Custom Rope tow ropes
a division of Williams MFG. Inc.

Due to recent growth, Custom Rope tow rope is now
looking for
NEW DISTRIBUTORS!!
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We call it Custom Rope because we have the knowledge and ability to make a tow
rope to meet your individual needs.  We take pride in being able to serve you and
give you the best tow rope the market has to offer, concerning safety, braiding
techniques, and warranty.

Custom Rope tow ropes are manufactured by Williams Mfg., Inc.  S.G. "Buddy"
Williams is the original designer of this type of tow rope.  Other companies have
attempted to duplicate our rope, and have even tried to copy our marketing
program.  Most of these people have been former associates of "Buddy" Williams.

We look from day to day for ways to improve our tow ropes and feel we have
developed and perfected Custom Rope to be the best tow rope on the market.  Look
for these qualities only found in Custom Rope.
- Safer than Nylon, Cable or Chains!
In the past, people have used nylon, different types of poly, cable, and chain but none of these were
originally designed for towing. A few years ago we recognized the demand for tow ropes and were
aware of the danger and the fear that had been established by other rope products.  "Custom Rope" is
designed for the sole purpose of pulling.  It is a safer rope and one that is more durable and resistant to
the many different elements that a farmer, a man in the oil field, or in construction would be exposed
to.  Items such as weather, battery acid, diesel fuel, oil, gasoline, hydraulic fluid, fertilizer, (all of which
deteriorate the nylon) WILL NOT harm our polypropylene ropes.

Many companies try to compete with our prices and have copied our size structure.  When compared,
ours has been found to be the heavier and the stronger rope per labeled size and length.  (Other ropes
boast to be the same lengths, but when purchased and unrolled for use, they are most often found to
be 3 to 6 feet shorter than labeled.)  "Custom Rope" has more twine, and therefore has much more
strength.  It is more UV stable and does not deteriorate from sunlight.  We do not make a WHITE
polypropylene rope, so as not to be mistaken for nylon (which there is much fear of because of the
many accidents involving nylon ropes) and again, the white is not UV stable.

Our polypropylene "Custom Rope" only stretches 10 - 14% of its' length, where other ropes stretch 35 -
40% of its' length.  You must have a certain amount of stretch to obtain the use of kinetic energy;  but
you don't need so much that it is dangerous.  If the "Custom Rope" should break, it does not have the
dangerous recoil that nylon has.  The reason is the use of the bonded monofilament type twine has a
bonding that keeps the twine separated within the rope itself - this keeps the rope cooler under tension
and it won't have the friction problems that other ropes have.  This allows the rope to break down at
the weakest point of each individual strand, setting up a chain reaction and the rope will more or less
come apart and recoil below the hooking point.

- Superior Braiding Techniques
The way the loops are braided gives it approximately 20% more strength in the loops, because the rope
cannot cut itself in the braid.  In a normal "navy" braid, the strands go over and under each other and
will cut each other under tension.  Our new braid lays around each strand, and never crosses itself,
which gives it more strength under tension.












- Cut or Broken Tow Ropes
To determine a cut from a break, the bond or wrapping around the fibers will break down at 80% of the
stretch of the monofilament itself.  So if a wrap is intact to the end of the twine, it shows that it has
been cut before it stretched far enough to break.  Also, a cut rope will be fused together from the
friction caused by 1 or 2 thirds of the rope being cut, allowing then to slip along the remainder of the
rope which is still tight, throwing the whole load on this part of the rope, causing it to break.  A rope that
has been cut in this way will give the appearance of 1 long broken strand.  An actual broken rope will
not be fused together.

THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER OF THIS TYPE OF TOW ROPE









CUSTOM ROPE
a division of
WILLIAMS MFG., INC.
436 Campbell  PO Box 446
Kiowa, Kansas  67070-0446
(620) 825-4196  Fax (620) 825-4756
Toll Free:  1-800-451-6083
towropes@sctelcom.net
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