Originally Posted by
Roe Ring
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong here:
If the load on your hammock is fixed, i.e. your body weight, then without a ridgeline, all of the load is transfered to you whoopie sling through the soft shackle. If you add a ridgeline, then the load is divided between the whoopie sling and the ridgeline, but the sum of the load will remain the same. The load is the same but it is distributed differently. In this situation, the force transfered from your continuous loop onto your shackle will remain the same because that is the load applied but the ridgeline and the whoopie sling are sharing that load and are putting less strain on the shackle at their connecting points.
In short, it shouldnt affect the shackle at all.
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