Quote Originally Posted by BaloO View Post
My idea was to buy one of these, cut it in two pieces and put the UCR through it... this has to take a load of the bark, what you think?
I don't think it would help all that much. What straps do is distribute the force across the width of the strap, resulting in less pressure per square cm than a rope would cause. Running a rope through a strap would not redistribute the force very much at all, with most of it still concentrated along the centerline of the rope. (IMHO)