Whos climbing on Velocity?

[BostonBull]

I just picked up a hank of Velocity. It feels nice. I have footlocked on it before and was pleased. How does it act with fiction hitches when climbing? Does a 3/8" line grab on the velocity OK as a friction hitch?

 

[(WLL)]

I just picked up a hank of Velocity. It feels nice. I have footlocked on it before and was pleased. How does it act with fiction hitches when climbing? Does a 3/8" line grab on the velocity OK as a friction hitch?

this is my favorite climbing line like more than blaze and pi work's fine with 3/8 but is great with 5/16 :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[JEff B]

BostonBull.... you sold me the velocity on saturday and have climbed on it 3 times, and i love it! Definatly my new favorite line. Awesome for secured footlocking. i also used DRT with a blakes and it works great. Split tail with an eye and eye 10mm tenex was even better

JEff B

 

[BostonBull]

BostonBull.... you sold me the velocity on saturday and have climbed on it 3 times, and i love it! Definatly my new favorite line. Awesome for secured footlocking. i also used DRT with a blakes and it works great. Split tail with an eye and eye 10mm tenex was even better

JEff B

This is the reason I go mine. I left my personal line in that tree over the weekend and it got run over and beat up yesterday by a backhoe. I was going to go with a XTC or Arbormaster line and saw that we got in a hunk of Velocity in the new orange/red color.

Glad to see you signed up on the forum. Keep in touch.....are you goin to the MAA meeting this month?

 

[JEff B]

im gunna try to make it .... its been hard to tear myself away from college life

 

[jmack]

I just picked up a hank of Velocity. It feels nice. I have footlocked on it before and was pleased. How does it act with fiction hitches when climbing? Does a 3/8" line grab on the velocity OK as a friction hitch?

it sucks for a taughtline and way too sticky for a blakes if i footlocked for competition i would buy it but for tree work no way

 

[winchman]

1/2' split tail

i use the velocity with a 1/2" split-tail. it works like a charm, for tree work definitely. when i used smaller diameter split-tails, they cinched up and made the knot impossible to move. after a couple of times on the half inch, however, i found a new, favorite setup. hauling that velocity up 100' feels a LOT better than hauling up 100' of 1/2" at the end of the day.
my.02

 

[jazak]

I'll be purchasing some it soon; hear nothing but good about it. Right now I'm using NE High-Vee

 

[JEff B]

winch,
what friction hitch are you tying with the 1/2" split tail??? blakes? i have used traditional style with a blakes and it works great against itself... also i have noticed that when used in natural crotch grit and bark get imbedded into the line pretty good... my opinion friction devices are best for this line

 

[MrRecurve]

I love my velocity. So much nicer in the hand and lighter to redirect and carry than 16 braid. I use a cambium saver whenever possible with it.
Does anyone know if the fly 11mm has less stretch than the velocity?

 

[OTG BOSTON]

I love my velocity. So much nicer in the hand and lighter to redirect and carry than 16 braid. I use a cambium saver whenever possible with it.
Does anyone know if the fly 11mm has less stretch than the velocity?

I don't know how it compares, but the fly is awesome.

 

[JEff B]

how does the fly hold up running through natural crotch?

 

[winchman]

blakes hitch on velocity...

jeff b.,
you guessed it, i use the blakes hitch, and it works like a charm. rarely, if ever, does it cinch up at all. i'm about to get out there and cable a tree with that very system today. i will note anything interesting to this thread and maybe reply later. okay!

 

[Jim1NZ]

Velocity -

Great for footlocking/access lines.

The sticky coting does ware off with time.

OK to climb on, light, smooth and fast through prussic, tends slack well once sticky cote has warn off.

I find it harder on my hands when climbing on it all day and it chews prussics out fast.

 

[Tree Machine]

Does anyone know if the fly 11mm has less stretch than the velocity?

Fly is quite a bit more stretchy than velocity. Both are great ropes.

 

[(WLL)]

the fly can fly outa here? amen

:yoyo: :yoyo: the fly is crap and splices like chit in my opp velocity is 100x better with less strech:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I like Velosity better too. The low streach is great on long climbs.

It also seems to have a little more "tack" in the cover allowing an easier footclock.

Ties very well despite the extra stiffness.

 

[JonnyHart]

I use 5/16" ultratech with icicle hitch, and it responds very nicely.
The hank of velocity I am climbing on was my first 7/16" line, and I thought it would fall apart from regular use in a natural crotch, but been using it day after day since June, and it won't need to be replaced any time soon. When it does though, it will be replaced with another velocity. Excellent climbing line.

 

[JEff B]

i've also been useing my velocity natural crotch and it is holding up fine. have trouble finding a good eye and eye hitch for it. i am using Tenex with a VT and it binds up sometimes. i am getting a bee line soon but i have heard mixed opinions about it. have you tried bee line vs ultra tech?

 

[BostonBull]

i've also been useing my velocity natural crotch and it is holding up fine. have trouble finding a good eye and eye hitch for it. i am using Tenex with a VT and it binds up sometimes. i am getting a bee line soon but i have heard mixed opinions about it. have you tried bee line vs ultra tech?

I am using a sailing line that NickfromWI spliced up for me. I have also used my vectarn hitch with this rope. Both are more "grabby" bt I get by. On my Vectran rope I had to use on less col in my hitch than normal. try altering your VT and see how it responds.

Contact Nick and have him splice you up something nice. Never mind that store bought crap, handsplices are the way to go.