Blue Poly as Climbing Rope.

[Yournamehere]

Advise me.

Kids playing in the woods with adult supervision using a blue polypropylene rope to climb into the trees with loops on a friction hitch.

Loads of confidence; lots of fun.

Is it dangerous, should I have stopped and said something?

Is it no more dangerous than using a ladder and danger is outweighed by 'outside' activity?

They were not going 50' up with a chainsaw, just to the lower branches to play.

If prussic(?) on blue poly slips does it keep on slipping until you hit the ground or does it 're-grip' after an inch or so?

Not my kids.

Rope was probs 10-12mm.

I think thats all.

Yours

Anxious.

[kentjames]

Well i wouldnt put my kid on anything less than a sports rope or my main line. Amazing what some people do but then I did similar when i was a lad, like climbing up 30 - 40 ft trees with no rope

[Yournamehere]

Well i wouldnt put my kid on anything less than a sports rope or my main line. Amazing what some people do but then I did similar when i was a lad, like climbing up 30 - 40 ft trees with no rope

 

Well, climbing trees: fine. Climbing a blue poly by wrapping it round your leg and trapping it with one foot atop the other: fine. Just not sure how blue poly is with friction hitches.

[treesrus]

Well i wouldnt put my kid on anything less than a sports rope or my main line. Amazing what some people do but then I did similar when i was a lad, like climbing up 30 - 40 ft trees with no rope

 

totally agree - but then that's how kids learn what not do - i almost hung myself on poly rope when i was 12.

i have found poly rope useful but for friction hitches, seems too slick.

[woody paul]

If it was scouts or similar a risk assessment must of been carried out ??

[TGB]

They're kids having fun. Let them play. Or are we now going to have a thread, with at least one person prescribing exactly when, where & how a child can play. I'll start it off.

 

I think children should be seen and not heard. Unless they're on a farm among the sheep or cattle, in which case, they can be part of the herd.

 

I also think that children, who's parents can't afford the full set of prescribed climb equipment, should be sent up chimneys as cheap sweeps;

 

sent down the mine or into the mills at the age of six.

 

Bob a Job week should be brought back but extended to every Saturday. So waifs can be put to a good days' labour after the homework's been done.

 

Poly rope cannot be used by anyone for any reason, other than by a farmer or a member of their household. And only to secure a gate, when it can be proven in a court of law, that there was no old bale twine available at the time of securement.

 

Children can only play computer games when sat properly in a good posture, on a suitably sized chair. Design specifically for either office work or playing computer games. And that they take a complete break from gaming every 15mins.

 

There's far too high an instance of childhood obesity today. To combat this, it is to be made mandatory, that kids only be fed gruel on Saturday and sprouts on Sunday. With an added 100g portion of meat or fish every third Sunday.

 

Harris Tweed can make a general comeback, as can the British textile industry. When it is decreed, that all kids up to the age of eight, must by law, only wear rough linen cloth and kilts. Except when working in mines, quarries or mills. When appropriate 19th century PPE is to be worn.

Edited February 22, 2015 by TGB

[Robert_S]

They will be fine leave them. i use to climb on a poly prop on a three knot system to set the winch wire or cut off branches years ago then got the modern 3 strand nylon and a separate endless loop, the devils work...

[Yournamehere]

They're kid having fun. Let them play.

 

 

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OK thanks for that.

Tis outside my area of expertise you see, but was reasonbly sure that blue poly was frowned upon for pro use and had no idea whether it was just 'not encouraged' or whether it was because it was not safe.

Er with a prussic that is

[Yournamehere]

They will be fine leave them.

 

ok cheers:mind at rest now.