How do you folks pull your amsteel taut? Im looking to find a knot, splice, tool, buckle, what have you, that makes it so I can pull a lot of tension into a line of amsteel and then easily loosen it after being unloaded. Why? Well for several reasons.
Hammock related, im looking for a way to tie a very taut SLS system to minimize sag over long distance runs.
Non Hammock related. I use amsteel running from a large cedar tree to a hook attached to my house that I then run loops of amsteel down to branches of my fruit trees to keep them from breaking when loaded with fruit.
Both of these scenarios I have several hundred pounds hanging from the a line that runs a good distance (30 feet or more) thus getting it tight is very important. Normally in a case like this I would use a couple of truckers hitches to give myself a mechanical advantage, but I find that truckers hitches like to slip and come un done. I've tried Nite ize figure 9's but I can never get it tight enough with one of those, and I dont like the fact that it slowly damages the rope.
Any ideas?
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