When i once told someone about that , they started calling 1 dumb SOB. When I would take the (same rope I still have ) out of the Washer and it was still very wet , I would draw it over some clip up above my head and as I brought down I would just Little over it with a Propane torch just to burn off the fine hair. than hang it to air day. had that hank of HyVee for over 10 years. Granted I do not climb on it all the time but it is still my own My Line. I need that 150" rope it at home and Clean. H#$$ when I started the rope to have was Tree Pro 3 strand and they just started with that ArborFlex( Yuck). The HyVee has some bad feet on the far end I mean 145" down from the Eye Splice. I know it may not be safe ,but it keeps my trainees guessing. They get hands on it they ask why my rope is so much fatter than the new ones they get . I give them a line of Cr@& about it is an old rope and it should be fat it's older. just been through the washer so many times the core fibers and all rolled up it has swollen a bit