ROPE manship..on ROPES..

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Gone_rouge > Thanx brother!

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Rope Care Commandments

The following "Rope Care Commandments" have been proposed by D.F. Blair (reference at bottom of page). The pithy comments that follow the commandments are my own.
I. Thou shalt honor thy rope as thou would thy life.
II. Thou shalt keep thy rope away from all harmful spirits.
• I'm no chemist... so I have to assume that fluids in your garage, dripping from your vehicle, oozing our from a tree (i.e. pine pitch) will all weaken and misshapen the rope.
III. Thou shalt not consort with ropes that are unclean, lest thou suffer a fall from grace.
• Dirt (especially sand particles) can eat away at your rope fibers every time the rope is in use. Please consider tying your rope into a daisy chain and washing it in one of those large front loading washing machines at your local Laundromat... yes, people will stare. There's more to cleaning your ropes that I'll cover in class.
IV. Thou shalt elevate thy rope above the downtrodden.
• Exercise extreme care when storing your rope. Coiling the rope and hanging it in your truck or in the shop is good - keeping your rope in a rope tarp or rope bag is even better. Rope left on the ground or floor will pick up many small particles that will make your rope dirty (see third commandment). Rope on the ground is much more likely to be walked-on, driven-on, and spilled-coffee-on. This policy also applies to the work site. If you leave your rope laying out willy-nilly all over the place then you deserve it when your partner drives the truck over your climbing line.
V. Thou shalt know the paths that thy rope has traveled.
• You can assume your rope is safe when it arrives from the vendor. As soon as the rope comes off the coil you had better treat it like your offspring and keep up with it at all times. Mark down the date you purchased your primary climbing line on your calendar... when the one year anniversary rolls around, retire your rope to the lowering-line ranks and buy yourself a new rope - you're worth it!
VI. Thou shalt be neither a borrower nor a lender of climbing line.
• Most of my motorcyclist "brothers" will lend me money, share their beer, and even step into a scrap to help me out... but will they let me sit on their bike? Hell no. Don't even ask to borrow an arborist's rope.
VII. Thou shalt not treat thy climbing line as a beast of burden.
• A climbing line is not a lowering line... repeat after me... A climbing line is not a lowering line.
• Shock loads occur when there is a sudden change in tension from a low load to a high load. Today's climbing lines are made up of synthetic fibers that "remember" every shock load. The cumulative effect of being overloaded weakens the rope and makes it prone to failure.
VIII. Thou shalt keepeth thy rope cool.
• We're not working with natural fiber rope anymore. The strength of synthetic rope is compromised by heat. Have you ever "smoked" out of a tree before and realized that you glazed the rope in and around your climbing knot? Keep your rope out of full sun - the UV radiation will break the little fibers that make up each strand. You'll recognize UV damage by discoloration and the presence of splinters and slivers on the surface of the rope.
IX Thou shalt not associate with the coarse and abrasive.
• That's hard to do in this industry It takes time, but installing a friction (cambium) saver in a tree that you climb repeatedly will help prolong the life of the rope and the branches originating from that crotch.
X. If thy rope offends thee, thou shalt cut it with a knife and cast it into the deepest pit.
• If you find a damaged area in your rope - remove that damaged area. Don't simply move it to the lowering-line collection... you'll forget about the damage and pay for it with property damage! Cut up the rope into 15 foot sections and donate it to your local community college arboriculture program.
• When should you "retire" your rope? Answer - before it breaks!

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up rope!..

[fratbaxxx]

bowline shtbend draw hahah khinumda

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mga ropersssss post nmo hahaha

[onard04]

hello can i ask where to buy paracord bracelet?

[DAW-188]

well this is interesting... but how bout mga lashings kana mag sumpay sa perpendicular na mga kahoy and such... i know a little bout ropemanship like splicing, eye-splice, buck splice... kana gani mag sumpay ug duha ka pisi... kana pud pisi sa barko nga not ur ordinary rope gi splice na cya para the harder u pull the tighter it gets.....

[stuart]

@ zubanu > after reviewing ur post, i realized WHAT u exactly meant..on ur end as an outdoor practitioner, pwede kaayo ka maka-organize ug events like this > ROPEMANSHIP..pwede sad nga ang concept sa workshop is SHARING your thoughts to people who are just simply INTERESTED..ayaw na paghisgot ug mga FEES kay that's one reason makacreat ug conflict in the end..though if the future events might need monetary shares, pwede sad as long as we can have it JUSTIFIED on our END..

Agree q ni TS...FEES just create a spark anyway for me i just master the four basic rope tying for my needs in outdoor activity

1. Figure Eight knot
2. Higway man's knot
3. Bowline knot
4. Prusik knot

will ofcourse i know some knot tying but i forgot sa mga names hehehe but the four that i've listed on the top are very usefull in everday life where ever you are sa akong opinion na hah i dont know others unsa ilang ginagamit

[shio.cortes]

Thanx for the share everyone..Indeed ROPEMANSHIP is an ART itself..A simple yet complex skill that needs time and practice to achieve PERFECTION and EFFICIENT usage..Everyone is INVITED to share!..MORE POWER!

[DAW-188]

nice ni.... up rope....