Tricks or tips for pine resin on your rope?

[TommyW]

Anyone got any good ways of getting sap / resin out of ropes?

Seems with modern fancy hitches & pulleys etc it affects them much worse than I remember before - could barely move my HC with just a little residue on the hitch cord & rope....

[MOG]

butter on rope and then wash it out, hear some guys taking little spray bottle of olive oil up and spray it on massive pine removals and ficus etc

[TommyW]

Any reason why butter rather than something veg based like sunflower oil or veg based lard / fat? Saw another thread suggesting mayonaisse which would imply its the fat doing the job. Sunflower oil would be less smelly than butter / mayo.

Anyone have a LOLER issue with butter etc on rope?

Cheers

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just washed mine in the sink with washing up liquid and bold washing powder, came out easy peasy

[colemanjessenz]

vege oil mate , the cone pickers getting the dougie cones cover themselves in it.

[nifty]

i used degreesar stuff for the dishwasher before when i wwas doing alot of conifer work,just a tiny bit in the washing machine with the ropes daisy chained up,worked a charm, i've bought a new rope since but its still the finest:)

[Swampster]

Washing machine, low temp. wash (30°), non-bio powder or liquid and fabric conditioner. Comes out like new!

[Arb Rhino]

http://www.frjonesandson.co.uk/products-page/consumables/oils-lubricants/stihl-resin-solvent/ IMO buy some of this it's great for bars and silkys as well, but if you spray your rope with it then leave it an hour or so and put it in the washer on a 30 degree rinse and spin it will come out like brand new I do mine once every 3 months (give or take) and it works a treat

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Aerial Liquitabs.

 

And BOOM!

[TommyW]

Cheers guys

Got it pretty good - gave it a good dunking in some hot ish water with plenty of veg oil. Then a wash with hot water & wash up liquid, then a good blast with the hose on jet. Came out nicely apart from a small section which had been saturated when left in the tree overnight, better than it was but still hard in the core...