Have you ever used ropes for Ddrt arborist climbing that were designed for something else?
(I've used a 10 meter length of mammut prostatic 11mm regular old static nylon kernmantle and it seems to be holding up quite nicely.)

My first tree climbing line was purchased at a hardware store at the price of about 70 cents/ft.

I climbed about ten trees with it before I decided I should see if someone made rope especially for this purpose!



love
nick

My first climbs were in '79, following the release of the Eagles' "Hotel California" and just before Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" (We don't need no education. We don't need no thoughts control...) Marion and Herb handed me a three strand rope to start climbing. We never discussed specifications or composition. In fact we used a friction hitch never reported in literature. I climbed on various ropes of unknown composition. The free climb technique seemed to significantly reduce rope wear independent of the rope composition. Nowadays I'm only in places that play Musica do Popular Brasil, and I'm looking at rope specifications like a hawk. I'm glad to be here.

Regards,
JimK:cool:

My rope of choice for SRT is New England KM III, 7/16".

For DdRT New England Fly is the best!

Tom

i climb with beal top gun 10.5mm. want to switch to the fly though when i get some spare cash
love my top gun though

I have a 25' lenght of BWII static KM that I use for a lanyard (static lanyard--big no no) and for a double ended rig when ladder climbing. When using I keep all slack out of the loop, but I really need to get rid of this method, I'd hate to take any fall on that line with no significant stretch.

Climb Safe! (Yeah, Yeah, I need to practice what I preach)

Icabod