Rope reel?

[Serf Life]

Any good options out there? We regularly use 300+ foot 1/2 with winching setups.

 

[Dan Cobb]

If you want to buy something ready made, a hose reel is an option that could have enough capacity. Not the plastic crap designed for garden hoses, but an industrial type reel.

I suppose they'll have an inlet on the shaft and an elbow outlet on the spool. You could remove or cut off the elbow so it's not in the way. It might be cumbersome without wheels and a handle, but kits are available. (I looked at McMaster-Carr.)

 

[southsoundtree]

You won't be able to dry them on a reel, if needed. A plastic bin is way easy to stack into, multipurpose, waterproof, stackable.

I would like a little self- tailing, battery operated capstan for ropes and throw lines.

If anyone wants to invent one...

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Plastic suitcases are great for storing ropes.

Pink ones are the best!

 

[Bart_]

When you say self tailing you mean a well guided automatic peel off the capstan with a nice downward guide you can "aim" the rope with into the flake pile to distribute it? Could be done as a drill attachment.

 

[Reach]

Just buy a KingCoiler, that should be able to handle any rope you have! http://www.smithberger.com/potfishing_05.html

 

[Dan Cobb]

Just buy a KingCoiler, that should be able to handle any rope you have! http://www.smithberger.com/potfishing_05.html

I'll buy one if I can be a regular on Deadliest Branch!

 

[dmonn]

You won't be able to dry them on a reel, if needed. A plastic bin is way easy to stack into, multipurpose, waterproof, stackable.

I would like a little self- tailing, battery operated capstan for ropes and throw lines.

If anyone wants to invent one...

You could try an electric, two speed, self-tailing sailboat winch that's made for big sailboats, but it may cost you more than your truck!

 

[pete3d]

Keeping in mind that I manage a “Mickey Mouse” operation (with Chip, and Dale, and Alvin), and that even for Canada it’s a darn cold day (‘twas -35°C or -31°F when I arose, on the thermometer this morn, so you see me pictured lingering by the back door instead of in the bush) this is the “rope reel” solution I’m happily currently employing.

I do often manage 300’ winch lines for my Portable Winch, as being such a small operation, mostly engaged in personal woodlot improvement, I don’t wish to cut more trails for the skidder than absolutely necessary.
The rope bag pictured is one I made to “stand tall” and accommodate 600’ of 1/2” rope using very heavy duty canvas and sub-par (discount) seat belt webbing.
The chest harness (besides looking so cool) is also homemade from seatbelt webbing and can accommodate sundries. It’s fastened in front with a soft shackle made from the cover of 6mm double braid polyester, and it anchors a 1.1 inch Omni Block (which doubles as a swivel on the bridge of my harness, as I don’t climb and spool rope at the same time).

 

[southsoundtree]

Nice set up.


An easy open omni sound sketch on a bridge, imo.
What do you like about it?

 

[pete3d]

Nice set up.


An easy open omni sound sketch on a bridge, imo.
What do you like about it?

I got the idea from this forum, seeing some using the Omni SwivaBiner on their bridge, and thought of adding a carabiner to my OmniBlock for the same result. I really can’t see the block opening without some incredibly unlikely circumstances, but love is blind.

What do I like:
I’ve got it.
It’s essentially non- wearing on my bridge.
It’s super easy to put on or remove from either bridge (I’ve got 2).
Frictionless rolling about in the harness (some don’t like it, but I don’t mind).
It’s a fine piece of hardware with multiple other uses (and no I don’t use it as an arborist’s pulley for negative rigging or any heavy loads - a bit nutty I am - “Mickey Mouse” perhaps but not a total nut).

 

[southsoundtree]

Is it single action? Does one exposed button being depressed allow the cheek plate to open?

I haven't had mine in my hands in a while.



When I'm only on my steel- core flip-line, single-action swivel snap-hook, while recrotching, I'm watching that connection like a hawk.


Some people will climb all day, everyday on just one of the same flip lines.

Personally, I like boring, nothing surprising treework.

 

[pete3d]

Does one exposed button being depressed allow the cheek plate to open?

The OmniBlock requires a single completely recessed button to be fully depressed once, the cheek plate rotated, and then the button must be pushed again and the plate rotated once more to fully open the block.

On the other hand it only needs to be “snapped”, with no button pressing, closed.

 

[flushcut]

Just buy a KingCoiler, that should be able to handle any rope you have! http://www.smithberger.com/potfishing_05.html

So you just plug that bad boy into your mini’s high flow? Lol