Thread: winch rope

Is the wear in a place where you could just cut the end off and shorten the rope?

I splice as per the video posted, only differences, the tapering and thinning he does at the end, I do it first and tape up the rope with electrical tape, I found this makes it easier to thread and you just remove the tape at the end.
The other thing is when you thread the end through from side to side don't go through on a right angle, Go at an angle that nearly matches the line of the braid, go through 4 times. making a fid from a biro or wooden skewer is easy. tail length of at least 60cm inside the main line.

https://youtu.be/Xavi1qzlfAI