Sterling 12.5mm WorkPro.

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Not a lot of talk on this rope so I'm looking for some real world experience with this rope. My grumpy old hands are about done fucking around with 11mm ropes. Still love flying my old 13mm 16 strands but the bounce is killing me.
 
southsoundtree said:
I don't like 11mm at all, for gripping and working.

I have an 11.7 yale that is small for my hands.

Wish that Richard would make a nice foam grip that is slightly larger than the rope, so when you grab it, it grabs, but would slide up easily. Simpler, lighter and cheaper than a Wrist Rocket.
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I agree about larger diameter ropes being easier to grip. Sometimes I use an un-tethered hand ascender to hold onto when ascending on my ropewalking system. I use that for my Rads set up too, together with a non-locking Rollclip. A spongy hand grip idea is great. Maybe adding a few wraps of a tennis racquet handle's gripping tape around a hand ascender's grip might help too.
 
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I've been switching back and forth from yale 11.7 and 13mm km3. It's so much easier to grip the 13! Too bad I can't get the wrench to work well on the 13, but the hh2 works great. I remember someone saying something about the 12.5 work pro a while back, but I can't remember where or who... or what they said.
 
RBJtree said:
I've been switching back and forth from yale 11.7 and 13mm km3. It's so much easier to grip the 13! Too bad I can't get the wrench to work well on the 13, but the hh2 works great. I remember someone saying something about the 12.5 work pro a while back, but I can't remember where or who... or what they said.
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I run my Wrench on 13mm safety blue a lot and it falls through the wrench like water. I really need a 12.5-13 mm rope with very little bounce.
 
rico said:
I run my Wrench on 13mm safety blue a lot and it falls through the wrench like water. I really need a 12.5-13 mm rope with very little bounce.
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With the 13mm km3, the wrench is good durring assent or steep decent, tending is fine, it's walking out a limb or almost any horizontal traverse that sucks because the wrench gives too much friction and it's hard to pull it down the rope. Or it doesn't decend well unless its almost totally vertical.
I don't get the chance to climb 200 foot trees base tied, but I've had the 13mm km3 at 70 foot base tied and 90 foot canopy tied and it had pretty much zero stretch or bounce. Far less than any other rope I have tried and real easy to grip due to it's 2 over 2 braid. 32 strand I believe. Nearly zero milking too, I got about 3 inches out of 150 feet after several climbs. Don't they make htp in 12.5 or 13? I'm surprised your not running that.
 
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southsoundtree said:
I don't like 11mm at all, for gripping and working.

I have an 11.7 yale that is small for my hands.

Wish that Richard would make a nice foam grip that is slightly larger than the rope, so when you grab it, it grabs, but would slide up easily. Simpler, lighter and cheaper than a Wrist Rocket.
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There used to be a petzl basic with a big, fluffy, rope handle hanging below it at one of the online retailers. Like maybe a 1" piece of rope around six inches long?
I have big soft rubber handles on my double handled CT. It is far nicer than the stuff that came on it. I cut some pieces from a radiator hose to fit.
 
RBJtree said:
With the 13mm km3, the wrench is good durring assent or steep decent, tending is fine, it's walking out a limb or almost any horizontal traverse that sucks because the wrench gives too much friction and it's hard to pull it down the rope. Or it doesn't decend well unless its almost totally vertical.
I don't get the chance to climb 200 foot trees base tied, but I've had the 13mm km3 at 70 foot base tied and 90 foot canopy tied and it had pretty much zero stretch or bounce. Far less than any other rope I have tried and real easy to grip due to it's 2 over 2 braid. 32 strand I believe. Nearly zero milking too, I got about 3 inches out of 150 feet after several climbs. Don't they make htp in 12.5 or 13? I'm surprised your not running that.
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1/2" HTP-https://sterlingrope.com/store/work/ropes/static/htp/1-2-htp
 
No. I have some 1/2" KM but have never had my hands on 1/2" HTP. I believe Evo has some and is not a fan? I love my 11mm HTP so I'm thinking it may be a great rope for my needs. Unfortunately taking a chance on 300-325 ft hank of rope can turn into a $350-$400 fuckup if I don't like it.
 
I thought you had the HTP, as well.

I run 1/2" htp with my HH. Just had a 100' truck tie, and bounced on it a little off the ground, check check. Almost no stretch.


Low stretch. Its not really fuzzed up. I should probably have washed it. A bit slick on my hands compared to a 16 or 12 strand for sure.

I likey.

Do not shockload onto it, like a natural redirect slipping, or a sprout just above your solid redirect, that holds then fails.
 
I have been running the 11mm HTP for a while now and love it, but am looking for something a little bigger (12-13mm). I have come to loath bounce so my options are limited. Enter the 12.5 mm HTP?
 
I'd probably love the 12.5 Workpro, because I love my HTP 7/16. The only thing that concerns me, which comes from a reliable source, is how well the HTP works on a Runner, given the way HTP can flatten. Workpro 12.5 - no problem. Loving my 11.8 Drenaline too, because it works so well on my mechanicals.
 
The specs listed for 12.5 work pro say it's more elastic than 12.5 htp, but that doesn't always pan out in real world use. Blue moon is supposed to be more static than than 13mm km3, but I get no stretch from either at my max heights.
 
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