Riggers Choice

...and that is always a bummer. Sterling atlas does it a lot too. It's a pain for ground-men when trying to lower and direct the limbs at the same time.

Does this have anything to do with being stored in a tight bag? Especially the last 50 foot or so that is not always in use and keeps its memory of sorts? Or the construction of the rope?
 
MikePowers321 said:
...and that is always a bummer. Sterling atlas does it a lot too. It's a pain for ground-men when trying to lower and direct the limbs at the same time.

Does this have anything to do with being stored in a tight bag? Especially the last 50 foot or so that is not always in use and keeps its memory of sorts? Or the construction of the rope?
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Not really sure. Think ur right about the last bit that doesn't get used as much. If u get the 14m def get a spliced eye.
 
kstreehuggerco said:
I switch ends of my rope every couple of jobs...
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That's what I do, too. Also seems to help to flake the rope out of the bag and lay it all out in the direction (in respect to the lowering device) the groundie will be working. Once it's all in place, I pull the rope up to the block, give it a few wraps and walk backwards away from the device, getting as much twist and kinks out of the rope as I can. Seems to help quite a bit, especially if you do it again every few drops.
 
Rope managment. GOTTA walk it out after cuts. The more you try to just leave it in the bag, the worse the problem gets at the end of the rope.
If i uses 9/16 - 5/8s rope regularly and did a lot of removals using them, I'd get something g with a real big bollard like a bullrigger bollard or whatever that beast is called.
We have a wide bollard that goes into a truck hitxh receiver at is pretty wide and although the rope is still all twisted, hockling is not a problem when it run thru the bollard
 
In reference to the hockling make sure your rope man switches direction on which way they put the rope into the porty or bollard. If you only have a GRCS, a Hobbs or some other ratcheting device you just have to deal with it since you can't very well change direction on those. Sometimes I'll pull the rope up so the hockled is just above ground and let it twist itself out.
 
I'll post a good review in another thread after a few days but so far so good. Minimal hockling. Pretty much just when the rope did t get flaked out well. Great knotability. Ran it natural crotch and xrr. Even took a big top and burned it down through the porty. No fuzz and no glazing. I woulda smoked the stable braid on that one. I whipped the ends so it wouldn't milk too badly and I haven't noticed any milking. So far I'm very happy.
 
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