Whoopie sling and biner confusion
When you can larks head the whoopie to the channel or whip lash the whoopie to the hammock why do people add a continuous loop and biner the whoopies?
Seems like adding complexity and weight for no reason, am I missing something? This also includes dutch hooks.
I like the dutch buckle that makes loads of sense to me and I bought them but I'm just trying to make sure there isn't some esoteric reason for the loop instead of the larks.
Putting backup cord to use
I had at one time some worry about 2.5mm Amsteel running in the channel. It seemed narrow. I was making soft shackles, which plump up the line, of course. So one hammock has soft shackles threaded through the channels. A waste of 4 feet of line, I suppose. Or, a pair of soft shackles I can retrieve for use elsewhere for some reason, some time.
On another hammock I threaded 2 foot continuous utility loops through the channels. Or doubled them over themselves twice until they were six inches long. So, the load is spread across four legs. And again, I can redo them if I my whoopie slings are too short, or if I lose one.
No strong feeling on this, but I'm using the spare shackles and loops I should otherwise be carrying anyway. I can always larks head directly.