Synthetic Winch Rope

[Madaz]

Time to start a thread on whos using what and how you rate it,
Theres always been the problem of price, but after seeing more and more of it on trips lately, it seem brutally obvious that you get what you pay for.
Recently ive seen it breaking on simple straight pulls with virtually no load on it at all.

I use 11mm Amsteel blue from ultra ropes, with a overbraid stiched on, never broken a rope at all, in fact ive been running the same rope for the last 2years and have done all winch comps and club trips on it.Hundreds of winches, and it still looks like new.
For its price i think its pretty good value and Tonys service is top notch too.

[crazyclark31]

Don't know what brand it is but i've got the 12mm stuff that came with my winch(runva 12000lb). Have had it for about 8months now
Seems to be handling the work its been put through. Some pulls have been double purchase and its been close to stall.(Bloody big nissans!)
I do make sure that it is covered when not in use.

[meatc]

Not 100% on the brand name but it comes from cookes. 60m of 8mm on my zuk W/C thing. Broke one after 2 1/2 years abuse, only washed it once and never turned it around. When it broke my modded then 6hp warn 8274 was just about to stop, and it broke in the most well used section of rope. Expensive yes, worth it hell yes.

[Sadam_Husain]

yeah its been a bit of a topic of conversation the past few weeks, different people have different needs and expectations with winch rope like some mall crawler joker with his flash shiney winch on the front dosent really need anything much on the front of his truck other than what looks good as opposed to club trips, hard yakka trips and comps and events where you need to depend on the reliability of the winch and rope to get you through stuff and out of shit... having said that I've just tried a 10mm chinese runva rope and posted about it in another thread the other day, its done 16 winches and broken 3 times, I put it on halfway through the last stage at Gwavas last Sept when my old rope finely broke and it did a really hard double line pull uphill bulldozing that peaty mud up to one of the headlights no problem but ever since its been snapping like shoelaces on random easy winches, its just breaking as if its old and rotten or something

the last (3rd) time it broke (winch No 13) wasnt a hard pull, the rope was on a bit of an angle and the front wheel was in a hole but it just let go half way along the rope not at the fairlead where the most stress was



I brought 2 of those chinese ropes and arent going to bother putting the second one on so that now leaves me $450 plus freight out of pocket after doing 16 winches

my first rope was a preloved (ie secondhand) 10mm plus overbraid (prob dynex dux or something like that) that I got 6 years ago and I gave that to beer cruiser 2 years ago after we stuck it on his truck for Costa tuff truck and Malc's done a lot of hard work with it and hasnt been able to break it (yet ) and now he's ended up offering it back to me to use for the woodhill tuff truck at easter

if your not in the mall crawler category the chinese shit sounds cheap at the start but when you add up how often you'll break them and have to replace them they'll end up dearer in the long run than shelling out some bigger initial bucks for a quality rope

anyone want to buy the remaining 8m of my near new chinese rope... only used 16 times and going cheap (dosent include hook)

[crazyclark31]

thats interesting as,as i said previously i've got the runva 12mm on my safari. its done easliy 40 pulls now and lots of them have been near full load. this being on of the easier pulls.

no breaks as yet

[mudlva]

I’ve got 14mm on mudlva. Its the blue rope from Cookes, I’ve only broken it once so far and I’m putting that down to a brain fad and not listening to what the truck was doing
Previous rope was cheap Chinese 12mm got it for a bargain ah and it broke several times before a spat the dummy and bought quality

Its funny really as every body say go get the good stuff but human nature says go buy the cheap shit first, so that’s what I did any way

Its good to have life skills I suppose

Anyway my 14mm is going strong I’ve done dozens of hard recoveries now and its showing no signs of wear although I do wash it regularly. I wash it in a concrete mixer with just the rope by itself and a running hose so the dirty water gets flushed out. Do the same with all my recovery ropes as well.

Oh fyi its rated at 27t on Cookes test bed.