rope for portable winch

[Stephen Blair]

 

This kinks a bit, I've only used it once straight off the reel, so I'd expect it to soften with use.

[Tattie]

Hi There,

A bit late with my reply, I have a simpson portable capstan winch and use 14mm static braided polyester and it works a treat.

 

Cheers

 

A.M.

[John Shutler]

12mm marlow rigging line is what we use, cheap and fairly durable

[Dean O]

Just noticed that this thread had resurfaced

for those looking into it or had contributed to it, thanks.....

with what some people had recommended and from the bit of research I did I actually didn't purchase the perfect rope at all.

 

we use double estleron for our rigging applications but the outer core isn't great against friction so I avoided it.

also anything with polypropylene is to be avoided.

I wanted to avoid anything with a tendency to stretch for fear of any recoil.

 

The job I used it for was hauling small clumps of cut rhody up a cliff (no target bellow), with nowhere to place an elevated redirect to keep the rope out of the mud/shale.

 

so at the time it worked out best to purchase small lengths of off cuts like: Braid on Braid Polyester Marine Rope 12m x 12mm Reel End Offcut Fender Mooring | eBay

 

and just keep replacing

 

they are relatively local so I could pop along as and when needed

 

I'm not sure if 'braid on braid' is what I know as double braid? - if anyone can clear that up for me?

 

but it seemed to work well for the application we used it for (relatively light)