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Excellent! Thanks all for the input. I'll start giving it a try. If it works most of the time, it should be a good time and effort saver.

OK, guys, until I go to the trouble of replacing HH spectra with Speer type webbing, I just rememebered a question I have always had about the HH style knot and tree huggers, and which I have not yet...

Thanks for all the helpful info, HE and FF!
Bill

Thanks for the welcome. I also much prefer the straps to the ropes and tree huggers. Can you tell me exactly how you replaced the ropes, or refer me to a link with the info? Cutting those ropes off...

What about the ropes? Somebody on one of the BGT reviews complained about the "memory" in the ropes. The ropes would stretch, but then when he got out to tighten, the rope would return to the same...