New England Safety Blue Hi-Vee 3-Strand Climbing Rope 12mm

[Rupe]

Three strand rope (not NE safety blue, no idea what make this was) and a GQ parachutes harness, with no leg straps just a bum strap and waist strap.

 

IIRC the rope was £35 and the harness I got second hand for £15. Add some karabiners that I had anyway and some prussik loops which I used to make out of more three strand and I was off!

 

Never actually worked using the three knot system on a daily basis like treequip and some of the other more senior members here but did use now and then if needed.

[High Scale]

I had the same harness Rupe, horrible!

 

When I did a trail day in Oz they gave me a steel core strop to use, I took it off and hung it in the tree, cumbersome thing:)

 

Three strand was hard to climb on but still makes a great natural crotch rigging rope.

Edited March 9, 2013 by High Scale

[Treespotter]

Three strand rope (not NE safety blue, no idea what make this was) and a GQ parachutes harness, with no leg straps just a bum strap and waist strap.

 

IIRC the rope was £35 and the harness I got second hand for £15. Add some karabiners that I had anyway and some prussik loops which I used to make out of more three strand and I was off!

 

Never actually worked using the three knot system on a daily basis like treequip and some of the other more senior members here but did use now and then if needed.

Hé that's my set hanging there Rupe.

Oh no, it isn't. my harness is orange with black (rubbed off leatherlook finish). Two steel stubai's and also two self spliced three strand prussic loops to complete the whole climbing gear set. Oh and of course the obligatory jar of Lacbalsam and the 020AV. No whoopies, loopies, slings, or pulleys.

 

What bothered me most that was the tangling of the rope right below the prussic in a long descend.

[Reddog]

Twisting was the problem I remember with three strand.

[Arran Turner]

Three strand rope (not NE safety blue, no idea what make this was) and a GQ parachutes harness, with no leg straps just a bum strap and waist strap.

 

IIRC the rope was £35 and the harness I got second hand for £15. Add some karabiners that I had anyway and some prussik loops which I used to make out of more three strand and I was off!

 

Never actually worked using the three knot system on a daily basis like treequip and some of the other more senior members here but did use now and then if needed.

 

Brilliant, nice and simple. How it should be. just curious what was the time period then 3 strand was used?

 

Would love to have a go on old kit like that low and slow ofcoursee

[Craig Johnson]

Hé that's my set hanging there Rupe.

Oh no, it isn't. my harness is orange with black (rubbed off leatherlook finish). Two steel stubai's and also two self spliced three strand prussic loops to complete the whole climbing gear set. Oh and of course the obligatory jar of Lacbalsam and the 020AV. No whoopies, loopies, slings, or pulleys.

 

What bothered me most that was the tangling of the rope right below the prussic in a long descend.

 

i think the orange/black was the willams GT mk2 as it had 'leather' padding, miss that step though and went from a mk1 to a troll 'manchester'

[Craig Johnson]

Three strand rope (not NE safety blue, no idea what make this was) and a GQ parachutes harness, with no leg straps just a bum strap and waist strap.

 

IIRC the rope was £35 and the harness I got second hand for £15. Add some karabiners that I had anyway and some prussik loops which I used to make out of more three strand and I was off!

 

Never actually worked using the three knot system on a daily basis like treequip and some of the other more senior members here but did use now and then if needed.

 

rope looks just about broke in enough to stop it twisting

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Three strand rope (not NE safety blue, no idea what make this was) and a GQ parachutes harness, with no leg straps just a bum strap and waist strap.

 

IIRC the rope was £35 and the harness I got second hand for £15. Add some karabiners that I had anyway and some prussik loops which I used to make out of more three strand and I was off!

 

Never actually worked using the three knot system on a daily basis like treequip and some of the other more senior members here but did use now and then if needed.

 

never thought I would see one of those again, memories!

 

mine was orange and yellow

[Treespotter]

Brilliant, nice and simple. How it should be. just curious what was the time period then 3 strand was used?

 

Would love to have a go on old kit like that low and slow ofcoursee

 

Three strand probably was used from the stone age until somewhere around the 1990. At our company we skipped the octoply because it was too hard on your elbows when pushing the prussic up the rope. Went straight from the three strand to the NE highVee blue.

 

BTW, the orange black harness was a Barrow Hepburn.

Edited March 10, 2013 by Treespotter

[Rupe]

Yes, I there was some rope called multiplat in the 90's but I could never get on with it, so I stuck with the three strand until about 97 I would think, then went to NE hi vee orange which is still one of the toughest, longest lasting ropes available today.