Places to find arm over arm rope

[Lance Remus]

Just thought I'd post up a question I've been chasing throughout the last week. Where has everyone gotten their arm over arm rope from? I have a competition coming up at the end of April and would like to get some training in before I have to do it. I should mention that one of my training partners found 1.5" rope for ~$2/ft at a Fleet Farm store, but that gets a little out of pocket range for me considering I need >50ft of it.

Any suggestions?

[Jay Hagadorn]

http://www.brutestrength.com/store/cart.php?target=category&category_id=25

[Paul Neuhaus]

http://www.brutestrength.com/store/cart.php?target=category&category_id=25
That's around $2.70 per foot. $1.89 at Fleet Farm is more like it. If it's for farm use, you don't pay sales tax there, and we train at a farm.... :cool:

[Jay Hagadorn]

That's around $2.70 per foot. $1.89 at Fleet Farm is more like it. If it's for farm use, you don't pay sales tax there, and we train at a farm.... :cool:

Paul-

Does Fleet Farm have a web site?

[Dan Harrison]

A friend of mine gave me a 100' length, 2" thick for FREE. Suck on my crap! HAHAH


I was just lucky that he would let me "borrow" the rope. He will never see that rope again!

[Paul Neuhaus]

Paul-

Does Fleet Farm have a web site?
I'll find out, but I don't think so. They're all over the Midwest. I guess you'll have to come to our Pro/Am in August, and I'll take you there for some rope! HAHA We also get our horse linaments there. Let me see what I can find out.

Edit:
OK, here's their website.
http://www.fleetfarm.com/
The only problem is that it doesn't look like you can order online from them. But, I could be wrong.

[Lance Remus]

That's around $2.70 per foot. $1.89 at Fleet Farm is more like it. If it's for farm use, you don't pay sales tax there, and we train at a farm.... :cool:

Is that really a good price? Even 1.89/ft sounds pricey to me. Of course I'm in college and don't have a job at the moment... :rolleyes:

[Scott Kaiser]

That is a fair price, rope isn't cheap considering when we had to string 3" rope around a deck at a job last summer it cost $3.25/ft plus shipping. The only place that carried it was a ship yard in Florida. BTW 500ft of rope was a killer workout stringing it around to make it look like pirate ship.

I don't know if it would be cheaper but you might look at buying three strands of thinner rope and braiding them together.

[Eric Johnson]

Or you can try here, http://www.knotandrope.com/manilla.htm, $1.59/ft for 1.5" manila rope.

[Lance Remus]

Or you can try here, http://www.knotandrope.com/manilla.htm, $1.59/ft for 1.5" manila rope.


Thanks Eric. Looks like a good link. As to the buying smaller diameter rope and intertwining them to form one big rope...Not a good idea. If you look at the strength ratings of the different diameter ropes, you'll notice the breaking strength of the 1/2" rope is only 2300 lbs vs the 1.5" being almost 17000 lbs. Big difference, otherwise, for the price it would be a great idea.

[Ryan Brown]

Thanks Eric. Looks like a good link. As to the buying smaller diameter rope and intertwining them to form one big rope...Not a good idea. If you look at the strength ratings of the different diameter ropes, you'll notice the breaking strength of the 1/2" rope is only 2300 lbs vs the 1.5" being almost 17000 lbs. Big difference, otherwise, for the price it would be a great idea.

the 1.5" rope is nothing but 3 smaller ropes braided together. If you could braid them together they there would be no difference in breaking strength. Problem is that it would seem to me to be impossible to actually braid it together so that it is tight like a real rope.

$1.59 is not a bad price.

[Aaron Ramsey]

Look in the news papers for farm auctions. You can pick the up pretty cheap there. Farmers always have one or two in their hay lofts they don't need anymore. Hope that helps.