How do you dry your gear at-home? (textiles / not tools&equipment) Sister thread

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Chaplain242

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Due to Mediterranean climate and either general low volume or scheduling of work I have been able to avoid climbing in rain to save the hassle of drying and storing whilst drying my climbing gear. However of late I have been unable to schedule to dry days.

Wondering if there are any cool nifty drying setups people are using. Those guys that weather the storm regularly do you have any faster drying setups?

Also do drying rooms have any negative consequences to the gear that you have seen?
 
I coil it up loosely and hang it up in the basement. Our basement is pretty dry and we run a dehumidifier down there anyways. A damp basement probably wouldn't work though. I'd find somewhere else that's warmish and dry to hang it up.

My old partner would hang his stuff up in the same room as his wood stove every day in the winter and everything would be dry by the next morning. Not actually near the stove, just in the same room.

It could take longer than 1 night if the rope is totally saturated though. It's worth owning a few more climbing and rigging lines so you could switch ropes out every other day. I sometimes have to do this in the winter.
 
There have been a couple threads on this here at TB.

Limbwalker's (Louisville, KY) has a very large square wood structure w/ cross bars. There a lots of large hooks to drape multiple ropes from. It is attached to a rope that pulls it up to the high ceiling in the prep area (meetings, wood stove, saw storage & maintenance, parties, etc.)

There may be a picture buried in here.
 
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My rain gear is arcteryx goretex, which they say to wash regularly. If I haven't washed my gear in a few weeks and it was a particularly wet day, I will throw it into the washer and dryer. If not, I hang to dry in my storage locker. They are just shells, so they are dry by morning.

Rope I coil in our warehouse or in my storage locker if I end up going straight home from the job.
 
evo said:
Air.. if I need all my gear dry I hang it up on one of those collapsing clothes racks with a fan blowing on it. In winter it’s by the fire place. If it’s spring or summer, well I just work with wet gear, it drys out on the next job while working
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Same. However, I rarely let it sit overnight, even in the summer.
 
The advantage of having a regular truck... My ropes almost all stay on it. I flake them in turn onto the top of the box, usually about an hour each in the sun gets them nice and dry. Larger diameter ropes I normally "turn" and reflake once60759
 
Crimsonking said:
Same. However, I rarely let it sit overnight, even in the summer.
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Here in the PNW it’s no big deal to let fear sit wet or moist overnight in our three seasons of wet. Odds are it’s just going to get wet again the next day. If not it will likely dry out. Summer months is a little different though
 
evo said:
Here in the PNW it’s no big deal to let fear sit wet or moist overnight in our three seasons of wet. Odds are it’s just going to get wet again the next day. If not it will likely dry out. Summer months is a little different though
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@evo , what would you know about wet gear bro?. ;)

Best way to dry gear I've found is the woodstove. Also, just setting wet ropes in a tree and letting them hang there for a few hours on a dry day really helps too.
 
Oops, I misread the original post. I coil the rope up and let it hang over night in our warehouse. There are many months where you just have to accept that your gear will be wet most of the time.
 
RyanCafferky said:
@evo , what would you know about wet gear bro?. ;)

Best way to dry gear I've found is the woodstove. Also, just setting wet ropes in a tree and letting them hang there for a few hours on a dry day really helps too.
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Shh don’t tell anyone but I live in the rain shadow. Actually have prickly pear growing in spots
 
evo said:
Here in the PNW it’s no big deal to let fear sit wet or moist overnight in our three seasons of wet. Odds are it’s just going to get wet again the next day. If not it will likely dry out. Summer months is a little different though
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The thought of that makes me twitch.
 
Best set up I ever saw was at Kruljak Tree Service, New Kensington, PA. They took a metal storage cabinet, you know the kind with two doors. 8x3x2 or so. Cut vent holes on each shelf opposing. (First shelf cut on right, second on left and so on). At the bottom they cut a hole to fit the mouth of a floor blower fan. You could throw soaked ropes (fully coiled) harness, boots, whatever in there, close the doors fire up the fan and in the morning it was all dry.

Tony
 
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