Equirial 10mm Type A rope
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Mike Hopley
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We used some last summer in Spain. It's good stuff, as far as I could tell. Handles well, and unlike the cheap Mammut ropes it doesn't seem to get too stiff.
There's an option that bonds the core to the sheath, which provides additional safety when the sheath is damaged -- but this is more expensive.
There's an option that bonds the core to the sheath, which provides additional safety when the sheath is damaged -- but this is more expensive.
Mike Hopley
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paul said:
It didn't seem to, although I didn't get any experience with that particular rope beyond preparing it for use. I'm not sure how much a sheath really slides around when you're handling a rope anyway.
I think the idea was to reserve 100 m of this special 10 mm for rescue rigging (which would cover most of the pitch lengths).Another option if you want a more cut-resistant rope is something very static, like Spel. Gold (more static = less sawing = less abrasion). But that's even more expensive.
(Or of course you can get a thicker, heavier, bulkier rope.)
jarvist
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simonsays said:
I've been using it for a few years - the NPC bought some as club rope very early on(2008?), and ICCC followed suit soon after (June 09).
For a rope in use in Yorkshire it's great. Even the oldest stuff has remained very nice to handle - easy to pack densely in bags and lovely to tie knots (and untie) with.
Mammut by comparison seems a little bit tougher (certainly we've been tending to use this more on expedition as it wears well), but very quickly turns as stiff as anything.
Certainly miles better than Lanex, which was our previous cheap source of rope!
SpeleoTrog
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All of SWCC's rope is now Equirial 10mm. We started intoducing it in 2011 and I've not heard any complaints about it.
I certainly like it - as Jarvist said, we got some fairly early on and it's lasted pretty well.
It seems to be fairly flexible without being too loose/soft.
Sizing did seem a little odd.
IIRC, the 10mm was nominally ~10.4 and the 10.5 was 10.7, or something like that, and they certainly seem fairly hard to distinguish without looking at the markings (and remembering which particular sequence of black and green threads means which size).
We recently bought some of the core/sheath-bonded 10mm, and I think that's supposed to be basically a straight 10mm - it certainly looks/feels more like an 'Edelrid standard' 10.
That's currently unused, awaiting decisions on how to slice it up, so no idea how it compares in use.
It seems to be fairly flexible without being too loose/soft.
Sizing did seem a little odd.
IIRC, the 10mm was nominally ~10.4 and the 10.5 was 10.7, or something like that, and they certainly seem fairly hard to distinguish without looking at the markings (and remembering which particular sequence of black and green threads means which size).
We recently bought some of the core/sheath-bonded 10mm, and I think that's supposed to be basically a straight 10mm - it certainly looks/feels more like an 'Edelrid standard' 10.
That's currently unused, awaiting decisions on how to slice it up, so no idea how it compares in use.