosen for the fitting it lands on.
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Splice and terminate
Hand spliced or clamped in the press, to thimbles, ferrules or covered eyes.
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Test it, if you want it tested
Straight onto the 500,000 lb bed, and out with the applicable test certificate for that item. Say so when you order — it changes the schedule.
Typical workTrawl bridles and back stropsMooring eyes in 3 and 8-strandThimble and soft eyesHook terminations and assembliesWarps measured, marked and fittedCrane cables spliced and terminated
Solutions
Rope Splicing & Rigging, and everything around it.
We supply the gear and we do the work. Both halves come from the same four shops.
Gear we supply for this work
All products
Product range
Wire, Rigging & Lifting
Wire rope, thimbles, ferrules, shackles, and the hardware a finished assembly lands on.
Where this work shows up
All industries
Local support
Rope Splicing & Rigging at four Atlantic Canada branches.
Bring gear to the nearest shop or call — every request routes to the right crew, and in-season work is scheduled around your openings.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Hampidjan's own rope tables state that splicing can reduce strength by up to 10% of the table breaking strength. We size the assembly with that accounted for — and because the test bed is in the same building, a termination can be proved rather than assumed.
3-strand twisted, 8-strand braided, 12-strand braided, and double braid. The 12-strand group covers the HMPE ropes we sell most of — DynIce, Dux, Prima and Robus — each made bare or with a protective cover braid, and we splice them either way. Double braid is spliced core and cover. Wire rope we splice and press as well, in galvanized, stainless, combination and PVC-covered. Tell us the rope and the fitting and we will tell you the splice.
Thimble eyes, soft eyes, hand-spliced eyes, hook terminations, ferrules clamped in the press, and covered eyes — for marine and industrial work alike. If it lands on a fitting, we build the end to suit it.
Both, in all dimensions. Wire is hand spliced or clamped in the press — including crane cables, spliced and terminated to the fitting the machine takes — and we also measure, mark, turn and repair your own wire.
We splice what we can inspect. If the rope has a history we cannot establish — where it came from, what it has already lifted, how it has been stored — it gets tested, not assumed. That is the whole point of having the bed next door.
Yes. New wires and warps can be installed on the vessel rather than handed over the counter.
Yes — say so when you order, because testing changes the schedule. It goes onto our 500,000 lb bed and leaves with the applicable test certificate for the item. The usable bed is about 20 ft; longer assemblies are testable, but the extended setup has to be arranged in advance.
Start a quote. We route it to the right branch.
Send specs, photos, drawings, or inspection and testing requests. Your reply comes from the branch that will do the work.