Good Old fashon Wire core climbing rope .

[tramp bushler]

I was thumbing thru a sale flyer .. Who can figure out which one !!! And I got to thinking about my need for a climbing rope . Modernly called a flip line .. .. Can the old Manilla 4 strand , wire rope core climbing rope still be bought , and if so where ???? Thank You ..

 

[hammerlogging]

I've only seen a 16 strand style rope that has a wire core. Sherrill has them.

 

[tomtrees58]

they dont sell it aney more tom trees

 

[brisawyer]

Wesspur has them in the 2009 catalog.

 

[2dogs]

Yep, Wespur has manilla wire core flip lines. However they are not climbing rope! Those are two completely different things.

 

[brisawyer]

Sorry the way I understood the first post he was calling a flipline a "climbing rope"

 

[tramp bushler]

Yep, Wespur has manilla wire core flip lines. However they are not climbing rope! Those are two completely different things.

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. In Southeast Alaska , tower loggin with a Madill , or a Berger ,or Washington ,or a Skagit and with wood trees and Shore Line A frames .
.The 4 strand Manilla wire rope core rope that has a sliced eye in one end , is woven thru the climbers belt ,thru all the D rings , goes around the tree and is tied in the eye ,usually on the right side near D rings , with a CATS PAW hitch .

.Thats a climbing rope !!!.
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. Thank you very much for bringing WesSpur to my attention!!!!!!!
. Look on the front cover of the book ( Never Chop Your Rope ) .
. Well just remember they been hangin riggin in trees way before Nylon and Polyester were invented ...... I bet Humptulips should have a pic of him climbing ....

 

[Humptulips]

Just saw a spool of it at Harbor Saw and Supply in Hoquiam the other day. (360)532-4600 You would be better to splice your own eye in it though if you get one through them. They don't seem to have a clue how to make a nice eye.
Sorry no pics. My climbing gear is here but no camera.

I have a bit different way of doing my rope. I splice a short piece of climbing rope right into the d-rings. An eye on each side spliced into the D-rings. You have to get the length just right but you leave a little extra slack and it never digs into your back. Then I have an eye on each side and tie a catspaw on each side. Makes it easy to adjust your rope to the size of the timber so you don't have so much end to work with if you are cutting around limbs. Also makes it quick to upend the rope to get even wear.

 

[2dogs]

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. In Southeast Alaska , tower loggin with a Madill , or a Berger ,or Washington ,or a Skagit and with wood trees and Shore Line A frames .
.The 4 strand Manilla wire rope core rope that has a sliced eye in one end , is woven thru the climbers belt ,thru all the D rings , goes around the tree and is tied in the eye ,usually on the right side near D rings , with a CATS PAW hitch .

.Thats a climbing rope !!!.
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. Thank you very much for bringing WesSpur to my attention!!!!!!!
. Look on the front cover of the book ( Never Chop Your Rope ) .
. Well just remember they been hangin riggin in trees way before Nylon and Polyester were invented ...... I bet Humptulips should have a pic of him climbing ....

Thanks for the explanation Tramp. The lingo you guys in foreign countries use can be confusing at times.

BTW like Hump said it is easy to lay a piece of 1/4" wire rope into a length of 3/4" manilla rope. You can probably find 1/4" stainless steel wire rope since you are near the ocean. Use a Flemmish eye and at the bitter end silver braze or solder to keep the wires tight. The wire rope will outlast the manilla rope so you can swap it into a new piece of rope every few years.

 

[tramp bushler]

Just saw a spool of it at Harbor Saw and Supply in Hoquiam the other day. (360)532-4600 You would be better to splice your own eye in it though if you get one through them. They don't seem to have a clue how to make a nice eye.
Sorry no pics. My climbing gear is here but no camera.

I have a bit different way of doing my rope. I splice a short piece of climbing rope right into the d-rings. An eye on each side spliced into the D-rings. You have to get the length just right but you leave a little extra slack and it never digs into your back. Then I have an eye on each side and tie a catspaw on each side. Makes it easy to adjust your rope to the size of the timber so you don't have so much end to work with if you are cutting around limbs. Also makes it quick to upend the rope to get even wear.

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Sometimes the replies don,t show up in my mail box .. Thanks for the # Hump .I can definatly see what you are saying about doing it that way and it not digging into your back !!! I will give them a call in a while ..

2 Dogs , I have noticed on here there is alot of difference between Calif. and PWN/ Alaska As far as terms and ways ....... What are fallers called in California ??? Other than alot of bad words :help::hmm3grin2orange: There are only 2 ropes on a yarder side in Alaska .. The climbing rope and the pass rope .. There is only 1 cable , The skyline cable ....There are lots of different lines and every one has it,s own name .......
. Thats one way to tell when a guy was new in Southeast .He wouldn,t know the words ........and his rain gear coat would prolly have a hood :deadhorse::deadhorse:

 

[2dogs]

Fallers are called fallers. We use the terms yarder engineer, choker setter, skyline or skyline cable, haulback, drop line, skid line, grapple cat or sometimes tracked skidder, chew, beer (Coors, Coors light or Bud), fag beer (any thing else unless it is free), tamarak (lodgepole pine), Cummins (Dodge pickup), dude (can mean anything, it's all in how you say it), chainsaw (Stihl), fish cops (dept of fish and game, very bad news), bug (any of a billion species de jour that can shut down logging or grazing), hot ( temp over 72o), cold (temp below 72o), water (comes in a little plastic bottle)
More to follow.

 

[RandyMac]

TB, what do you call a bull-prick in your woods?

 

[slowp]

TB, what do you call a bull-prick in your woods?

Maybe they use a motorized carriage or butt rigging? In a classroom or field trip situation, it is called The Stop. There are not many people using a Christie anymore.

Around here, a Tamarack is a Western Larch.

Bugs are the talkie tooter things that you use.

I need more coffee...

 

[tramp bushler]

TB, what do you call a bull-prick in your woods?

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.The bull prick is the hydraulic ram that begins the tower up of a 009 Madill 90 foot tube .

 

[tramp bushler]

Maybe they use a motorized carriage or butt rigging? In a classroom or field trip situation, it is called The Stop. There are not many people using a Christie anymore.

Around here, a Tamarack is a Western Larch.

Bugs are the talkie tooter things that you use.

I need more coffee...

.. Bugs are whistles are Talky Tooters

 

[tramp bushler]

Ya know what loggers call a wicker bill plastic hard hat in Southeast don,t ya ??

 

[hammerlogging]

I dont know but this cracks me up..... I was describing to my wife how its a little silly how our hookers, under the jammer, say "2 (pause) 2" on the chest radio, since 2 is go ahead on the talkie tooter (which she prefers to refer to as "talkie tootie"- I didn't happen to mention that we also say "1" or "4". Anyhow, she thought i meant that the hookers were saying "toot toot" to fully mimic the talkie tooter.

Toot toot say the grungy ass chokersetters. Toot toot.

 

[Humptulips]

Tramp,
You know the way to limber up one of them ropes? They can be stiffer then all get out if you try to use them as is.

 

[tramp bushler]

No , How ...This I gotta hear !!!!

 

[joesawer]

Tramp,
You know the way to limber up one of them ropes? They can be stiffer then all get out if you try to use them as is.

Lol the places I could go with this!