I am trying to find the sliding hardware on these crossties:
Dura-Tech® Overhead Aisle Tie | Schneiders Saddlery (sstack.com)
Looking for the bit that looks like a cuff on the rope with an eyebolt screwed into it. Search is difficult since I have no idea what it is called. Anyone have any ideas?
I bet that’s a piece of sailing hardware. If you just can’t turn anything up, maybe one of the companies that sell that sort of stuff could point you in the right direction with a screenshot?
Check the Endurance forum since some of those guys use a lot of highline tying in camps, they probably know what works well.
I am so confused, what is the point of this? In what application is this better than just putting an eyehook into the wall/beam on each side?
It allows the horse to move totally over to one side.
Personally, I wouldn’t do it, but I can see its value in a higher traffic boarding situation where it’s a pain to move around horses cross-tied normally, even high.
At least for me, this is a horseshow situation, so people can get around when I am tied in the barn aisle.
I have regular cross ties at home.
Yes, but I just want the hardware. I don’t want to pay $50 for this set up
if you use sailing rigging each snap is going to cost more than the complete kit
https://www.riggingandhardware.com/p-47236-wichard-3-14-quick-release-large-eye.aspx
Sailing rigging is going to be stainless steel. I’m trying to think of something else less expensive that would work - if she really needs this set-up.
I too don’t get the value UNLESS it’s a high traffic barn.
I looked at my lead ropes, the snap end is on a large oval which could be used to slide on a rope if you just cut them off the lead. Mine are brass so slide easily on a rope.
Cheap overhead line would be a 25 foot lunge line
Hubs says maybe called eyebolt collets that the screw eye looking parts are in 
I would go to lowes, show them what you are looking for ans have them show you pieces that can essentially create that for you. Another tip from my mcguever hubs lol.
Or bronze. If you scrape off the horse crap I’m really a sailor. Never brass on a boat (on saltwater). Bronze is harder and stronger. Brass doesn’t last anywhere near as long in part because the alloy breaks down and you wind up with copper.
The piece that the line runs through is not something that would work on a boat. Dynamics are all wrong.
Sailing and horses do have something in common. You aren’t going particularly fast so you can enjoy the scenery. The days when I miss sailing but I’m on my horse are really sunny, around 70 with a nice breeze. When I had to give up sailing I wasn’t too upset because being on the ground on a horse is safer than being on the water in a boat, which can sink.
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But… if those pieces slide easily, it’s not really even a cross tie anymore. The horse moving around will jiggle those slidey pieces to the center, and then you basically have a long double straight tie.
I see what you’re saying, though now I’m imagining moving horsie over and then trying to swing the rope back over without untying it to fling it, and then if I had to untie it to fling it then why didn’t I just unclip one side and scoot horsie over to start with? 
You could probably use something like this, which comes in a variety of sizes, all fairly substantial.
Thread your overhead rope through it, screw a normal eye bolt through the tap to put as much tension on your overhead cross rope as needed and then attach standard cross ties to the eye bolt end.
I would think long and hard about safety release points though, because God help you if the whole thing came down with a fighting horse! That would be U G L Y!
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