12 strand/3 strand

[Eagle1]

I just purchased a 5/8 3 strand bull rope. I think I made a mistake. It hockles, dosent wrap well, and has alot of it own friction.
Using a port-a wrap it almost dosent even let the limbs down. Maybe I will just use it for craning or something.
Any in-put guys?

 

[NeTree]

Three-strand :
Under load it torques. Other than good abrasion resistance, it sucks.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I bought my last three strand close to twenty years ago. Besides wearing well it has little use.

Tom

 

[OutOnaLimb]

3strand is way obsolete. I really cant think of any good uses for it except that its easy to splice and you can make a pretty decent lanyard out of it.

Kenn

 

[MasterBlaster]

I keep a length of my 20 year old esterlon in my trunk as a towline. I wonder what the SWL on that antique is?

 

[Eagle1]

Ya I figured it was not good in the applications I wanted to use it. It was cheap, I gave it a try.
I will use it to yank out shrubs.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Lanyards and friction hitches; short homemade stuff, experiments for 3 strand easy eyesplice i think.

i think it's flutes between strands dissipate some friction, handling better in some cases against braid for lanyards, or friction hitches.

i used a 3 strand tail for split tail for years, always outlasted the braided tails (1/2"); and Sherrill confirmed; i like the way it handled too. Tautline, Blake's and then crossing over to Distel/Schwab before going to cords

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

That is gonna vary like braided, the dynamic/elastic properties of 3strand nylon make it best for your truck pulling trick of loading force into the line, and getting that force plus truck pull to pull stuck truck, more so than polyester or the polyolefin/hamburger helper in the mix.

i think a 3 strand is easier/cheaper to make, but not a hardlay like we would want in dirty environment.

 

[Eagle1]

That is gonna vary like braided, the dynamic/elastic properties of 3strand nylon make it best for your truck pulling trick of loading force into the line, and getting that force plus truck pull to pull stuck truck

Hey Tree Spyder. I bet you cant say that 3 times fast

 

[a_lopa]

thats out of control kenny

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Oh, i thought you were talking about the easy & cheap hard lay in a dirty environment line.......

 

[NickfromWI]

I like 3 strand for a lanyard. Easy splice and great wear resistance. Sometimes can be tricky to find a friction hitch that works well with it.

I also use it to make small light-rigging slings. It's good for that stuff, too!

love
nick

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

i think braids grip the 3 strand well; or 3 strand on braid; i think there is something to the mixing of the designs.

The easy splicing makes it nice for all kinds of smaller stuff, custom experiments (FS etc.)

 

[Eagle1]

Nick, If send you some of my new 3 strand, how about a new sling??

 

[NickfromWI]

No prob, Eagle...pm me!

love
nick