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Timely .There is an auction today that listed a brand new 600 foot roll of 3/4" nylon .I told Tom about it . Mid week afternoon auction right after Christmas he might do allright .If he gets it I'd imagine he'd make 2 300 footers .I'll probabley put eye splices in it because I don't think he...

Well some perhaps more than others .

They used to call 4 strand "truck " rope .If I'm not mistaken it would run through sheeves and pulleys without the tendency to unlay or distort like 3 strand under tension . I had mentioned before that my ex wife was involved in a program at the US Coast Guard Academy where they conducted the...

Manilla hasn't been used much for anything much except farmers for at least 30 years . During the first or second world war they planted hemp by the hundreds of acres in central Ohio for raw material for Navy ships mooring lines .In spite of attempts to rid the country side of this "weed " it...

Locally a few use braided for climbing lines etc because of less bounce .Bull ropes and what not it's pretty much all 3 strand nylon . The biz I've mainly used big line for most of my working life has been pulling ropes for big armored cable and up to say 20 years ago it was all three stand...

That's all they had for years and being somewhat old school -----