Originally Posted by
Canadian_Zuk
Synthetic rope is much much safer to use and just better all around. I use it on my ATVs and my rock crawlers. It's light, the whole spool can be held in one hand so it can be tossed across a bog or whatever. It's soft and does not have sharp broken wires to punchure your hands like cable does. As you touched on, the BIGGEST benefit is synthetic line has zero stretch, if it does break under full load it simply drops to the ground with no stored energy. Steel cable is nasty when it lets go or a hook comes loose.