Ka-Boom! Tubular webbing is Strong but slippery!

I sat on the deck this afternoon in the sun with my favorite home-brew (Toad Spit) and proceeded to riped out the 4-ROWS of stitches in my Claytor JH ("new model" - stitched together double-bottom*) actually there's a fifth row inside! Whew!

Three beers later I had a 30" opening! (woohoo!) After I was sober:cool: and some careful sewing with the ole Singer I was ready to test out my now double layered JH with the Big Agnes mattress now inserted "between the sheets" so to speak. WOW! it was way comfortable and so comfy I fell asleep.:D

Then came the KA-BOOM! :eek: Holy guano Batman!:mad:
I was abruptly deposited on the pine needle duff ...but BA saved the day (and my butt) and luckily survived the impact!! Have to say tubular webbing is nice stuff and very strong as I had chosen it for the hanging suspension OEM replacement but I'd forgotten it's also very dang slippery! The square knot SLIPPED! Oops! ...not nice as I was just about to catch that big brown in my dream!

So I dugged through my climbing gear bag and found some old chocks with spector(?) cord? Anyway I know this stuff is stronger than my chain I use on the tractor to pull the car out of the snow bank with. So with a couple of prusik knots I was back to snoozing in peace!

SO here's the pics:

It's time to go camping this weekend and swing amongst the trees in comfort and warmth!

*FYI - this Claytor JH ("new model" - stitched together double-bottom) was only an experiment of Tom's it's no longer being produced. They now come standard as double bottoms just like before.

square knots or reef knots as they also called should never be used for hanging, They upset very easily into half hitches which will slide here there and everywhere. There are plenty of knots that will work much better and hold much stronger that a square knot for the purposes of hanging something. Square knots are fine for bundling up sail fabric on a yard arm.. (reefing the sail) but are better ones for hanging suspensions.

I was testing my bridge hammock on the backyard stand. Tied a figure 8 on a bight (love that knot) in the suspension rope and then ran the webbing through the loop and tied a sheet bend. That thing wasn't going anywhere. (Course the fabric started to rip where I had had to take stitches out before cause I baloxed the structural seam. hehehe) But the knots held..... YEA!!!

I've had some ka-booms from slippery stuff too. Looking at your photos, I would have tried a water knot http://www.animatedknots.com/waterkn...=....&Website= . But you never know until you try.:)

I like how the words "Not For Climbing" are clearly visible on the biner. Do you feel safe using that biner? I've had those things (the "not for climbing" biners) stretch on me - haven't had one fail, but I don't trust them anymore.

Cool mod - way to make lemonade! :D

Hope you didn't scare P&R
Looks like some fine stichin, glad you waited for the toad spit to wear a bit.
Got to try the big agnes in the hammock trick
73
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