Hardest wearing srs rope

[Rob Thompson]

Hello, I'm looking for advice on what would be a tank of an srs rope. I've been running the courant squire v2, I've only had stationary for a year, and had to retire a rope already.

It seems to me, that the rope I've had does not seem as tough as the moving rope I've used in the past ? I am taking care, looking out for potential snag risks like fences ect.. I've been keeping my bar cover on whilst moving around the tree. I've been trying to avoid ascender slips.

Am I a rope butcher ? Am I unusually hard on rope ? I'm 95kg in my birthday suit, does that matter ?

Anyway, by the by. I'd appreciate if you all could suggest a hard ass tank rope for my next purchase. 

ATB, Rob.

 

Additional Note :

just purchased the ce rrp, but still going to use all equipment on the new rope.

Edited March 19, 2022 by Rob Thompson
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[Dbikeguy]

If you are climbing on it daily or say 3 times a week a year out of something that’s 11mm thick and responsible for holding you up 60ft off the floor isn’t bad!
Ascenders are tough on ropes, anything metal vs your hands on double rope… 95kg plus what min 15kg of kit, ppe etc is a reasonable weight and force on the ascenders too.
Do you use both ends of the rope?

[Mr. Squirrel]

What rope are you using? 
I have some kmiii max used near daily for about three years before I retired it as it got so stiff. Tough rope though. Others like fly and velocity are also pretty good, not as hard wearing but nice in the hand. 

[Mark Bolam]

I’ve just run some figures Rob.

95kg is too heavy to safely continue climbing on single rope according to my algorithms.

 

You have to sell me all your climbing kit immediately, for 10% of what you paid for it (It’s a safety factor thing).

 

Seriously mate, I think a lot of the newer ropes, whilst being outstanding, are a little bit ‘fussy’ when it comes to real world climbing brutality.

 

You must have tried good old Donaghys Cougar Blue? (The non-CE stuff)?

 

 

[Rob Thompson]

16 hours ago, Dbikeguy said:

If you are climbing on it daily or say 3 times a week a year out of something that’s 11mm thick and responsible for holding you up 60ft off the floor isn’t bad!
Ascenders are tough on ropes, anything metal vs your hands on double rope… 95kg plus what min 15kg of kit, ppe etc is a reasonable weight and force on the ascenders too.
Do you use both ends of the rope?

I climb daily. Mostly stationary now on hitches and rw. I have two 60m courant squire 11.7 ropes, red and yellow are for stationary. I flake the rope in the bag and use the one end, rotate the rope every week to fortnight. A 45m liros reef 11.7 (seems more like 10mm) for moving rope with hitchclimbers. A 13mm Marlow gecko with blakes for conifers.

It was a red courant squire v2 60m that I had to replace after less than a full year.

I've still got old moving ropes from 10+ years ago that look okay (now just used as tag lines...). 

[Rob Thompson]

14 hours ago, Mr. Squirrel said:

What rope are you using? 
I have some kmiii max used near daily for about three years before I retired it as it got so stiff. Tough rope though. Others like fly and velocity are also pretty good, not as hard wearing but nice in the hand. 

My hands are tough ! I don't want nice in the hands, I want tough rope ! 😆

[Rob Thompson]

48 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I’ve just run some figures Rob.

95kg is too heavy to safely continue climbing on single rope according to my algorithms.

 

You have to sell me all your climbing kit immediately, for 10% of what you paid for it (It’s a safety factor thing).

 

Seriously mate, I think a lot of the newer ropes, whilst being outstanding, are a little bit ‘fussy’ when it comes to real world climbing brutality.

 

You must have tried good old Donaghys Cougar Blue? (The non-CE 

I've only had the courant squire Mark. Only got in on these things this time last year, I was just hoping it'd last a bit better. I'm happy to hold my hands up to admit that the retired rope is the one I transitioned on.

Cougar blue a good recommendation then ? Will it play well with the rrp I've just pulled the trigger on ?

[Mark Bolam]

Best I’ve ever used mate.

Plays well with everything.

 

Big difference between the CE and non-CE though.

 

Nod at Treeworker was my source for full fat non-CE stuff.

[Rob Thompson]

7 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Best I’ve ever used mate.

Plays well with everything.

 

Big difference between the CE and non-CE though.

 

Nod at Treeworker was my source for full fat non-CE stuff.

Thanks very much, I'll have a look in to that rope 👍

[Rob Thompson]

7 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Best I’ve ever used mate.

Plays well with everything.

 

Big difference between the CE and non-CE though.

 

Nod at Treeworker was my source for full fat non-CE stuff.

Crikey !?! It ain't cheap ! I think that'll have to wait a month or two before I can stretch.