eye.heart.trees
arborjunky
TL;DR- Any recommendations for the cheapest reputable rope-retailers? I can't get myself to order name-brand rope from some ebay seller, but am guessing my Bartlett's order of blue moon wasn't the shrewdest approach, at any rate I want another climb line (love BM but kinda want to try Adrenaline, dunno maybe just get another hank of BM), a spool of at least 50' for making prusiks(I've got an eye&eye split tail that I haven't used, have been loving a 2-prusik system for now but also use prusiks on my lanyards & false crotches for adjustability), and - if it's not appropriate to use BM as a rigging-line, then a hank of the cheapest light-rigging rope maybe 1/2" line max am not going to need 3/4" anytime soon!
[may be worth mentioning that I'm very keen to be home-splicing as soon as possible so I want my prusik rope and climbing-rope, if not all my ropes, to be hand-spliceable, pretty sure adrenaline is and know BM is!]
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I'm new and think I erred in my initial order, I got 120' blue moon (love the rope itself!) but thinking:
1 - that I'm no longer upset they were out-of-stock on the BM-with-sewn-eye, because I'm seeing VERY little pressure on my basal anchor after the friction of the rope around the tree's base, it's hardly cinching-down the knot I've got around my 1/2" metal-thimble (to eliminate rope-on-rope friction), and
2 - that I should've gotten 200' so I could cut-off more sections w/o comprising rope-length (have already taken almost 20' off for (2) false crotches and a 'flipline'/lanyard(prusik-based adjustability))
So I'm now thinking that instead of waiting til the Blue Moon has gotten a bit worn, and then making it my rigging-rope, that I'd be better-off getting either a new line *right now* for climbing and making the BM my rigging line, OR get a dedicated rigging line, a ~120-150' hank of Adrenaline that won't get a snippet removed from it, and have the BM as my 'extra' rope for lanyards/false crotches and, if/when I've got a rigging line that's ~13mm+, I can then use the 11.7mm BM as prusiks on the rigging-line for all types of versatility!
Some of my biggest thoughts are whether or not it's acceptable/norm to use older climb-lines as rigging lines, I mean my BM has 2.5% stretch and around 6500lbs MBS, it seems totally suitable for lighter rigging (I should be clear I'm only talking light rigging, am not even setting these things up yet am just wanting to practice & learn thankfully I've got a massive Oak to play with in my yard!) and I'm often seeing what very-much looks like climb-line being used for rigging so think it's OK but wanted to run it by others!
Thanks for any advice
[may be worth mentioning that I'm very keen to be home-splicing as soon as possible so I want my prusik rope and climbing-rope, if not all my ropes, to be hand-spliceable, pretty sure adrenaline is and know BM is!]
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I'm new and think I erred in my initial order, I got 120' blue moon (love the rope itself!) but thinking:
1 - that I'm no longer upset they were out-of-stock on the BM-with-sewn-eye, because I'm seeing VERY little pressure on my basal anchor after the friction of the rope around the tree's base, it's hardly cinching-down the knot I've got around my 1/2" metal-thimble (to eliminate rope-on-rope friction), and
2 - that I should've gotten 200' so I could cut-off more sections w/o comprising rope-length (have already taken almost 20' off for (2) false crotches and a 'flipline'/lanyard(prusik-based adjustability))
So I'm now thinking that instead of waiting til the Blue Moon has gotten a bit worn, and then making it my rigging-rope, that I'd be better-off getting either a new line *right now* for climbing and making the BM my rigging line, OR get a dedicated rigging line, a ~120-150' hank of Adrenaline that won't get a snippet removed from it, and have the BM as my 'extra' rope for lanyards/false crotches and, if/when I've got a rigging line that's ~13mm+, I can then use the 11.7mm BM as prusiks on the rigging-line for all types of versatility!
Some of my biggest thoughts are whether or not it's acceptable/norm to use older climb-lines as rigging lines, I mean my BM has 2.5% stretch and around 6500lbs MBS, it seems totally suitable for lighter rigging (I should be clear I'm only talking light rigging, am not even setting these things up yet am just wanting to practice & learn thankfully I've got a massive Oak to play with in my yard!) and I'm often seeing what very-much looks like climb-line being used for rigging so think it's OK but wanted to run it by others!
Thanks for any advice