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WildWolf wrote:So if you were to completely soak your rope then stick it in a freezer and it completely froze all the soaked rope into a pice of ice then you took it out of your freezer then put it in the hot sun to dry would it harm the rope?
adleedy wrote:Not sure if it would harm the rope or not, but Why would you want to do this?
WildWolf wrote:adleedy wrote:Not sure if it would harm the rope or not, but Why would you want to do this?
I was just wondering. I am not actually planning on doing it ... yet.
chh wrote:I don't think it would do much to the rope, but it might harm your saturday afternoon. Now trying to use it in that state might be a different story. Ropes weaken a little when they are wet, so I imagine they would do that when frozen. But, people use skinny ropes all the time on glaciers, ice climbing, mountaineering, etc. I think the workability of a frozen rope would suffer long before the strength of the rope. I've dealt a little with frozen ropes and/or rigging gear, but that was all in patches on the rope and not the whole thing. But, I'm an armchair philosopher in such cases. I've no scientific proof to say it wouldn't hurt the rope, but I've also no empirical proof to say that it would.
in the event of streaming (alternate freezing and melting) of the rope surface, the build-up of ice on the rope can not only prevent the use of our vertical gear, bu can also create a considerably heavier load on the rope that leads to breakage;
the rope can become stuck by the ice to the cave wall, preventing its use;
traverse lines can become stiff, which has an adverse effect on our cowstails, as discussed in section D3.
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