Capstan winch rope

[Sjambok]

Dyneema is the stuff to use, it's down side is that its expensive but it's light and strong, 6mm 12 strand is 4500Kg breaking. Being light, when it does ping it doesn't fly back and cause damage and you can simply weave it back together again...

What have you been smoking? Simply weave it back together?

 

[rem284]

Dyneema

I have 220m of this. I keep it in a treehog bag. If I have shot deer that needs to be winched I walk out with the bag on my back. I then gralloch the deer and attach the rope using a strop and carabina. I then walk back to the winch with the bag on my back and the rope pays out as I do so. I run it through my hand as it does just to make sure it is tangle free. I used it today to extract four sika up a steep slope. It managed to do all four at once without any problems. A second person at the winch would have been good, that would have enabled my to hang on to a leg and get hauled up too.

 

[countrryboy]

I'd have a look on some forestry/arb suppliers.
They say u can use blue poy on those winches but need an extra wrap or 2 to get the right friction, 10mm + b;ue poly has a decent breaking strain considering ur only pulling something 200kgs max

Various types of 'Bull' rope or any of the lowering or rigging rope, all designed to be worked in winches and lowering trees down so minimal strech and fairly burn proof. (Try likes of Northern arb supplies, Clark forestry, honey bros, fr jones, buxtons, gusharts are a few of top of head)
Also tree climbing/arb rope is different to rock climbing rope so has no strech in it, so if u know any tree surgeons meant to be flung out every 5 yrs so they might have old stuff lying about but many repurpose it for other jobs.

200m of rope will take a fair bit of managing, the only way u'll hope to do it is have a drum/bag it fits in and just feed it in the drum. (u'll see rope bags on arb sites)
If it was me i'd be working 2/3 ropes and joining them, so easier if u get more shorter distances.
Various ways to join possibly simpiest 2 bowlines so will always undo, just mind to leave a big tail on the bottom rope so when untied has enough to wrap round the winch.

Another idea might be to make a 'winching cone' basically a strong traffic cone u put over the deers head so t should not catch objects/hanks the same and just slides past. Some folk are using them for logging so must work to some extent.

 

[LuckyEddie]

Hi folks

Now I’ve got a capstan winch .... reading the blurb says use double braided polyester .......

Guess o can’t get away with the good old blue polypropylene rope for this?

Recommendations where to get for decent price?
How much meters you guys using these do you recommend ? Thinking 200 meters

Paul

Hi Paul,

You could try the chandlers at Dundee harbour.
Don't know the name but they were base in the old port area, now I think they are adjacent to the railway line/roundabout on Broughty Ferry Rd at the east end of the newer harbour area.

Good luck with the search.
Ed

 

[Miki]

What have you been smoking? Simply weave it back together?

OK so it's a bit more than that to splice two lengths of SK7 together but it's not that difficult and there are plenty of UTube videos to learn from

 

[.25-06]

Some good posts here avoid the polyprop. Get a static rope. Shorter lengths linked would be an advantage too

 

[devonair]

I have 220m of this. I keep it in a treehog bag. If I have shot deer that needs to be winched I walk out with the bag on my back. I then gralloch the deer and attach the rope using a strop and carabina. I then walk back to the winch with the bag on my back and the rope pays out as I do so. I run it through my hand as it does just to make sure it is tangle free. I used it today to extract four sika up a steep slope. It managed to do all four at once without any problems. A second person at the winch would have been good, that would have enabled my to hang on to a leg and get hauled up too.

Sounds epic!