Old ropes wanted

[nguyen]

I need old ropes collected from shipping, marine, fishing and aquaculture for recycling. Kindly let me know where to buy these ropes in the UK. Thanks, Bien.

 

[Gary Fox]

What are you making?

 

[Poignard]

What are you making?

Oakum?

 

[Gary Fox]

Oakum?

I was wondering if it was mats, I could do with a couple.

 

[Gary Fox]

I need old ropes collected from shipping, marine, fishing and aquaculture for recycling. Kindly let me know where to buy these ropes in the UK. Thanks, Bien.

Where are you? I would guess it's not worth posting. What kind of 'recycling'?

 

[nguyen]

Where are you? I would guess it's not worth posting. What kind of 'recycling'?

I'm in London. I'm collecting old ropes for recycling into pellets in Vietnam.

 

[yotter]

Might soon have some large ropes in Scotland. 200m by 44mm x4. Weigh quite a bit (hundreds of Kg), so expensive to send. Similar to the ones in your picture.

 

[nguyen]

Might soon have some large ropes in Scotland. 200m by 44mm x4. Weigh quite a bit (hundreds of Kg), so expensive to send. Similar to the ones in your picture.

Thanks for letting me know. Are you able to collect more ropes ?

 

[yotter]

In my experience, its the getting rid of old rope that is harder than the collecting of. Some of these rope are in Argyll, which is effectively an island today, due to the weather and lack of open roads.

 

[nguyen]

There are many trout farms in Argyll. Beside old rope, we also collect old fish farming net. It's good if you have enough rope for one truck load to save the cost. We usually use Grangemouth as loading port for these materials.

 

[john_morris_uk]

There are many trout farms in Argyll. Beside old rope, we also collect old fish farming net. It's good if you have enough rope for one truck load to save the cost. We usually use Grangemouth as loading port for these materials.

Do old ropes make much money?

 

[Gary Fox]

Do old ropes make much money?

There's a diving club up Scapa Flow somewhere, who weave it into traditional mats, I was happy to pay £25 for one, but I've lost the contact details. There are IGKT folk who do it as well, they are genuinely useful and pleasing items to make from old rope.

 

[john_morris_uk]

There's a diving club up Scapa Flow somewhere, who weave it into traditional mats, I was happy to pay £25 for one, but I've lost the contact details. There are IGKT folk who do it as well, they are genuinely useful and pleasing items to make from old rope.

I’ve got the instructions/diagrams somewhere as to how to make mats from rope if you want? (Assuming I can find them...)

 

[Gary Fox]

I’ve got the instructions/diagrams somewhere as to how to make mats from rope if you want? (Assuming I can find them...)

Thanks for the kind offer, but I haven't got enough hours in the day already

 

[john_morris_uk]

Thanks for the kind offer, but I haven't got enough hours in the day already

No problem. I know exactly how you feel.