Old but Never been used rope

I would use it for top roping and rapping, but not for leading.

Static lines still stretch a few percent, and the fall factors in top ropes are so *much* lower than they ever are in leading. A ropes course that I instructed for in grad school used static lines exclusively for the top ropes due to their ability to stand up to abuse.

Climbers (myself included) use 6mil and 7mil tag lines for rapping. Or, they take big whippers on skinny ropes after having taken a few whippers already. Or, gym ropes get the snot kicked out of them before they are retired. Compare that to the aged strength of a new 7/16 line, and it's still a huge margin of safety.

On top of all that, consider the POS ropes that the 80's lycra climbers used.

Sweet...send the spool to 5.Samadhi and he can confirm whether it's static or dynamic. The talented folks you meet on MP!

757wakeboarder wrote:I'm looking for some advice about some climbing rope I was recently given. A close friend of mine that I have known for about 10 years and is my next door neighbor had a spool that had 600 feet of climbing rope on it.

Mark Pilate wrote:Sweet...send the spool to 5.Samadhi and he can confirm whether it's static or dynamic. The talented folks you meet on MP!