Rope storage and carry

[Uilleachan]

Daisy chaining is the most practical coiling method if you have a bag/pocket to stuff the rope/cord in for carrying.

Wet rope, can be pulled from the bag and hung up to dry with no other handling as even a tightly daisy chained rope has relatively lose coils, by contrast a laid coil has to be uncoiled to dry. Not such an issue with cord, unless it's natural fibre and it's to be stowed for a while, in which case you don't want to store it wet.

Also a daisy chained rope/cord is almost impossible to tangle whilst uncoiling it, firstly the rope/cord can only be pulled off one way, if a knot on the bite is used to start the chain and secondly, the natural tendency for twisting is annulled as the user pulls the cord off the chain.

With rope, it's easy to work any twisting out as it's laid into a round coil by counter twisting the rope as it's coiled, cord has the disadvantage for laid coiling as it's too thin and therefore doesn't offer enough resistance for counter twisting to be effective unless it's being coiled into a small coil, daisy chaining is the solution for cord, IMO.

 

[techworm]

Kelly Harlton and Mors Kochanski for paracord [video=youtube;0eESQqNY__s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eESQqNY__s[/video]

 

[Lithril]

ML's often carry a smaller (8mm) rope as a confidence rope. What I usually do (as suggested above) is to have a small rope bag which can go in the top of my day bag and you literally just feed the rope in in a similar way to throw ropes. The benefit of this is that you can have the loose end tied to a shoulder strap or similar and if you need it just start pulling it out, never had it tangle using this method.

 

[Hunkyfunkster]

This thread has loads of great ideas.

Thanks guys




Alex

 

[Coffeecup]

For twine, or think cordage I keep it in a tin with a hole in the lid

I'm. . . an idiot. In more than 40 years of hauling around various threads and strings and twine, I never thought of this. The knots and snarls and birdsnests have been bad enough at times that I've probably thrown away as much string as I've used over the years. I'm definitely going to have to do some re-arranging in my kit, so I can implement this. Thanks!