rope? ever cut it?

[mpatch]

bad enough that the rope was junk?

 

[Grace Tree]

I like to think of it as making lanyard material. I have enough to keep me in lanyards until about 2021.
Phil

 

[PinnaclePete]

Not while I was hangin from it, that would be bad stooopid!

 

[ckliff]

First Sherrill order I ever made included an eye-spliced climbing rope and a silky handsaw. Can you see where this is heading? Yep, there is a good reason you should use your lanyard even when just handsawing. That thirty dollar eye-splice didn't even last fifteen feet up its first tree.

 

[ozzy42]

I voted never.
If it's your climbline,that would be like asking if you ever cut your neck.


Had a hell of a scare about 25 years ago.I was rigging a heavy pine limb down using 1/2 3 strand ,natural crotching,and the rigging line crossed my climbline.Cut it dam near half way thru.
SCARY lesson learned that day. Never let my lines cross when rigging and Never used 3strand in a tree again.

 

[flushcut]

I have never cut through one but nicked a few times. I had a dip :censored: groundie that cut through one he is still dragging brush to this day, no saw for that idiot.

 

[mic687]

I voted cut but I have never cut clean through my climbing line. I think most everybody had nicked their line at some time or another. I did once completely sever a rigging line but the piece held until I could get a new line on it(cold and rainy out and in a hurry) so I slowed down.

 

[tomtrees58]

i witch over 100' of my climbing line going thru my drum chipper i was on the other end of it nice ground man wen it pulled tight it cut clean thank god

 

[flushcut]

i witch over 100' of my climbing line going thru my drum chipper i was on the other end of it nice ground man wen it pulled tight it cut clean thank god

Scary!

 

[TreeAce]

Work ropes? ...oh ya. Climbing line?..not so much. Although I did nick one up so bad I decided to cut it. Did that with a pole saw on a day I was getn frusterated. I have cut a few work ropes just from being lazy or in a hurry and not making a proper under cut. Wait..I did cut a climbing line with a chainsaw once , but I cut it below my climbing hitch. I was cutting on back side of tree and my climbing line was snagged on a stub or sucker or somethin. I knew right away. Thx groundies. Good lookn out. Or maybe thats just what I get for cutting in a spot where I couldn't see 100% of what I was doing?!?!

 

[beowulf343]

I had to vote no, i've never cut or nicked my climbing line, thankfully. I've nicked two lanyards and a couple rigging ropes though.

I actually learned how important saw control in a tree is very early in my career. Was a first year climber, cocky as hell. Was on the ground running a rope for a veteran climber and was watching him when he cut himself out of the tree. Fifteen years later and i still can't believe how quick it happened, and it's still high on the list of scariest things i've seen (or heard for that matter.) He landed really bad on a wood pile like six feet from where i was standing. I still vividly remember the horror as i just stared at him for a second, draped over the woodpile, looked like his back was broken, blood running out of his mouth. Almost went and found another line of work that afternoon, and a lot of the cocky disappeared. That image of him still pops in my head when i'm going to be cutting close to my climbing lines and i take the half second to check they're clear before squeezing the throttle.

The climber ended up making it, although he never climbed again, and spent the next couple years working the ground before he retired.

 

[ozzy42]

i witch over 100' of my climbing line going thru my drum chipper i was on the other end of it nice ground man wen it pulled tight it cut clean thank god

Shart?

 

[Nailsbeats]

I have never cut myself out of a tree or all the way through any of my lines. But, I've nicked a few and seen others hammer through them obliviously.

 

[VA-Sawyer]

Nicked my climbline with my Silky. I use it for my 'pine' rope now.
Had a contracted climber cut a 5/8 200 footer Stable Braid into 2 100' chunks, didn't wait for us to clear the pull rope before he started bucking up the tree. That was the largest pine I have seen dropped in one piece. I couldn't even enjoy the moment of the nice drop. Oh Well, it was about due for retirement so didn't take it out of his pay.
Rick

Cutting rope with a chainsaw is one of those things where you say, "There are those that have, and those that will..."

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Never cut a climbing rope but I did spike one bad enough, dead center, to the point that I had to cut from that section out, when I finished getting the tree down.

 

[TreeClimber57]

I voted never.
If it's your climbline,that would be like asking if you ever cut your neck.

Well, it did not specify climbline or lanyard anywhere.. so I am assuming it might mean any rope used anywhere.

Have never cut climbline.. never cut lanyard.. but have cut other lines on ground or had other crew members cut some of my lines on gound before.

 

[mpatch]

Well, it did not specify climbline or lanyard anywhere.. so I am assuming it might mean any rope used anywhere.

Have never cut climbline.. never cut lanyard.. but have cut other lines on ground or had other crew members cut some of my lines on gound before.

Correct I never said what rope or cut through. I have never cut through a climbing line but have nicked it more than once bad enough that the rope either became a small tree rope, lanyard material, tag line, etc. I cut almost all the way through my flipline, had a bull rope get eaten by my chipper, nicked a few rigging lines. Most of the time it's the handsaw/polesaw that gets the climbing lines.

 

[squad143]

Have never cut climbline.. never cut lanyard.. but have cut other lines on ground or had other crew members cut some of my lines on gound before.

:agree2: X2 Had my spurs go through quite a few as well.

 

[tree md]

Never cut through my climb line but they do get nicked from time to time. I buy high dollar climbing line these days so I am very careful with it. Had to retire my last PI line because I nicked it severely after I got two throw bags stuck and had to use a pole saw to set my line for a large prune job. Didn't have a scabbard on my old polesaw and it did a number on my line.

I have cut clean through a rigging line twice. First time was on a tree that was totally encompassed by a deck. I got lucky and did no damage as the piece I was trying to lower was a light limb. The second time was on a large chunk that I had tip tied. My groundy did not let it run and it swung back into me. I threw up my hands in defense, still had my saw in my hand and must have squeezed the throttle trigger in panic. I cut the bull line and took out a 6 or 8 foot section of privacy fence. I survived... Replaced pickets and repaired it myself the next day and it was no worse for wear.

 

[treeclimber101]

Oh yea , I cut through a rope lanyard , and a rope , the rope was below the bridge so as long as I didn't head down I was cool , kinda sucked though I was trimming without spikes way up , so I had to endure the guys throwing the throw ball at me for about 15 minutes til I could pull the rope up