On Aug 24, 7:39*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Aug 24, 5:23*am, "HL Falbaum" wrote:



"brianDG303" wrote in message

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On Aug 23, 6:42 pm, BTiz wrote:

On Aug 23, 4:38 pm, tazman wrote:

I'm looking for sources of tow rope in the USA. Can you help?

Thanks,
Doug

We get our rope from the local "rigging" store.
600ft spool of 5/8 3 ply ploy pro makes three 200ft tow ropes, we put
an eye splice in each end and appropriate weak links.
Each spool costs us about $84 and the three ropes last about 9 months,
3 months each rope. We operate off a paved runway, do not drop the
rope on landing, but the end does get dragged across a gravel area
before the pavement on landing. The "whip" end of the rope gets
weaker and we normally trim about 10ft and redo the eye splice.
Normally after 2 trimmings it is time to replace the rope.

We use Samson Polytron Quiksplice:

http://www.cbknot.com/QuikSplicePolytron.htm

about $0.08 from many sources. It's something like spun olefin (Tyvek)
and it is really good stuff. It is a UV resistant abraision resistant
rigging line use in fishnet rigging applications.

Brian

I can't tell from the catalogue. Is this a hollow braid rope?

Thanks

Hartley Falbaum

This? *12-strand single braid description, but the image appears to be
double braid.

http://www.samsonrope.com/index.cfm?rope=66

That's the rope we use, in 6mm or 1/4". I'm not sure what hollow braid
is exactly but we use a hollow braid splice to put the rings on, you
loop it back on itself, shove about 18" up into the hollow core
(through the braid) and you are good.

Brian