LordFarkwad
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You rank this over Calamine, swing?
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You rank this over Calamine, swing?
Drumroll please!!!!!!
There it is folks. Swings seal of approval. Marlow better crank up the Vega making machine!!!!
The shit comes in green too. Will let wesspur know we need green too. Keep ya posted.
Little update on the Marlow Vega. This stuff milks like a fucking sow cow. Used it on a job yesterday and it performed beautifully but the cover started bunching/bagging up a little towards the end of the day. No biggie I thought. This morning I hooked up one end to the front porch and milked the whole line with a prussic. First pass was a double run and it milked almost 9 ft, and nearly a foot on the second pass which was a single run. That almost 10 feet on a 330 ft rope. The cover and the core appear to have balanced out and it is now feeling really nice. I will say that so far the rope absolutely kills it on the Wrench, HH2, and a HC setup. It is also wonderful on the Runner, but like most ropes it flattens out quit a bit. Just the nature of the beast I guess. Those interested in this rope might want to wait and I will give a further report after I have beat the shit out of it for a week.
Well that didn't take long. I thought this rope had settled down a little yesterday, but boy was I wrong. A little Fir removal this morning on the HH and this rope continues to bag up and milk like a mofo. I have spent hours since receiving this rope on Thursday milking this shit and also making multiple long steady ascents and descent trying to get rope to settle in, but no go. Over 3 feet this morning for a total of over 14 ft, and I can tell its not even close to being done. Either this rope has some serious issues or I got a bad batch? Either way I don't have the time to wait around and see if is ever gonna settle down. As such I cannot in good conscience recommend this rope at this point, and I am gonna see about getting my $ back.
Picture of the bagginess and milking I am still experiencing after fucking hours of manual milking and multiple climbs. Top portion is above prussic and bottom portion is bellow prussic. 11.7mm mericulously turns into 5/8" right before your eye! Good luck climbing on that?
Picture of the bagginess and milking I am still experiencing after fucking hours of manual milking and multiple climbs. Top portion is above prussic and bottom portion is bellow prussic. 11.7mm mericulously turns into 5/8" right before your eye! Good luck climbing on that?
LordFarkwad
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JeffGu
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Wow. I milked about 18" on a 200' hank of doublebraid once... it milked about another 6" a couple weeks later. I then sealed up the non-terminated end and never had any more issues with it. So, a couple feet wouldn't really surprise me on a 330' hank... but 14 feet? That's crazy.
Yea, 14 ft is a whole lot of milking but what worries me is that it isn't showing signs of slowing down and the bagginess when climbing is fucking killing me.
JeffGu
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Ouch. You don't have terminations on your SRT ropes do you? Seems I saw you post something to that effect. If so, maybe it would help to do one more milking... first in one direction, then milk it the other direction. Then melt the ends and shrink tube them. Maybe even stitch the cover/core together for about 2" first.
It's at least worth a try, at this point.
It's at least worth a try, at this point.
JeffGu
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You could also milk from the center of the rope, toward each end, then seal/stitch the ends. I have a feeling this is the cover and core moving in opposite directions from each other, not just one elongating more than the other.
It's worth a try. I did this with a 16-strand, once... then cut all the excess off and spliced the ends. I still have the rope (although I use it for a rigging line, now) and it hasn't milked any more or bagged up at all.
It's worth a try. I did this with a 16-strand, once... then cut all the excess off and spliced the ends. I still have the rope (although I use it for a rigging line, now) and it hasn't milked any more or bagged up at all.
When I started to milk this rope I did start from the middle. Milked it a few times with that method, then milked from one end to the other a few times. No difference as far as I can tell. I fucking hate finicky gear and this rope is really pissin me off.
JeffGu
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Well, you tried... time to make a phone call. Hopefully, they will refund your money or replace it with something you'll like. That's really a bummer.
Oh shite....mine has totally got hard and settled down but it is only 150'. Still 150 because the core is unchanged. It works mint with runner and wrench. Keep milking it is worth it. You are only getting cover and core to align perfectly. First rope since velocity that this has happened to me. And I have owned so much rope.
RBJtree
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Thats a lot of milk. I'd be pissed too! Dissapointing, seemed like it would be such a great rope.
