Introduction and Tools Overview

This is Chris in Boise. In this video, we're going to show you how to re- rope a 24 ft ladder. And the ladders themselves come with a stock nylon rope. And the nylon rope doesn't last very long in the sun when they're sitting on our vans on top of the vans and they have a tendency to fray. And when you're using 24T ladders on a daily basis all day long, you can get rope burns on your hands. very uncomfortable. And we actually thread our uh ladders with a climbing style rope. It's a diamond braided poly rope. It's a lot more comfortable in your hands and won't burn your hands if you're extending the ladders up and down very fast. And we to complete this task, we got a 3/8 in nylon diamond braided poly rope. It's at um and to start off this task, the rope we're actually using, we purchased from Home Depot. uh diamond braided poly rope. And this is a three 38 inch rope and it comes in a length of 100 ft. And I got a yellow rope and a red rope here. They're both the same. I've also purchased rope clamps to clamp the rope at the bottom of the ladder. You're going to be needing and a knife or a pair of scissors actually cut the rope. So, I got a pair of scissors. You're going to need some type of match flame lighter to melt the end of the rope. the end of the rope. When you cut it, will fray. So, you want to take and melt it with a lighter. And then you're going to be needing a pair of pliers for your rope clamp. And you got a 24 ft ladder right here. And this ladder, the rope broke, so the rope's not actually on it. We're going to show you how to re- rope a ladder if it actually have a rope on it. If it has the rope already on it, you can see how it's strung. You can carefully take it off and string it the exact same way. we don't have the benefit of this. So, we're going to show you how to re- rope a ladder that doesn't have a rope on it. I'm going to