Recent content by damontlarsen

S2DM, I'm sorry to hear that the project hit many unexpected pitfalls and become so stressful. I have not had any work done by Lite Industries, but the only thing I can add is that when I went to tour their facility, I stopped by while driving from Alaska to the lower 48 and got there at the...

Mark, Thanks for taking the time to show me around your shop yesterday. As beautiful as your work looks online, it was remarkably more impressive in person! -Dave

*I found a distributor that sells it by the foot. Seems to be reasonably priced as well: http://www.go2marine.com/product/38345F/amsteel-blue-rope.html

Have you looked into heavy industrial ropes? The strongest rope I know of is Amsteel-Blue which is made of a synthetic fiber called Dyneema. You can order this stuff with a 4.5 million pound(!) working load. I worked in a gold mine in alaska and we would use this stuff to pull D8's and D9's...