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After about the 8th one, you'll get it right...

at least that's my experience from doing my lifelines. Keep in mind too that over time it will stretch out a bit as things settle down and the construction stretch of the line sucks out. Some manufacturers and riggers claim that you should be pretty careful when doing the taper prior to the bury, if not gradual a stress riser is created where the buried tail ends and that's where it breaks in tests.

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