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carabiner96
Apr 29, 2009, 5:50 PM
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drink the bleach, eat the potatoes, and piss on the rope.
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desertwanderer81
Apr 29, 2009, 5:55 PM
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markc wrote: desertwanderer81 wrote: Common genious! Now how are you going to light the BBQ without a lighter? JEEZE....... Your grill doesn't have a button ignition? Lame ass.
I grill with charcoal!
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reno
Apr 29, 2009, 6:21 PM
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angry wrote: desertwanderer81 wrote: Just use a sharpie and be done with it. It's the easiest and fastest way...... Not if you don't have a sharpie. I've only got a bottle of bleach, iodine, and bucket of half rotted potatoes. How should I mark my rope?
Cat piss.
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angry
Apr 29, 2009, 6:23 PM
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reno wrote: angry wrote: desertwanderer81 wrote: Just use a sharpie and be done with it. It's the easiest and fastest way...... Not if you don't have a sharpie. I've only got a bottle of bleach, iodine, and bucket of half rotted potatoes. How should I mark my rope? Cat piss.
I don't have a cat (well, I do but it's in my freezer and isn't able to piss anymore).
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bill413
Apr 29, 2009, 7:48 PM
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desertwanderer81 wrote: Common genious! Now how are you going to light the BBQ without a lighter? JEEZE.......
Rope the rope & potatoes together until they combust?
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bill413
Apr 29, 2009, 7:54 PM
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angry wrote: angry wrote: Not if you don't have a sharpie. I've only got a bottle of bleach, iodine, and bucket of half rotted potatoes. How should I mark my rope? ... I was thinking of inserting parts of the potato into the middle so you'd feel it when it passed. The bleach was to sanitize not only the potatoes (cause they're rotting) but also the entire length of the rope because outdoors is icky and germy. The iodine is to clean any wounds I inflict on myself cutting the potato or opening the sheath in the middle. .... The other is, will stitching my sheath back together be better or should I try to melt it back together? I'd use a patch kit but that's not in my list of materials.
I think you should treat the rope with the iodine where you cut the sheath or the core so that it doesn't get infected. After all, there are all those germs floating out there (especially on your partners). Do this before melting it back together (or stapling - I think lots of doctors are using staples now instead of stitching).
I do like the idea of the potatoes for tactile feedback, and being rotten they would still squeeze down to pass thru a belay device.
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Adk
Apr 29, 2009, 8:44 PM
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If you don't like marker nor dental floss try a weaving a contrasting yarn through the rope sheath. I've gotten two years out of it before it needs replacing.
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shockabuku
Apr 29, 2009, 8:58 PM
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desertwanderer81 wrote: Common genious!
WTF?
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desertwanderer81
Apr 29, 2009, 9:14 PM
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Adk wrote: If you don't like marker nor dental floss try a weaving a contrasting yarn through the rope sheath. I've gotten two years out of it before it needs replacing.
How dare you reply with a legitimate answer!!! :D
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petsfed
Apr 29, 2009, 9:15 PM
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reg wrote: IMHO - i don't agree with weaving dental floss into the mantel. i believe you could possibly degrade it's integraty. when those yarns get stretched tighter then tight on a fall, you don't want anything in between them like sand, grit, even water, which causes excess pressure. sand and grit cut and bla, bla, bla.
Except that if you only weave it into the sheath, you're not touching the part of the rope that actually needs to be strong. We worry about sand and what not getting into the core and acting like tiny knives, but the sheath is supposed to be up to it.
I've used the weave in method and it works very well. When I had to cut off 3m from the end, it took about 5 minutes to pull out the old mark, and another 20 to locate the new middle and remark it. No real problem.
My workhorse rope is a bipattern though. Its only got a summer left in it though, and then its due to be retired.
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Adk
Apr 29, 2009, 10:17 PM
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desertwanderer81 wrote: Adk wrote: If you don't like marker nor dental floss try a weaving a contrasting yarn through the rope sheath. I've gotten two years out of it before it needs replacing. How dare you reply with a legitimate answer!!! :D
I've been scorned.. I'll try to be more sarcastic from now on.
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desertwanderer81
Apr 29, 2009, 10:20 PM
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Adk wrote: desertwanderer81 wrote: Adk wrote: If you don't like marker nor dental floss try a weaving a contrasting yarn through the rope sheath. I've gotten two years out of it before it needs replacing. How dare you reply with a legitimate answer!!! :D I've been scorned.. I'll try to be more sarcastic from now on.
Now you're getting the idea!! Good job!
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Terry2124
May 1, 2009, 3:27 AM
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You can buy a special dye for marking rope which is ok'ed by the rope manufacturers.
Its cheap and most climbing stores should have it
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kylekienitz
May 1, 2009, 4:15 AM
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if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark.
Plus you get a cool design!!
(This post was edited by kylekienitz on May 1, 2009, 4:16 AM)
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bill413
May 1, 2009, 2:05 PM
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kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!!
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Lazlo
May 1, 2009, 2:30 PM
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bill413 wrote: kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!! Would you use summer or winter tires?
studded tires with chains.
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shoo
May 1, 2009, 2:37 PM
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I like using a knife to mark the middle. That way you'll never lose it, 'cause it's an end!
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bill413
May 1, 2009, 2:52 PM
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Lazlo wrote: bill413 wrote: kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!! Would you use summer or winter tires? studded tires with chains.
But I thought chains were to mark the top end of the rope, at the anchors.
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kylekienitz
May 1, 2009, 8:46 PM
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shoo wrote: I like using a knife to mark the middle. That way you'll never lose it, 'cause it's an end!
This is actually a pretty good way to retrieve the rope after rappelling. Except you cut the rope until it can still hold one person's body weight. Then you get down and instead of having to pull the rope (boring and slow), you just have a friend pull on one side with you on the other until it breaks and comes down (quick and easy)! Methods like this have really saved me a lot of time at the crag.
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bill413
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kylekienitz wrote: shoo wrote: I like using a knife to mark the middle. That way you'll never lose it, 'cause it's an end! This is actually a pretty good way to retrieve the rope after rappelling. Except you cut the rope until it can still hold one person's body weight. Then you get down and instead of having to pull the rope (boring and slow), you just have a friend pull on one side with you on the other until it breaks and comes down (quick and easy)! Methods like this have really saved me a lot of time at the crag.
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no_email_entered
May 1, 2009, 10:27 PM
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kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!!
yep---
---this is exactly how petzl marked their zephyrs
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Lazlo
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no_email_entered wrote: kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!! yep--- ---this is exactly how petzl marked their zephyrs
Ouch.
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Terry2124
May 2, 2009, 3:51 AM
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Lazlo wrote: no_email_entered wrote: kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!! yep--- ---this is exactly how petzl marked their zephyrs Ouch.
Mammut uses drunk people who pee on the middle of the rope during St. Patty's day, green dye.
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bill413
May 2, 2009, 1:16 PM
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Terry2124 wrote: Lazlo wrote: no_email_entered wrote: kylekienitz wrote: if you don't want to waste you time with "special dye" you can just find the middle and then drive back and forth over it enough times until the tires leave a good solid mark. Plus you get a cool design!! yep--- ---this is exactly how petzl marked their zephyrs Ouch. Mammut uses drunk people who pee on the middle of the rope during St. Patty's day, green dye.
Good thing they don't use cats!!
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johnny2plat
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Forget the dental floss. It just comes off after a few rappels. Bust out the wallet and spend $5 on a set of 3 Avery Marks a Lot Pens. You can find them at Rite Aid, Amazon, & probably Staples. They are "non toxic" and safe for children. New England recommends them. It's better than rapping off the end of your rope cuz you missed the middle.
http://www.amazon.com/...320022327&sr=8-2
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