What’s on the Ropes & Cordage poster
A 5-row table: Material · Stretch · Best for.
Common materials and their behaviour.
- Nylon — High — Shock loads, climbing, anchoring
- Polyester — Low — Rigging, halyards, guy lines
- Polypropylene — Low — Floats; cheap; UV-degrades
- Dyneema — Very low — Very strong, light, expensive
- Natural fibre — Moderate — Decorative; rots
Every knot weakens a rope by 20–50%. Whip or heat-seal cut ends, and keep rope out of prolonged sunlight.
Questions about the Ropes & Cordage poster
- What’s on the Ropes & Cordage poster?
- A 5-row table: Material · Stretch · Best for. Common materials and their behaviour. Nylon — High — Shock loads, climbing, anchoring; Polyester — Low — Rigging, halyards, guy lines; Polypropylene — Low — Floats; cheap; UV-degrades; Dyneema — Very low — Very strong, light, expensive; Natural fibre — Moderate — Decorative; rots. Every knot weakens a rope by 20–50%. Whip or heat-seal cut ends, and keep rope out of prolonged sunlight.
- Who is the Ropes & Cordage poster for?
- Ropes & Cordage belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning outdoors can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Ropes & Cordage poster?
- Match the rope to the load and the stretch you want. Nylon stretches; polyester does not. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Ropes & Cordage belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Ropes & Cordage?
- Building a Fire, Six Knots and Foraging Safety sit alongside Ropes & Cordage in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Building a FireSix KnotsForaging Safety
- Is the Ropes & Cordage poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Ropes & Cordage downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Ropes & Cordage poster print at?
- Ropes & Cordage is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Ropes & Cordage loses nothing.Printing guide
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