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Fast Ropes (Swarming Ropes)

Tried and tested world-wide by Regular and Special Forces, the Marlow Fast Ropes are specially designed for rapid descents from helicopters without the need for conventional harnesses or specialised equipemnt. The soft construction of the rope allows exact and comfortable control throughout descent.

Recommended for use with the Marlow Fast Rope gloves.

Fast & F.R.I.E.S. Rope Information

Designed to deploy and retrieve personnel by simply clipping them and their equipment to the loops with quick release karabiners.

F.R.I.E.S. increase deployment and retrieval speed reducing the risk to helicopters and personnel. A group of up to 12 personnel (6 per rope) can be deployed or retrieved in 10 seconds using a two-rope system.

Fast & F.R.I.E.S. Rope Information

Diameter: 40mm

Construction: 8 plait Nylon (Matt finish)

Colours: Olive Drab

Terminations:

Spliced Eye (S.E.)

Standard Conical Termination (S.C.T.)

New Multifit Termination (M.F.T.)

Weight: 94 kg / 100m

Attachment Options

Marlow offer a selection of terminations for Fast Ropes and F.R.I.E.S. covering a number of varied applications:

Spliced Eye (S.E.)

Ideally suited for training scenarios. The over sized eye can be easily hooked over support beams or scaffolding to mimic a helicopter descent.

Standard Concial Termination (S.C.T.)

Designed by Marlow for use with a helicopter cargo hook or hoist system. It is attached using a bolt and split pin.

Multifit Terminations (M.F.T.)

The new M.F.T. has been designed by Marlow to fit a wider range of helicopter cargo hooks and hoist systems. The M.F.T. features a 45mm machined eye allowing fast attachment and removal.

Marlow Standard Conical

Termination (S.C.T.)

ACCESSORIES

Fast Rope and F.R.I.E.S. Bag

Made from PVC / Nylon convas with webbing carry handles and a heavy duty covered zip. This bag is designed to accommodate all Fast / Swarming rope assemblies.

Dimensions: Length 25cm x Height 61cm x Width 28cm

Colours: Olive Drab or Black (Special Order)

Fast Rope Gloves

The standard gloves are manufactured from reinforced leather with a wool lining on the palm and a Velcro wrist adjustment.

A special hard wearing heat resistant version is also available using Aramid lined palms for added protection (NSN 8415-99-833-0147)

Sizes: Medium and Large

Colours: Black

ACCESSORIES

Abseil Leg Bag

The Marlow Abseil Leg bag is a compact carry bag available in two sizes that can accommodate 100m and 61m lengths of Abseil rope. It's simple design allows for easy stowage and kink free deployment, making rapid decent as trouble free as possible.

Dimensions: Length 20cm, Height 40cm, Width 20cm

Colours: Olive Drab or Black (special order)

Abseil Gloves / Mitts

Abseil gloves are manufactured from water-resistant leather and feature special goatskin reinforcement to the palm and thumb. The goatskin gives additional protection to areas that are in contact with the rope. The Abseil Mitt is a one-fingered mitt manufactured from cowhide with strap and roller fastening. The special design of this mitt allows the trigger finger to be free.

Sizes: Medium, Large

Colours: Black

Descenders and Karabiners

Marlow offer a figure of 8 descender and a horned figure of 8 descender both forged from high strength alloy in matt black. Marlow can offer a wide range of karabiners manufactured from various materials with various gate options.

Further details are available on request.

Standard Towing and Recovery Rope Assembly

Spliced Eye Sizes

K.E.R.R. and Recoverline 450mm

Polyester and H.M.P.E. Tow Ropes 250mm

ACCESSORIES

K.E.R.R. Bag

A highly durable bag that allows easy transportation and storage of the K.E.R.R.

Made from PVC / Nylon canvas with webbing carry handles and a heavy duty covered zip. Designed to comfortably accommodate all K.E.R.R. rope lengths up to 80mm is diameter.

Dimensions: Length 100cm x Height 40cm x Width 40cm

Colours: Olive Drab or Black (special order)

Strength and power

the ultimate DYNAMICA ropes

DYNAMICA ropes are made from Dyneema fibres produced by DSM in Holland.

Dyneema is one of the strongest fibres in the world. The ropes have excellent properties with regard to strength, weight, UV stability (daylight), safety, abrasion, tension fatigue, bending fatigue.

DYNAMICA ropes are the most compact ropes in the world made from Dyneema fibres.

DYNAMICA ropes are produced in Denmark on state of the art machinery, to ensure the best obtainable quality.

DYNAMICA ropes are coated with a unique cotaing that ensures shape stability and increased abrasion resistance for longer working life.

DYNAMICA ropes are heat-set under tension to ensure maximum strength, durability and uniformity.

The Dyneema Fibre Properties

Strength

Dyneema is more than ten times stronger than steel per unit of weight. This means that a Dynamica rope has a slightly higher strength than a steel wire of the same dimension - but less than one tenth of the weight.

Tension - tension fatigue

Dyneema can sustain a very large number of peak loads (loads close to the breaking strength). This gives a long life and a high safe working load. While steel wire can take 6500 loads at 50% of the maximum breaking load DYNAMICA ropes can take 10 million cycles at the same load level. DYNAMICA ropes are threfore an excellent material for dynamic applications.

Safety

Dyneema has a very low elongation (2-3% at break). It stores very little energy and therefore has little backlash - even at hundreds of tonnes of load. Using Dyneema the amount of stored energy is much lower vis a vis nylon or steel wire ropes. This is a very important safety feature.

UV Stability

Dyneema has a better stability to sunlight than other relevant fibres. After two years of exposure 80% of the strength is retained.

Resistance to chemical substances

Dyneema is resistant to chemical substances and will not be affected by oil, acids or other substances.

Abrasion

Dyneema has an excellent abrasion resistance compared with other synthetic fibres (five times better than polyester). Special care has to be taken, however, in order to ensure that it moves over clean nonrust surfaces etc. Sharp edges etc should be avoided.

Bending - bending fatigue

Dyneema has good bending properties.

However, it is recommended to bend over diameters of at least five times the diameter of the rope.

Applications:

Offshore applications, Fisheries, Bridles, Gilsons, Cod lines, Head lines, Selvage ropes, Front end meshes, Warps

Lifting applications, Mooring ropes, Towing, 4x4WD

Dynamica Ropes are very well suited for the Offshore and Mooring applications because of the low weight and high strength characteristics. Its speed and easy handling are other important parameters makes it suitable for Mooring.

We have given a unique solution for the high tides breakage of ordinary fibre Mooring Ropes. AP Moller has used the unique solution in the ports that are subject to high tides during the monsoon. They are satisfied with the Dynamica Rope solution. Earlier when they were using ordinary fibre ropes, with the berthing of one ship, they used to lose one mooring rope in the monsoon time because of the high tides. But now with the application of the Unique Solution using Dynamica ropes, not even a single rope has broken in the last 2 years. This speaks for itself.

* Lighter in weight for the same breaking strength and easier to handle. Less crew required.

These ropes are preferred in fishing to being used as Bridles, Gilson's Cod lines, Headlines and Salvage ropes in comparison to other traditional ropes.