Dynamic or Static - how can I tell???
I re3cently purchased a 100m, 11mm rope from a guy who used it for his past roped access career (since retired due to bad fall). Anyway, how can I tell for sure if it is a static rope or a dynamic rope???
It has a little elasticity when you pinch about an inch and push/pull the rope together/apart but it feels more solid than my 50m dynamic rope....
I've never seen a static rope that wasn't white with black or black and red flecks, but that's no guarantee there's no coloured ones.
The other thing you could check is the stickers on the end - if it's got '1' or '1/2' then it's almost certainly a dynamic climbing rope.
Just tie a 20 ft length from a tree or a climbing wall (or well protected rock) and hang on it. Dynamic ropes stretch a lot, about 5% under body weight. If it is and stil has "life" in it it sill feel bouncy, if not use it for abseiling.
It is white with black specks, does that mean it is DEFINATELY static, if so, wanna buy it?
Do you know the full history of this rope ? I'd say buying ANY rope second hand is pretty dumb.
yeah, I know the history, I know the guy well enough that sold it me. Roped acces was his game, now into curtain walling.... no longer required rope or a load of other gear that I got too.
Wanna buy it??
No ta, Dave - we've got plenty of caving rope - and I shat myself when I nearly abbed off the end of one at the top of Rowten, so I'm not really going much now anyway!
You should learn stopper knots for the end of the rope to prevent abbing off the ends of them!!
Would normally have had one, david, but we thought we had about 40' of spare rope on the pitch...but we didn't.
I've certainly never done SRT since without a large, fuck-off knot in the end though!
does the guy u bought it off not knowe what kinda rope it is? if he used it for his job, u might expect that he knows what it is. hmm?
No, he was a little brain dead, anyway, I have a pretty good idea now that it is definately static. I can tell by the colour right enough - predominantly white with black and/or red specks = static rope - bugger!
Anyone have use for a 100m, 11mm abseil rope then?? It's going very cheap and its hardly ever been used..
If it was bought for rope access its more likely to be static.
If it is dynamic rope and was used regularly for rope access (even without falls) a lot of the stretch will have been pulled out of it too.
Carol
What are you trying to imply FH?
Ive mailed you about it David - Iam interested in the rope
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