Magnum783
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Anyone use blaze rope. What is your opinons of it and it's handlablity. I was thinking of making my newest lanyard out of it. Just need some advice from some really smart people.
Jared
Jared
I like mine, but not nearly as much as PU does his. Social life in Indiana must be kinda slow these days...
Blaze holds a variety of hitches well. Milks a little, no big deal. Too dynamic for efficiency w some ascension methods. It wouldn't be my first choice for a lanyard cuz it is nickable, but it is my favorite climbing line right now.
I supose that is the question I should have asked in the begining.
Jared
(i can see it as a lanyard for REC climbing, but certainly not for work (wirecore only).
For one thing, using wirecore has its applications IMO. For big trees flipping is a lot easier, but working near electrical lines, you don't want a wirecore. Plus for pruning, I always use my 8' 1/2" lanyard (not wirecore).
jp
BLAZE as a lanyard? NO freaking way, unless you are NOT bringing a chainsaw, handsaw or polesaw into the tree. I touched my handsaw ever so gently (by mistake) against a 5/8" climbing line, poof, severed. Why in gods name would you want a line like Blaze that is even thinner?(btw, when loaded with climber wieght Blaze is only 8.5mm thick.....imeasured it with a micrometer.
(i can see it as a lanyard for REC climbing, but certainly not for work (wirecore only).
BLAZE as a lanyard? NO freaking way, unless you are NOT bringing a chainsaw, handsaw or polesaw into the tree. I touched my handsaw ever so gently (by mistake) against a 5/8" climbing line, poof, severed. Why in gods name would you want a line like Blaze that is even thinner?(btw, when loaded with climber wieght Blaze is only 8.5mm thick.....imeasured it with a micrometer.
(i can see it as a lanyard for REC climbing, but certainly not for work (wirecore only).
A common myth, nothing wrong with using a steelcore around powerlines, as long as you do not violate your limits of approach with it. If you don't know what limits of approach are then please don't respond, as you have no clue about utility work.
Clearance, you can have your wirecore flipline, your limits of approach and your utility work! hahaha
jp
hey it's ice in hawaii
jp
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