Below, more on that and other best rope-care practices. Most ropes that you will buy will be coiled in a spool. Duh, I guess. But the reality vs. imagined difference is evident when you picture ...

When I get stuff for DIY projects, I regularly use rope to tie it all down to my trailer. When I coil up a rope for storage I wind it around my palm and elbow (on the same arm) then use the last ...

Home Depot is modifying the way it sells rope after discovering that people were making nooses out of the spooled rope in some of its stores. The home improvement retailer has taken away spools of ...

But usually time and use take their toll on that steel-braid cable, leaving it kinked, frayed, or simply a coiled mess on your winch spool ... to a synthetic winch rope for a variety of reasons.

This rope, often sold in a spool of 1000′ or in bundles of 50′, is a survivor’s best friend. The seven inner-strands each have a tensile strength of 30 pounds and can be stripped out.

The move was indeed prompted by past incidents in which customers and employees found nooses tied on the stores’ rope spools, a Home Depot spokeswoman confirmed. No incidents have been reported ...

A gear motor drive assembly and cable spool reel engineered for rope shovels has dramatically decreased the occurrence of unexpected dipper trip system failure, one of the biggest productivity ...