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Ron what is the slickline?
Im using Polypropylene now, little bulky for my cube, it’s wearing a hole through it. I had dynoglide, but hurts your fingers like hell when you try to pull you rope down.
 
Slickline is 3/16" or 1/4" woven polypropylene sorta like waterski rope but with a much nicer finish. It has a really stiff hand and it's heavy compared to a 1.75mm high mod. It doesn't lie in a cube very well.

For me, Slickline is a bitch to hand throw and if you're unlucky enough to contact it while it's flying, it'll burn you bad.


I've used 1.75mm Zing-it mostly but I just ordered a roll of 1.75mm Fling-it. I was impressed after I had the chance to try it out. It's nice when it's new, we'll see how that plays out with wear though. I really hate how they kinda ripped off the Zing-it name though.

Dynaglide sucks. The coating comes off immediately and then it doesn't glide easily at all. It's the only NE Ropes product I don't like.

All the small hi-mods like Zing-it hurt to pull once they get stuck or after the rope pulls over the wood. Do it a couple of weeks though and you'll get callouses that make it much more tolerable. That's how you know a climber by shaking their hand, throwline callouses.

Hi-mods are worth the trouble because they are so easy to throw. You can make a 12oz weight sail 50' with practically no effort at all and 70' with just a little extra snap.

Accuracy is entirely a different question and one I don't care to address. I've almost been reduced to tears by a throwline.
 
SlickLine is a brand name; I think it is polypropylene. It does have a bit of a 'memory', i.e. kinks tend to form where knots were tied, but that's a minimal problem to me.

It's a much thicker line than ZingIt and that's one reason I like it.

Wesspur carries 'Slick Line', but this doesn't look like my SlickLine, but maybe it's an 'improved' version???

http://www.wesspur.com/Throw-line/zing-it-throw-line.html

It's similar to Target Line, but Target Line seems awfully stretchy to me.

Interesting, I find it as easy to throw as the smaller lines and much easier to handle. But, true, it doesn't pack up as tight, but then the upside to that is it doesn't tangle as easily either.

Let me qualify that just a bit - I'm usually not throwing real high with any line. If it's over 30', I shoot it, and Slick Line may not shoot quite as far as some of the smaller lines, but that's not as significant to me as it would be others.
 
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Ron what is the slickline?
Im using Polypropylene now, little bulky for my cube, it’s wearing a hole through it. I had dynoglide, but hurts your fingers like hell when you try to pull you rope down.

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Two words: Atlas gloves
For pulling on the 2.2mm and smaller throwlines

I think I'm the only climber on the planet who likes Dynaglide. It throws higher than same diameter ZingIt and it's softer on the hand (if you're not cranking hard on it) ZingIt is worse on your hands. The more my Dynaglide breaks in the better I like it (became less tangly). My ZingIt 2.2mm is now my backup. 1.75mm ZingIt is insanely tangly, must be a very patient person to use it, I gave up on it.
-moss
 
Duh! Do I feel stupid, JUST because you throw a line doesn't mean it is going through where you intended it too!

I find that ALL brands are hard on the hands, thats why I find a stick to rap it on when it gets stuck.
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Duh! Do I feel stupid, JUST because you throw a line doesn't mean it is going through where you intended it too!

I find that ALL brands are hard on the hands, thats why I find a stick to rap it on when it gets stuck.
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Here's the extreme version: Cut a 10 ft. lever from a sapling, redirect the throwline with a sling and micropulley low on a small tree, wrap the throwline around the upper part of the lever, get up on a stone wall or something high enough, plant the bottom of the stick, jump (pole vault)! Ba-boom, out comes the deadwood with throwbag, or broken throwline, take your pick, both have happened.
-moss
 
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only 1.75 zing it, for throwing and bigshot. It can hurt your hands - might it hurt the tree more too?

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For thin barked species and upper branches it's going to cut into the bark. Then again when you're working the bag there's always some small branches torn out etc. no matter what diameter line you're using. On flaky barked trees like Loblolly Pine and White Oak the 1.75mm stuff is going to grab more, something fat like slickline, much less. Always trade-offs
-moss
 
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