What's the best way to store bullwhips?

Chamorro · Post by **Chamorro** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 11:56 pm

I have mine hanging from wooden pegs by their wristloops but most drag on the floor. Is it okay to hang them coiled? It would be neater looking.

Cooler King · Post by **Cooler King** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 12:32 am

I leave mine coiled on my belt haging on my hat tree. It never hurt it before. I just take it and streatch it every once and a while, nothing wrong with keeping it coiled IMHO. Had my whip for 4 years never gave me a problem.

Sergei · Post by **Sergei** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:52 am

Chamorro wrote:I have mine hanging from wooden pegs by their wristloops but most drag on the floor. Is it okay to hang them coiled? It would be neater looking.

This is my .02. If you know that you are not going to use them for awhile, then I would hang the whips off of their wrist loops on a wooden peg. I figure that the whip under long term storage shouldn't be coiled, but left in a relaxed state, nice and straight. Just make sure that they are in an environment where it is not totally dark and no varmits can get to them.

But if you use your whips regularly, then leaving them coiled is quite all right.

-S

Frank Wolf · Post by **Frank Wolf** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:11 am

Any idea how to hang an aussie style 12 footer? The total length is somewhere around 15 feet and I don't have a high enough place for it?

I currently keep my whips losely coiled on a hat shelf.

Whiper Jones · Post by **Whiper Jones** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:45 am

Hooks to the wall and store it horizontally...?

Frank Wolf · Post by **Frank Wolf** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:07 am

That could do the trick if the hooks won't cause dents? I actually found a good place next to the stairway but I don't trust my cat to leave it alone.

One thing I have been planning is to make a narrow shelf up the wall, high enough to keep the whips safe from my dogs and my kid but it still doesn't solve the problem with the cat.

On the other hand, my whips are used at least once a week so keeping them coiled won't do much harm.

Indiana Joe · Post by **Indiana Joe** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 9:20 pm

Y'all may want to check this out too----

http://www.indygear.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1316

I.J.

Frank Wolf · Post by **Frank Wolf** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:28 am

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up...

Whipcrack · Post by **Whipcrack** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 9:08 am

Have you seen a picture of Mark Allen's "wall of whips"? He hangs his. If it is good enough for Mark Allen it's good enough for me.

Hang it babby!

Bill Walton

Sergei · Post by **Sergei** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 11:53 am

Just to clarify, Mark Allen's "Wall of Whips" Bill. Most of those whips are for his museum. In other words, he collects noteworthy whips and they are there for display. They are not there to be cracked. Most of those whips are several decades old.

All I am saying is that it is more ideal to store your whips all laid out, uncoilded. The next ideal would be to hang them "loosely" coiled. The worst would be to hang them very tightly coiled.

-S

Whipcrack · Post by **Whipcrack** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 5:14 pm

I agree Sergei, tightly coiled is always bad. However, if I tell my wife I now have to store my whips laid out she will tell me to store them around my neck.

That would be very bad!

Thanks Sergei, any news on the whips for Indy IV? Are we looking at next year?

Bill Walton

Frank Wolf · Post by **Frank Wolf** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 5:20 pm

Whipcrack wrote:I agree Sergei, tightly coiled is always bad. However, if I tell my wife I now have to store my whips laid out she will tell me to store them around my neck.

That would be very bad!

At least they would be safe from varmints?

What's the best way to store bullwhips?

What's the best way to store bullwhips?

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