Main Applications:
Python® Compac 18 is recommended for both multipart load and single part applications where a medium rotational stability is needed. Use as main- and auxiliary hoist line on GROVE, LINK BELT, MANITOWOC, TEREX and other US made mobile- and truck cranes. Large lifting heights will require a tag line to prevent spinning of the load.

Also used very successfully as a pulling rope on underground cable pulling winches.

NOT recommended for construction tower cranes.

Rope Characteristic:
The biggest and most important difference is that this rope has been compacted and is not made from die-drawn strands as is it’s ‘brother’ on the previous page. The compacting process creates a super smooth outer rope surface which has shown great improvements when working on multiple layer drums.

The super smooth rope surface makes this rope glide against each other as it spools into the next drum wrap; interlocking and the associated ‘grinding’ and mechanical damages between the strands are greatly reduced.

Python® Compac 18 wire ropes are more resistant to the effects of drum crushing than 19x7 due to the compacted strands and smoothness of the rope surface.

With 18 strands of 19 wires in all sizes, Python® Compac 18 remains extremely flexible and easy to handle.