Synthetic rope

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Originally Posted by disco2hse

Bought 9mm rope from the shipping suppliers, including splicing on the non-slip eye and a hook. $8.50/m (plus GST). Came straight off the reel, spliced then and there.

Buy branded and you pay extra.

This is braided dyna-whatsit. Yellow, not blue but who cares. Oh, and he supplies a number of winch challenge teams with 11mm of the same type.

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Buying it from a rope supplier may be the cheapest option.

Btw - to explain the different trademarks in case anyone is interested:

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Trade names

Dyneema is a registered trademark of Royal DSM (The Netherlands). Dyneema was invented by DSM in 1979. It has been in commercial production since 1990 at a plant in Heerlen, the Netherlands. In East Asia, DSM has a cooperation agreement with Toyobo for commercial production in Japan. In the United States, DSM has a production facility in Greenville, North Carolina, which is the largest production facility in the United States for UHMWPE fiber.[4]

Honeywell developed a product identical in chemical structure, which is sold under the brand name Spectra. Though the production details are somewhat different, the resulting materials are comparable in properties.[5]

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(from Wikipedia)

Buying from the US may be the cheapest option? May need to buy a roll though!
12-Strand Single-Braided DYNEEMA ®

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Originally Posted by disco2hse

Bought 9mm rope from the shipping suppliers, including splicing on the non-slip eye and a hook. $8.50/m (plus GST). Came straight off the reel, spliced then and there.

Buy branded and you pay extra.

This is braided dyna-whatsit. Yellow, not blue but who cares. Oh, and he supplies a number of winch challenge teams with 11mm of the same type.

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How is that Thomas Winch going for you? I have used mine a bit this firewood season - most often simply to pull logs but I have dragged Murdoch (the land rover) out a few times as well. Quite an interesting sight to see a pile of firewood double-hauled from a bog with a truck underneath it... :D

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Tigerz11.com.au

$289 for 30 m of 9 mm
$310 for 28 m of 10 mm



Tigerz11 claim their rope is dyneema




Yes but it isn't any old run of the mill rope/sheet/hawse.
Dyneema (Spectra) Winch Rope
BIAS Boating list 7 mm Dyneema for what works out as $9.64/m. Tigerz11 sell 9 mm for $9.63/m.

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Thats a good price. We recently had to do a job for some 'special vehicles', and needed 8km of dyneema. Quoted price was $8.00/m

I wish Id known 12 months later I was going to want 40m of the stuff for myself!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Hamish71

Thats a good price. We recently had to do a job for some 'special vehicles', and needed 8km of dyneema. Quoted price was $8.00/m

I wish Id known 12 months later I was going to want 40m of the stuff for myself!!!!!

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You didn't allow an extra 10% for "wastage" :confused: ;) :D

What thickness was that?

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Originally Posted by windsock

How is that Thomas Winch going for you? I have used mine a bit this firewood season - most often simply to pull logs but I have dragged Murdoch (the land rover) out a few times as well. Quite an interesting sight to see a pile of firewood double-hauled from a bog with a truck underneath it... :D

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Flipping marvelous :D

Wish I'd done it sooner. Been a couple of times that'd have been stuck in an awkward situation without it. Still have the turfor type hand winch, just in case ;)

Oh, I thought it might be too low but only once have I hit the bash plate but that was going down a verrry steep slope into a mud hole. The entry was so steep the guy behind me said he got a really chance to see from the tail gate right down into the engine bay :eek:

/threadjackon/

Yes, the Thomas is a low mounted winch uhh. I was looking at altering the spool width on mine so I can then run it in under-wind mode without rope rubbing the gearhousing. I was just going to make a two piece wood insert to bolt in place to 'push' the rope alignment further away from the gearhouse. Then, being under-wind, I could lift the whole winch up three - four inches and the rope won't rub on the rails of my deck (being mid-mount rear facing).

/threadjackoff/

Being of Scottish extraction, I looked at purchasing from America, but the best deal was the $310 Tigerz from Piranna at Bayswater. It comes fitted with heat shield, hook eyelet & end protector, plus eye at the drum end to affix it.

Thanx to all 4 the replies.
Deejay, what size?what length? Synthetic rope..........of coarse:D.
Cheers Dean.

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

You didn't allow an extra 10% for "wastage" :confused: ;) :D

What thickness was that?

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I wasnt back into 4wding then....:( 12mm

Dyneema fibre ropes are said to be 20% stronger than steel (winch) ropes of the same diameter and consequently the usual size to replace an existing steel winch rope is usually 1-2 mm smaller in diameter. What this does is allow more rope (ie greater length) to be spooled onto the winch drum. A 12 mm Dyneema rope has a reported breaking strength of about 16,000 kg (see Dynamica Rope - World's Strongest Fibre ).