Hemp rope fans

Postby hogtielover1 » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:50 am

What is your favorite type of rope to tie or be tied? Mine is hemp rope. :big:

Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby Jay Candice » Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:04 am

I like cotton rope.
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Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby RopeGirlUSA » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:22 pm

hogtielover1 wrote:What is your favorite type of rope to tie or be tied? Mine is hemp rope. :big:


I have never been tied by hemp. I hear it is pretty much impossible to escqpe from.

Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby cellofello » Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:58 pm

RopeGirlUSA wrote:I have never been tied by hemp. I hear it is pretty much impossible to escqpe from.


It still depends on the thickness of the rope and the skill of the binder. However, all other things being equal, it's harder to escape from a given thickness of hemp than nylon or cotton. Hemp has very little stretch to it even after warming up.

Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby drawscore » Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:18 am

I have heard that it is the thickness of the rope that makes the difference, as opposed to the material from which the rope is made. 3/8ths or 1/2 diameter hemp rope is prone to give more slack than 1/4 inch cotton rope. Of course, if you REALLY want a tight tie that's damn near impossible to get out of, use 1/8th sash cord - that's the same stuff used to raise and lower Venetian blinds.

All that aside, the overwhelming favorite when I was a kid, was 1/4 inch cotton rope, commonly used as clothesline. We also used eight foot long strips torn from old bed sheets (originally intended as bandages in our first aid kits); rawhide/leather boot laces; leather strips from baseball glove re-stringing kits; and even our neckerchiefs a few times.

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Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby Jason Toddman » Sun Jul 01, 2012 3:34 pm

Clothesline is not only good but readily obtainable even in supermarkets.
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Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby Kyle » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:33 pm

Clothesline is pretty good.

Re: Hemp rope fans

Postby nyloncaptive87 » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:33 pm

I have a set of hemp rope for myself that i bought last spring. Its expensive. I think I paid a dollar a foot. I'm no binder. I just prefer being tied with my own rope at rope group meetings.