How To Coil A Rope

[AZ Prepper]

Coil Your Rope for Imminent Use
http://www.itstactical.com/2009/12/2...k-alpine-coil/
December 21, 2009




If you’re climbing or working in an area where you know you could have to deploy a rope at a moments notice, an Alpine Coil is one of the best ways to carry a rope.

An Alpine Coil stands apart from other rope coils for this exact reason, untying other coils can be time consuming and seconds count in an emergency situation.

By simply pulling the working end out of a bight and unwrapping a few turns, you’re left holding the end of the rope in one hand and throwing the remainder with the other.

As long as you’ve coiled the rope correctly, ensuring that each loop stacks on top of the latter, you’re rope should deploy perfectly.

Uses:

• Coiling rope for imminent use
• Can also be used to store rope

Tying Instructions:

1. Coil the rope, ensuring that the starting end is in your hand at the top of the coil
2. As you’re bringing the last coil past the top, form a bight in the working part
3. Take the remaining working part and make a few wraps around coils, ensuring you trap the staring end in the wraps
4. *Don’t make too many wraps here, as it defeats the purpose of having a rope ready to go for emergencies*
5. You should wind up with just enough of a working end to feed it through the bight after your wraps
6. To tighten up the bight, simply pull on the end not involved in the wrapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0GimWMxww

[rlewis581]

I find it interesting that you haven't ran into tangling problems with coiling your ropes. I have always had better luck with zig-zagging the rope back and forth and then wrapping it from one end to the other ending in a one loop tie as with yours. Zig-zagging like a fire hose on a fire truck is don for fast tangle free deployment of the hoes when seconds count in a n emergency. What do you think?
Also I have a suggestion about rope. Have you ever heard of or used "mule tape"? It is a flat braided (rope-like) tape used for pulling wire in conduit. The idea for its use is unlike rope, the flat tape won't cut into or through a 90 degree bend in PVC conduit as easily as a round rope when pulling wire under a lot of strain or pressure from its heavy weight and length. I am an electrical contractor, both here in AZ and in UT, a master electrician, have been in the trade for over 30 years and have pulled miles of wire, cable and fiber optic. This "mule tape" is extremely strong, can be bought in different breaking strengths, is light and takes less room than rope when packed. I have looped it (4x) between two heavy loaded utility work trucks to pull one out that was stuck in the sand. It also (being flat) could have better results in not cutting into a tree branch when you need to throw a rope up and over a high branch to pull something up. I use it for tying everything. I have it in my back packs and in my vehicles.
Just some thoughts of mine.
Hope it can help someone somewhere.
Rog