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So we have a family friend who is a retired tree guy, but he hasn’t been much help, lol. He has a rope come-along thing he uses for pulling trees. I bought a similar one for my own use and he’s been helpful in teaching me some of the ins and outs of cutting and such. He has a pile of ropes, almost all are twisted strand with a line of color woven through. I asked what kind of ropes they were and where to get it, but he said he didn’t know. Most of them came from the tree company he worked for. My rope come along came with a 20’ length of white twisted strand rope with a line of color woven through, but when I bought it I was told that it was recommended to use twisted strand rope in it because it gripped better, but nothing about what rope.
So I finally got around to stopping at a local rigging store today. The guy there said the rope with a color stripe running through is poly Dacron, but he said it has a pretty low strength and he would recommend Polypropylene or Nylon because he said the poly dacron only had an 800# working load and the other two are way higher. So I’d like to know what anyone experienced in this sort of thing would recommend.
Also I thought of getting some line for if I have to climb a tree and limb it or something. The family friend uses the same line for everything but I saw some stuff about how climbing ropes should be a different material?
Lastly, I want to get a throw weight. The family friend just puts a big knot in the end of a rope and gives it a heave. But I think a weight might make it easier to get to higher limbs. I have no idea what a proper weight is, I’ve seen them from 6oz to 20oz.
So I finally got around to stopping at a local rigging store today. The guy there said the rope with a color stripe running through is poly Dacron, but he said it has a pretty low strength and he would recommend Polypropylene or Nylon because he said the poly dacron only had an 800# working load and the other two are way higher. So I’d like to know what anyone experienced in this sort of thing would recommend.
Also I thought of getting some line for if I have to climb a tree and limb it or something. The family friend uses the same line for everything but I saw some stuff about how climbing ropes should be a different material?
Lastly, I want to get a throw weight. The family friend just puts a big knot in the end of a rope and gives it a heave. But I think a weight might make it easier to get to higher limbs. I have no idea what a proper weight is, I’ve seen them from 6oz to 20oz.