Two hogchains

Postby Harold » Thu May 17, 2012 7:02 am

After an absense, I was able to do a hogchain. Using the rinse cups (3 oz) for bathrooms and some twist ties I found everything can be frozen in one step if the twist tie is shaped to stay near the top of the cup (see earlier post Bondage in the Sun Room) and hold for nearly two hours at room temperature.

To get the chain ready (padlock and handcuff key were in a suspended ice cup), I put the end link on the lock shackle keeping the keyhole side up, count enough links to hold my right ankle without slipping off (doesn't have to be tight), put that link on the shakle, count about 17-20 links that my cuffs will be threaded through (middle loop) and put the next one on the shakle, secure the left ankle and lock it. When my hands pull on my feet, the force is shared equally.

One of the cuffs I was using (related thread: here) didn't grab the jaw as it was supposed to and I couldn't get it to lock (other wrist was already secured). Normally I am on my back and rock my shoulders to get as close as possible to my feet to lock the cuffs and feel that the middle loop of chain comes straight out. Because of my trouble getting the last cuff on, I was on my side when it locked but was immediately aware of how tight it was (fingertips brushing ankles) and my ankles were being pinched. The middle loop had gone up towards my knees, forward, then under my ankles before being locked to my cuffs. Fortunately I had not tightened the cuff to the slot where I normally wear it--it was looser but not by much.

The next 80 minutes were agonizing as I could relieve the pain in one area at the expense of another. On my back with my legs bent as much as possible I could hold the lock so it wouldn't pull on the middle loop, but that would cause more pain in my legs. Finally I tried one last time to pull my right hand out of the cuff and fortunately that cuff slipped a knotch (if it had been working properly there would have been no problem in the first place) and I could get it out only a few minutes before the ice cup released a key. I was really sore the next day.

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I do this in my near totally dark bedroom on a towel near my chest of drawers. I had taken the rinse cup off the ice and hung it from a yardstick from the top of the chest of drawers over a hard plastic bowl with a towel on it. The padlock key was near the edge of the ice so I expected a not very long ride. After securing my feet (2nd para) I stood up to turn off the light, but must have bumped the yardstick while getting back on the floor. I thought I heard something drop after about 30 minutes but when I rolled over I felt nothing in the bowl. About an hour later I noted the dripping from the ice had slowed considerably and decided the padlock key had indeed dropped but missed the bowl. After getting on my back I "walked" around the bowl and felt the key under my feet and was free in a minute. Able to stand up I got out of the cuffs with a different key and the well centered key in the ice cup fell about ten minutes later.