This has been brought before but it doesn't hurt to bring it up again.
Use Carabiners that are rated for climbing.
My wife and I were hanging in the back yard and I used a non climbing rated biner to secure the loop end of the tree strap back to its self once it was wrapped around the tree (just moved some of my gear and could not find the good stuff). Figured this would put the least amount of stress on the biner. As the wife only weights about 160 I figured it would be ok for her to test out her new hammock for a few minutes until I could locate some extra Dutch Clips. Told the wife before hand so we set up the hammock real low to the ground in case something did happen.
The wife hung in her hammock for about 30 minutes. When we took down her hammock we found that the biner had bent way out shape. The tree straps were still attached but there is no telling how long it would continue to hold in its current condition. Of course the biner used on the other tree worked just fine.
Just glad we were doing this under controlled conditions.
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