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    Quote Originally Posted by disco2hse View Post
    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.
    Buying it from a rope supplier may be the cheapest option.

    Btw - to explain the different trademarks in case anyone is interested:
    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]
    (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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    Quote Originally Posted by disco2hse View Post
    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.
    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamish71 View Post
    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!!!!!
    You didn't allow an extra 10% for "wastage"

    What thickness was that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by windsock View Post
    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...
    Flipping marvelous

    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
    Alan
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    /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/

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    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    You didn't allow an extra 10% for "wastage"

    What thickness was that?
    I wasnt back into 4wding then.... 12mm

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    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 ).

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