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Hi all,

I've started setting up some top ropes recently (i'm fairly new to outdoor climbing) and have noticed when other people set up top ropes they normally put a sleeve around the rope where it is likely to rub over the top edge of the crag. I normally jut stick a tarp or an old jumper underneath to protect my ropes. Does anyone know where i can purchase these sleeves or what they are actually called so i can have a search myself?

Many thanks

In reply to Jenksie: google 'rope protector'

In reply to Jenksie: They're caller rope protectors (imaginative I know) any good climbing shop should sell you one. They are just a piece of trap with Velcro up the edges to hold it in place and a bit of string to stop it sliding down the rope. to be honest I'd stick with your bit of tarp and jumper arrangement its cheaper.

In reply to Jenksie: Just use a bit of tarp or make one out of a coke bottle(with the bottom cut off) and a piece of string.

In reply to Jenksie: lyon equipment or hitch and hike or mark wright at sheffield

In reply to Jenksie:
Or you can get foam rubber tube wraparound things that go round water pipes to protect them in cold weather ... they're supposed to work well.

In reply to Jenksie:

http://www.needlesports.com/cgi-bin/sh000002.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2e...

In reply to Chris Sansum:

PS, if you buy one, make sure you tie it onto the rope with a prussik knot. I lost one of these a while back after pulling up the ab rope on a sea cliff climb and forgetting the rope protector was on there (and I hadn't secured it with a prussik). It must have just slid down the rope and fallen off the end.

In reply to Jenksie:

a off cut of carpet works equally well and will also double as an 'old skool' bouldering mat...

In reply to Jenksie: an old piece of leather, or get some wide plastic hose pipe and splice.

In reply to Jenksie:


One cheap option is old bicycle inner tubes cut into sections or about 50 cm (rinse away the strange chalk stuff inside). You have to slide them onto the rope, which is a minor pain.

In reply to Jenksie:


The relevence of this statement being ?

In answer to your original question, I presume that you mean to protect the static ropes or slings used to set up the anchor, not the climbing rope itself which should not be rubbing over any rock at all. In which case, bits of old carpet, karrimat, trousers etc are all fine. Avoid using dynamic (climbing) rope for setting the anchors if at all possible - the stretch makes them more vunerable to sawing as they are weighted and un weighted.