Heavy Duty Bull Rope Bag

A bull rope bag is a large, heavy duty bag for storing and deploying thick rigging lines on removals. It keeps a long, heavy rope out of the chips and lets the ground crew pay it out without a pile of tangles.

Why rigging line needs its own bag

Bull rope takes a beating: it drags through dirt, runs over bark, and sits in the chip pile between picks. Grit inside the braid wears fibers from the inside, so keeping the line in a bag between jobs adds real life to an expensive rope.

A big bag also speeds the job. The groundie can feed rope up to the climber straight from the bag, and at the end of the day the line is flaked back in instead of wrapped around a forearm and thrown on the truck. A tidy drop zone is also a safer one, with less rope underfoot for the ground crew to trip on. Clearly separating rigging line from climbing line is another reason to give bull rope a bag of its own.

Packing and care

Flake the rope in from one end so the other end comes out first and clean. If you carry climbing lines too, keep them in separate rope bags so life-support rope never ends up mixed with rigging rope.

Dump the bag out periodically to clear sawdust and let it dry fully after wet days. Inspect the rope itself before every job for cuts, glazing, and stiff sections, and retire it when it is damaged.