I have read a few articles on the pros and cons. We didn't have synthetic when I was young. All steel all the time. Any thoughts on which is the better overall. I don't use a winch much, but when I do I really need it.
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Frankly if you are dissing syn rope.
A. You have never used or been around it.
B. You are winching retarded. There aren't many real reasons to drag your cable ever. Especially "over a waterfall". Odds are, you need a couple lessons in winch rigging.
Frankly if you are dissing syn rope.
A. You have never used or been around it.
B. You are winching retarded. There aren't many real reasons to drag your cable ever. Especially "over a waterfall". Odds are, you need a couple lessons in winch rigging.
Frankly if you are dissing syn rope.
A. You have never used or been around it.
B. You are winching retarded. There aren't many real reasons to drag your cable ever. Especially "over a waterfall". Odds are, you need a couple lessons in winch rigging.
Saying someone is winch retarded because they still are using steel cable is a bit narrow minded.
My wild guess is that most people use their winch 5 or less times a year., often times maybe once in 2-3 years. And a very high percentage of pulls are less than 10-20 yards. For a lot of these folks they can't warrant the extra cost of the syn line.
I've got two 8274's, each for 15+ years...and both have steel cables. Both with aprox 7-8 pulls a year and both steel cables are still in good shape. With my kind of use, if these lines were synthetic they definitely would have been replaced...at least once...due to wear and/or age, no doubt about it.
Synthetic line is good stuff, many of my wheeling buddies have it on their winches, but for some of us, steel cable fills the bill...and we aren't winch retarded.
Yep, I think that IS what you said. Exactly.
I have never felt the need or desire to switch to synthetic. I've assisted those with synthetic and agree with the few advantages - light weight, ease of handling and safety if breaking. But, for reliability and longevity without having to nursemaid it - I just prefer the ruggedness of the wire rope. As for which is superior - I'd say that depends on the circumstances. Yeah, sometimes synthetic is superior, but it will never replace wire rope, IMHO.Maybe...but I don't think either version is a fair assessment.
And I've been in more than one situation where the only way I could get up & over was to 'drag the damn cable/rope all over the ground'.