I asked about stretch and the answer (twice) was there is NONE. Main thing is to wind the rope on under tension the first time to avoid the binding. I'll pull it all back off and rewind with the cable hooked to something to get it on under tension. Uncle Willie uses this same type cable and I got it when he posted it was good stuff!Thing is when you want/need it you want it to work right and have to fight stretch, bound up rope, etc.etc. Keep that steel cable around as you may want it back on there some day.