HELP! Did something really stupid

[Singingcrowsings]

Hi,

While laying in my Mayan, I suddenly decided to compare the feel between my Mayan and my Freebird, so I untie the Mayan and just looped the whoopies of my Freebird over the eyehooks. It would have worked fine, and technically did, except that one of the eyehooks was turned so that the slit on it was facing up. So when I went to sit in the hammock, there was a physical clunk down, and now the whoopie is slung through the eyehook, and I can't get it out. I took the eye hook out of the wall, and have tried gently pushing it through, pulling on it, both, but the slit is too thin.

Any suggestions that don't include cutting it???


EDIT: Just so people don't waste their time, Ratdog's suggestion of one thread at a time worked.

[Ratdog]

Gently unwind the amsteel and try getting it through 1 strand at a time and then rewind it??

[Singingcrowsings]

That sounds like it might work... I'll try it. Thank you!!!

[The Old Boot]

Instead of trying to 'unwind' it, try flattening it. Push it in from both ends towards the middle and you'll see that you can flatten it out of it's circular position. It might take two people, one holding the eye hook and one working the amsteel.

It's still going to be difficult to get out of there. It took the weight of your body in the hammock to get it into the slot, it's not going to come out easy.

[Singingcrowsings]

It worked! Now I have to get it wound again. That part seems like it might be a lot more work.

Thanks again Ratdog!!!

[nothermark]

Put the eyebolt in a vise and spring the eye either apart or sideways. ;-)

[Singingcrowsings]

Instead of trying to 'unwind' it, try flattening it. Push it in from both ends towards the middle and you'll see that you can flatten it out of it's circular position. It might take two people, one holding the eye hook and one working the amsteel.

It's still going to be difficult to get out of there. It took the weight of your body in the hammock to get it into the slot, it's not going to come out easy.

I, in fact was trying to flatten it before, but that slit is way too thin. It was just wide enough to get one thread through without ripping it. I thought about trying to reverse what I did to, to get that pressure it needed, but with the angle of the slit, that didn't prove to be easy either.

Thank you for your consideration Old boot!

[Singingcrowsings]

Put the eyebolt in a vise and spring the eye either apart or sideways. ;-)

Had I a vise, this probably would have worked. Thanks!

[Singingcrowsings]

Won't be doing that again!!! Ha ha!

[Singingcrowsings]

It's all good now. It would take a very trained eye to see the Whhoopie sling was ever unwound.

I'm very relived. Camping in a couple weeks from now would have proved very challenging to say the least.