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    What rope

    Whilst i will have a Tirfor winch and full recovery bag of stuff, and not looking for trouble, thinking of throwing in a length of nylon rope, just in case. Note i am thinking relatively flat recoveries, not rock ledges etc.

    And im talking Defender 110 with a load.

    I'm no engineer, but 12 or 14 mm maybe ?

    Any advice welcome.
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    are you talking dynema/plasma as a winch extension, 10mm or 12mm will do. I brought two winch ropes, one fo rthe winch and the cut in two for winch extensions

    here is my thread........no sure if I mentiond in the thread but I didn't buy from where I said

    http://www.aulro.com/afvb/recovery/1...etic-rope.html

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    No, run of the mill nylon rope.
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    What? for use with your Tifor - I thought they are wire rope on as the "jaws" will chew nylon/plasma rope to pieces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by garrycol View Post
    What? for use with your Tifor - I thought they are wire rope on as the "jaws" will chew nylon/plasma rope to pieces.

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    I assumed winch extension.......I would only ever load up plasma rope and not any old nylon

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    Allow me to clarify,

    Tifor has 20 m steel wire, recovery bag has another 20m plus snatch strap. I was thinking a length of rope, say 50m could be handy when the anchor point is just that too far away. And it's cheap & light. Even doubled over it would give me an extra 25 m, or 60 m in total.
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    Ok - so essentially a winch extension strap. Why not just by a winch extension strap, they come in different lengths, can be joined and are rated.

    If you specifically want rope then it needs to be rated - I guess the same as the wire rope. To be safe I would use plasma/dymeea rope as it is rated and easy to get. You would have to go to a specialist rope supplier to get rated "normal" nylon/poly rope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by garrycol View Post
    Ok - so essentially a winch extension strap. Why not just by a winch extension strap, they come in different lengths, can be joined and are rated.

    If you specifically want rope then it needs to be rated - I guess the same as the wire rope. To be safe I would use plasma/dymeea rope as it is rated and easy to get. You would have to go to a specialist rope supplier to get rated "normal" nylon/poly rope.

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    I consider the off the shelf extension straps but they are more bulky than plasma

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    A plasma extension strap can also be used with a snatch block.
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    Forget nylon for use with a tirfor ext As nylon has the most strech of any rope you will be cranking for yonks before taking the strain Spectra or Dyneema the dearest but strongest with bugger all stretch

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