CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Interesting indeed.
Best rope and best price for rigging lines.
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emr
Cheesehead Treehouser
I think the rope is initially stiffer than Stable Braid but after use I cant tell the difference. Maybe the diameter of the Husky is larger which would account for the added weight. As far as chafe resistance and strength couldn't there be a difference in the way the sheaths are made and a difference in the way the core is made? Don't dbl braids share the load between the core and sheath? If that was the case, each manufacturer could tweek the sheath as well as the core to get very different characteristics.
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oscar4883
Guest
I like TrueBlue or elcheapo Arborplex for for natural crotch rigging. I never put to much thought into the Husky lines but the one I have has been great. Maybe I am not very particular but I can't tell much if any, difference between it and SB. Takes everything I have thrown at it.
chris_girard
Treehouser
Very interesting info guys.
ABS is good to know and all, but I'm more concerned with how a line performs and to me Stable Braid and Yale's Double Esterlon are my favs.
ABS is good to know and all, but I'm more concerned with how a line performs and to me Stable Braid and Yale's Double Esterlon are my favs.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Peak impact force would be an interesting thing to know as well. This is a spec on rock climbing ropes, tested with a standard situation.
NickfromWI
King of Splices
How is Peak Impact Force different than breaking strength?
NickfromWI
King of Splices
If the husky is larger diameter, then we'd have to call it 11/16 or 3/4, not 5/8.
Yes, in a typical polyester/polyester double braid, the strength is just about perfectly split 50/50 between cover and core. If they threw off that balance TOO much, All Gear would have to come up with some other splice for it that accounted for that.
bonner1040
Nick from Ohio
sotc
Dormant hero!!
$60 cheaper than sherrill's
Sounds like a good price, Justin. 150' is the length I normally buy/use.
GrappleYarder
TreeHouser
For the Husky bull rope the quoted weight at TreeStuff is 21lb for 150 ft, which works out to the same weight (14lb/100') as the stable braid. The rope is actually manufactured here in Canada not far from where I am. Told them how I was learning to splice and they sold me rope ends at $1/lb...
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Not a bad price for that hank at all Squish. The last 9/16ths SB I bought was 199.00 for 200 foot. WesSpur I believe.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Welcome to the TreeHouse, GY!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Same here Scott. I only take the 5/8ths off the truck for some real abuse
1/2 is my favorite and I always have at least 200 feet on hand.
1/2 is my favorite and I always have at least 200 feet on hand.
I only have one 200' piece of rope on the truck, and I've only used it once, when I had to rig a skyline/speedline on a job. I very seldom need anything over 150'. I'm currently using a remnant I got from Wesspur a couple of years ago that is about 135' long.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I had a 200 foot hank in this little guy. Tickled me when we were lowering one side and then speed lining the other with the same hank of rope. I just tossed the tail of the rope out over the hedge and to the field we had to land stuff in and never pulled any of the other rigging until later when we started moving down the tree. I just set a porty to lock it up in the tree and Rob used a Z rig to tension the line. We finished the zip lining, I hauled the tail back and started rigging more wood out over the patio. 
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
I only have a 200' piece of half inch anymore and I save that for zip lines at a kids camp I do in the summers. Down to my last 200' of 5/8 but i think after I recover from another transmission I am going back to 1/2", it is easier to fine tune how many wraps you need to really control a piece and at 10k pounds I really rarely need any more than that
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
It runs sooooo nicely ....
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Ropes RAWK!!! 
sotc
Dormant hero!!
I'm going to half because all we used to use was old climbing line and I never broke one of those rigging so I feel confident going to 1/2" stable braid
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I was hillbilly yarding some oak out of a creek bed with the pick up for a customer not too long ago with an old hank of 1/2 SB we had retired. AMAZING the abuse it will take 5 - 800# oak logs jumping over boulders and stumps
5 - 800# oak logs jumping over boulders and stumps 
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
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Yup. I used a old 5/8th to pull a cottonwood over with a big-azz wheel loader. The tree was to rotted to even cut and kind of favored the lay. It did some damage to the rope, visible damage as well as whatever else but the rope held and pulled the tree over. The city guy running the loader was wigged out. Lol.
It was a calculated risk, that tree was brutal. I've seen some hollowed out cottonwoods before but this one was so far gone you could've easily crawled inside of it while it was still standing, one of those ones you look at and can't believe it's standing let alone withstood the last storm and countless before that. Trees never cease to amaze me.
It was a calculated risk, that tree was brutal. I've seen some hollowed out cottonwoods before but this one was so far gone you could've easily crawled inside of it while it was still standing, one of those ones you look at and can't believe it's standing let alone withstood the last storm and countless before that. Trees never cease to amaze me.
