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Sometimes they need a clean - took down a couple of Scots pine in a garden where the lady kept chickens around the base, it rained and that turned the ground into clay and chicken shit soup.

 

I bought some Beal rope cleaner and brush, soaked it in the bath at 30C per instructions. Made it better but never really got rid of the smell from the rope. As I remember the rope manufacturer said not to put in washing machine, that was a Marlow rope.

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Those spiral rope brushes work great when clamped in a vice with the bucket underneath, leaving both hands free to pull it through.

 

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I hardly ever clean my ropes, and should do it more often, as the literature I've seen from manufacturers (during training courses with mountain rescue) make it clear that clean, dry ropes are significantly stronger than wet ropes with ingrained dirt particles, with breaking point much easier to reach. Even then, though, that breaking point should still be well outside your safe working load, but all it doesn't take much for things to snowball into a catastrophe. 

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