New Rope?

Samson True Blue is my choice, it's a bit oversized and heavy, non-spliceable, but has a lower stretch than any of the ropes you're considering.

All my bodylines are True Blue.

jomoco
 
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I own the tachiyon line as well but it just doesn't hold up well. I flew that thing on a pulley 90% of the time and it is now due for retirement. I've had my pi line twice as long and it's still in climbable shape.

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I was wondering about wear with Tachyon. I really like how it feels and everything but I had a lanyard made with Tachyon and it didn't last very long... pines roughed it up pretty bad.
 
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Samson True Blue is my choice, it's a bit oversized and heavy, non-spliceable, but has a lower stretch than any of the ropes you're considering.

All my bodylines are True Blue.

jomoco

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At 10% load, True Blue stretchs 2.6%. I find that it stretchs more than 1/2" 16 strands and is extremely heavy.
 
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Samson True Blue is my choice, it's a bit oversized and heavy, non-spliceable, but has a lower stretch than any of the ropes you're considering.

All my bodylines are True Blue.

jomoco

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At 10% load, True Blue stretchs 2.6%. I find that it stretchs more than 1/2" 16 strands and is extremely heavy.

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A 10% load on True Blue is 730 pounds Norm.

That said, about 10 years ago a group of local climbers here decided to do a little low tech testing on various climbing lines available to us at that time.

We took the 5 top brands and cut some 25 foot hanks for testing with my trusty 84 Toyota 4X4 tooltruck. We tied one end of the hanks to a big stump, and the other end to my truck's front bumper, a 3 inch tube. In low four wheel drive I gently backed up until each rope was taught, then dumped the clutch. Each rope of the 5 tested in this manner snapped except for the True Blue which stalled my truck.

Needless to say we all bought 600 foot roles of True Blue.

Pretty low tech testing I know, but seeing is believing!

jomoco
 
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At 10% load, True Blue stretchs 2.6%. I find that it stretchs more than 1/2" 16 strands and is extremely heavy.

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Agree completely. True blue is utter crap compaired to newer ropes. I rather use 3 strand then this crap.

It didn't break cause it streched 3 times more than the other ropes. the other ropes were probally at their full stretch. Did they break at the knots tied? or did they break in the middle?
 
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At 10% load, True Blue stretchs 2.6%. I find that it stretchs more than 1/2" 16 strands and is extremely heavy.

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Agree completely. True blue is utter crap compaired to newer ropes. I rather use 3 strand then this crap.

It didn't break cause it streched 3 times more than the other ropes. the other ropes were probally at their full stretch. Did they break at the knots tied? or did they break in the middle?

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They all broke at the knots Hollenreich, some at the stump, some at the bumper, except the True Blue.

I readily admit that I'm about 10 years out of date here.

I understand that there are now 1/2 inch lines with ratings that exceed 8K pounds.

jomoco
 
I’m with TLHamel My personal choice is Tachyon (Lava), but considering your three picks I would say Poison Ivy. I have PI and I love mine, low stretch, light, and nice feel. Good eye splice. I had a problem with the velocity milking and binding up the climbing hitch. I bought one of the first velocity off the lot! used it a couple of times and never again! Great for foot lock but milk like crazy. It was long ago so perhaps they fixed the milking problem but what a pain. I milked 2 foot of cover off the core and it was still milking!!!!!
 
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