Need help on how to dry gear!!

Living in the tropics drying gear is rather easy. We use ceiling fans in all the rooms, so I just uncoil the ropes, prussics plus rigging slings and dead eyes and take everything off the harness and as said above let the air circulate. If the ropes are wet and dirty I will wash them first which leaves them even dryer. Wet boots are a whole different kettle of fish. Can take days, to dry them properly.
 
Move out of Georgia, preferably somewhere where it is drier. One of the biggest things I hate about the south.
 
If you got a mid-size closet you can hang a flood light in the top of the closet place a carpet drying fan on the floor blowing under the door.Let the light warm air up before you turn the fan on.If you can't get your hands on a carpet fan use a box fan just leave the door cracked open a bit may have to put something in front of the door if it a swinging door not a slider. Hang your gear if some gear drys to fast its going to be stiff like a saddle I always place it close to the fan so the heat won't shrink it.

Take a towel to gear make sure its not dripping wet!I used to have a cedar standing closet I used to dry gear.I moved and didn't want to haul it now I kick myself every time I get my gear wet..

Good luck..keep it safe
 
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If you got a mid-size closet you can hang a flood light in the top of the closet place a carpet drying fan on the floor blowing under the door.Let the light warm air up before you turn the fan on.If you can't get your hands on a carpet fan use a box fan just leave the door cracked open a bit may have to put something in front of the door if it a swinging door not a slider. Hang your gear if some gear drys to fast its going to be stiff like a saddle I always place it close to the fan so the heat won't shrink it.

Take a towel to gear make sure its not dripping wet!I used to have a cedar standing closet I used to dry gear.I moved and didn't want to haul it now I kick myself every time I get my gear wet..

Good luck..keep it safe

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This sounds like a really complicated solution to a simple problem. If you don't want to just hang it up, do what Tom said and use chinchilla powder. It actually works REALLY well.
 
Placing your chinchillas in a pile of fine powder might not seem like the best way to keep the animal clean, unless that animal happens to be a chinchilla…in which case it’s the only way! A product called “chinchilla dust” has been developed to bathe chinchillas and keep their fur soft. Although it may sound exotic, chinchilla dust is actually derived from an ordinary product – concrete.
 
I find that using the wet gear in the sunshine is effective. And if its rain that you're working in again well hey, no time wasted drying it out.
 
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