Which rigging rope to buy!

Serf Life said:
Been thinking to get the 1/2inch sirius for speedlining as it is low stretch rigging and looks like a tight jacket. Never used it, your thoughts?
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My experience with Sirius lines is that they glaze easily. Check out superbraid, a Teufelberger line sold through Sherrill. It has a super tight jacket, and handles natty rigging very well. I bet it would be a good speed line option.
 
When I have to travel with limited space, and keep it to one line, my choice is 1/2” polydyne. It wears well, has great energy absorption for the big stuff, but can still be easily used for lifting/pulling without a lot of pretensioning. I am comfortable dumping 600-700# pieces of wood into it, more with a good ground guy. I almost never natural crotch rig, unless the piece is super small, or I am about to retire the line. I actually have a graveyard of 1/2 polydyne that I keep around for remote set natural crotch rigging.
What I keep in my trucks is two kits with similar hardware. One is 1/2” dynasorb, which has less stretch than polydyne. I do like a less stretchy line for rigging out the canopy, lifting, etc. I will probably go with 1/2” stable braid the next time I retire the line. The other kit is 5/8” atlas for big trees where I can take it REALLY big, or for negative blocking, which I think it is ideal for.
 
Oroboros said:
1/2" 3 strand should be in every tree climbers kit. Basic like having a saddle.
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Why? Literally the only time I use it is for the rope puller. For every other activity there is something better. In my opinion anyway. I guess some people like 3 strand, I just don't get it.
Important as a saddle? That is ludicrous.
 
If I only had one rigging rope, it would be 9/16th polydyne. Strong, versitle, great for rigging on blocks and rings, but it can handle a good deal of natural crotch too. Next choice would be 1/2 polydyne then 1/2 inch true blue. If I could only have one line.
 
RBJtree said:
Why? Literally the only time I use it is for the rope puller. For every other activity there is something better. In my opinion anyway. I guess some people like 3 strand, I just don't get it.
Important as a saddle? That is ludicrous.
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Curious as well, but have never rigged with 3 strand so I don't know the benefit other than cost and beat-up-ability. As to OP the arbormaster series is just lovely for light rigging, yale xtc is good for downgraded climb line too. Own 5/8 yale dynasorb (or whatever name you want) and it'll take what you throw at it. Yale and Sterling are Maine companies, made in USA, hard to beat, do custom work, employ local, gotta send promotion...
 
Honestly if blindfolded I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the 16 strand 1/2" ropes. Blue streak, XTC Fire, Safety Blue Hi-vee all perform exactly the same as far as I can tell. All tough stuff that works hard, just too bouncy for the SRS stuff I use these days but pretty nice for medium rigging.
 
Jehinten said:
My three go to rigging ropes is true blue, Hawkeye, and stable braid. All 3 run well in blocks and rings and the 12 and 16 strand work very well with natural crotch. The Hawkeye also gets used in the rig-n-wrench on occasion.

For natural crotch rigging I'd be less concerned with strength and more with abrasion resistance.
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About the same here! That twelve strand makes a good smoking rope, we’ve dropped some good sized black locust on it, the crunchy bits was just the fuzz, rope was like new after a few runs in the rain
 
evo said:
About the same here! That twelve strand makes a good smoking rope, we’ve dropped some good sized black locust on it, the crunchy bits was just the fuzz, rope was like new after a few runs in the rain
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Only issue I have had with XTC12 is the UV resistance. Only rope I know that after 1-2 year use in high UV environment starts to shed glitter. Rope works fine, just get glitter in eyes, inside shirt... annoying..
 
RBJtree said:
Why? Literally the only time I use it is for the rope puller. For every other activity there is something better. In my opinion anyway. I guess some people like 3 strand, I just don't get it.
Important as a saddle? That is ludicrous.
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I said basic like a saddle. Not important as a saddle.
Basic piece of a starter kit.
We need rope that we can beat on , pull with , drag through a dirty gully, etc and 3 strand is the stuff to do that with. It can be used in literally every situation. The load just needs to be sized so the rope can take it. And it is cheap. No crying required while using it.
Sure there are better ropes for every situation but a quiver of ropes is not what this guy is looking for nor is it what people start out with.

To the OP.
You really need several ropes.
5/8” is way too heavy for average use.
Again, my opinion.
 
Oroboros said:
I said basic like a saddle. Not important as a saddle.
Basic piece of a starter kit.
We need rope that we can beat on , pull with , drag through a dirty gully, etc and 3 strand is the stuff to do that with. It can be used in literally every situation. The load just needs to be sized so the rope can take it. And it is cheap. No crying required while using it.
Sure there are better ropes for every situation but a quiver of ropes is not what this guy is looking for nor is it what people start out with.

To the OP.
You really need several ropes.
5/8” is way too heavy for average use.
Again, my opinion.
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Alright that makes sense.
 
Oroboros said:
I said basic like a saddle. Not important as a saddle.
Basic piece of a starter kit.
We need rope that we can beat on , pull with , drag through a dirty gully, etc and 3 strand is the stuff to do that with. It can be used in literally every situation. The load just needs to be sized so the rope can take it. And it is cheap. No crying required while using it.
Sure there are better ropes for every situation but a quiver of ropes is not what this guy is looking for nor is it what people start out with.

To the OP.
You really need several ropes.
5/8” is way too heavy for average use.
Again, my opinion.
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I have a three strand natural fibre rope for the drag through mud stuff and it works great for that.

If doing bigger trees all the time 5/8 is great, but yes anything medium or small is excessive.
 
Nish said:
If I had only two rigging lines, it would be Tree Master 3-strand for light stuff and natural crotch rigging, using it whenever I could get away with it. Then I'd have 200' of double braid 5/8th for heavy stuff, pulling it out only when it's needed, using blocks or rings. If I could have four lines I would add some inexpensive 12-strand, a 9/16ths double braid, and I'd swap the 5/8ths for 3/4" double braid which would see only very occasional use.
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Since when is heavy stuff 100 ft. high? Are you in the pnw? I keep a 150' hank for heavy stuff.
 
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