Rigging Rope suggestions

It's crunchy. I'm always afraid of getting a plastic splinter when I touch it. It's amazing the success of this biz when it operates the way it does. Anyway. Still loving the Sirius. Have used the 12mm for everything. Haven't even used the bigger rope yet. Just haven t needed to.
 
So now that I have more ropes what are your thoughts on bags vs coiling? I got my some climbing and rigging lines in bags and the rest are coiled with ties to help keep the strands less tangled (cut up duffs work great for that). I think I like the bags better than coiling but it could just be that it is easier at the end of the day.
 
monkeylove said:
So now that I have more ropes what are your thoughts on bags vs coiling? I got my some climbing and rigging lines in bags and the rest are coiled with ties to help keep the strands less tangled (cut up duffs work great for that). I think I like the bags better than coiling but it could just be that it is easier at the end of the day.
Click to expand...
Ikea shopping bags are great for rigging lines...

Reed Wortley
CTSP #01739
ISA CA #SO-6953A
 
Coiling mostly makes me want punch somebody these days, although I recently adopted the Mumford over-the-head figure of 8 method, and that's kind of OK.

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
 
Ditto, on the Mumford 8, after which, I place in ABC Rope Bags, they peel out nicely and stack even nicer. I can stack them 4-5 high and as wide as space permits.


Dave6390 in WI
 
Fair warning, euc men will look at you as if you are engaged in deviant sexual behavior while using the Mumford 8 method.

Then again, they kind of do that for anything new...

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
 
Bags rock! They're inexpensive, color coded, semi water and mud proof, easy to throw in your trunk, backseat, pickup bed, etc, keep the rope knot, kink and tangle free, and easy to haul up the tree and drop down thru the exact set of branches/crotches you want. Modern ropes don't develop memory the way the old 3 strands did when they were coiled, but bags still keep them the most limber and flexible.
I still coil a few of my oldest, lowest ranking ropes that only get used a few times a year, just because they're not worth buying a bag for. You mentioned "coiled with ties." If you coil them properly, and I don't know if there is a name for the technique (coil, wrap, pull a bight thru, daisy chain then finish by tucking the tail thru), there isn't any need to add ties.
 
I use a sling or cordage loop to hang them on the rack, so as to allow any moisture or dried mud to flake off, and to see which ones I want to use for different mechanical and rigging devices. Moisture is the killer of many a rope!


Dave6390 in WI
 
monkeylove said:
what are your thoughts on bags vs coiling?
Click to expand...
manufacturers recommend flaking to prevent any stored memory issues so bag it and tag it.
doesn't actually have to be a bag, can be a tub box or container just remove the coil/twist from the equation.

fall_risk said:
Fair warning, euc men will look at you as if you are engaged in deviant sexual behavior while using the Mumford 8 method.
Click to expand...
Hey there cobber what you implying there :nocausagracia:
 
Stihlmadd said:
Hey there cobber what you implying there :nocausagracia:
Click to expand...
Ha, was referring to Don Blair's mythic archetypes of oak men and euc men from Arborist Equipment. Questions of sexual deviancy aside (living is a glass house and all), anyone with as much finesse and as innovative as you are has got to have some oak man in there, whether or not you actually climb eucs :-) If you've not read it, I recommend it.

But I'm serious though, some guys ask me why I'm doing it (oak tendencies), others gawk as if it's auto-erotic asphyxiation (euc all the way). Not that I don't see where they're coming from...

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
 
Last edited:
The Eucs in Montana de Oro State Park in Los Osos, Cali is where I started climbing. As the years went on I taught both of my daughters to climb as well.
The story of the Euc groves there, were that the Spaniards planted over 1000 acres of Eucs to build ships from them, unfortunately they are too heavy and oily, so they sink. This's what was told to me from local historians. They are where the Monarch butterflies migrate to every year, by the Billions! It's magnificent to walk amongst them and to climb high enough to see out over the Pacific! Absolutely Gorgeous! As well as, mesmerizing!


Dave6390 in WI
 
monkeylove said:
So now that I have more ropes what are your thoughts on bags vs coiling? I got my some climbing and rigging lines in bags and the rest are coiled with ties to help keep the strands less tangled (cut up duffs work great for that). I think I like the bags better than coiling but it could just be that it is easier at the end of the day.
Click to expand...
hmm, I can coil a rope way faster than I can fight it into a bag. I would love to bag my ropes but I am too lazy. weird. I coil over the shoulder.
 
treebing said:
hmm, I can coil a rope way faster than I can fight it into a bag.
Click to expand...
But can you coil it AND THEN uncoil it, working out the knots and hockles faster than you can bag it and redeploy it? I find the bags are especially great when doing multiple climbs back to back: Down out of 1 tree, stuff in bag (even crudely), carry bag to next tree and go right up.
I don't doubt you're a fast coiler, but what's less effort at the end of the day/week?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

New threads New posts

Back
Top Bottom