The thought is that synthetic winch rope, even though it's expensive, if it saves one person from injury or death the rope has paid for itself hundreds of times over. 0:00 / 0:00 Share ...

By now, the benefits of using modern synthetic winch rope are well known in the off-road world. Besides being much lighter than steel wire rope, it's also safer ...

Synthetic winch rope is easy to inspect if you know what to look for when it comes to potential trouble signs. Fig.2. When rope is new, it has a smooth finish.