1" Rope Supplier

[Lumberjack]

I have found a supplier of new (duh) 1" rope rated to 28.9k ABS that sells it for 1 dollar a foot plus shipping. It is a double braid and I am working on getting a sample of the rope to check out the quality and to get some specs on it. Let me know if you are interested.

Carl

 

[rahtreelimbs]

What are you roping that you need a rope of that size?

 

[NickfromWI]

One inch double braid with a ABS of 44,000lb....

http://yalecordage.com/html/industrial/double_esterlon.html

Check it out!

love
nick

 

[treeman82]

Get a hank of 7/8" stable braid. Same tensile strength but a bit lighter. I checked out some 1" stable braid, HEAVY!!! NOT something I would want to have to haul around in a tree with me... and that was just a 20' sling! It had a tensile strength of >40,000 lbs. I was told that 200 feet of it would run about $600

 

[Lumberjack]

I think that it would be a good rope to pull with when using a truck to keep the rope in its work load. Also it would be good to set up a overhead workline.

This rope isn't the highest strength for its size and braid, but its price is hard to beat for that level of strength, with weight being it main drawback. 70' weights around 17 pounds I think so yea it is very heavy, but I could deal with that. The 7/8" cost 3 times the 1" stuff, but if I were gonna do a huge rigging job where money was no problem, then I would go with yale, samson
or another higher class manufacture.

I will be getting a 6" sample in the mail with its specs prob tues or wed. The rope is made by Wellington.

Carl

 

[Stumper]

I think that 1" rope is a tremendous overkill for 90%+ of practicing arborists. The price sounds good enough. I've used several Wellington lines and consider them to be good but not equal to Samson and New England Ropes products. Since they cost less, being of lower performance seems reasonable.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've never even seen a one inch rope before.

Saw some big ones offshore, though.

3/4 is plenty for most everything!

 

[NeTree]

Nothing wrong with overkill safety factors. It helps prevent "oopsies".

I like larger ropes because of I have bigger paws and they're more comfortable for me to handle.

 

[Lumberjack]

"Nothing wrong with overkill safety factors. It helps prevent "oopsies".

I like larger ropes because of I have bigger paws and they're more comfortable for me to handle."


Argreed, another thing that I thought of is we seem to have a lot of storms around here with trees that end up in some inoportune places and it would be good to have then.


Carl

 

[MasterBlaster]

Carl, do you have a 5/8 or 3/4 line already? If you do, and you buy that one incher, I gare-ron-tee you will find yourself NOT using it like you thought you would.

Just wait until you've spent the afternoon pulling that thing up a tree. And I won't even go into rolling that sucker up! Also, none of Sherrills blocks, from what I see, accept 1" rope.

I imagine I use a 1/2" Super Braid for 90% of my rigging.

But, live and learn!