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I dont know if this is already out there or anything but i was playing around tonight with some recently discarded grandtrunk suspension/ultimate truck bed tiedown rope and realized that you dont necessarily need amsteel to make a nacrabiner/soft shackle style suspension connector. not everyone has access to those resources at all times and well, this is really easy to do. its almost as easy as the nacrabiner- Id say about 10% more fiddle factor. So here goes:
started with about 22" of grand trunk's finest
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tie an overhand knot right in the middle. leave it nice and loose, we're talking a perfect circle here.
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bring the legs alongside each other
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make another over hand knot with the legs. crank this one down hard
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feed leg knot through middle overhand loop
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tighten the loop down behind knot.
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i crank on it with the butterfly-stretch armstong technique; open it up like a butterfly, grasp the loops with your fingers or two screwdrivers if you dont have the metal, like myself, and really give it some grunt
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all set up
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hangin from it now
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as it type this, this makeshift nacrabiner from normally tossed rope is suspending me for the night. i have not tested this before
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better believe my fingers are crossed
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We will see what the night holds for this test. For scientific reference im weighing in at 220lbs. test night 1 underway
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kalibiner???