I've tied a prusik instead of splicing a loop, but the idea works. Been using it for a while, until I just switched them out for the speed hooks.
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...To-Make-an-UCR
I've tied a prusik instead of splicing a loop, but the idea works. Been using it for a while, until I just switched them out for the speed hooks.
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...To-Make-an-UCR
Just back to this thread after a bit. My daughter likes her hammock and line, and I've gone on to use it for suspensions for my gear hammock (out of 1.75mm zing it.)
I got a pair of speed hooks for Christmas and gave them a try, but between my personal weight and the angle at which the speed hook contacts my continuous loops, my continuous loops started to wear badly. Re-tasked the speed hooks for something that doesn't bear as much weight, and am just now getting ready to try this with a suspension in 7/64 amsteel. I doubt it will make that much weight difference over a whoopie sling, but between a favorite quote, "It is futile to use more to do what can be done with less" and removing the need for another dripline, gonna give it a try.
Actually that was one of my inspirations! The reason I didn't do it quite that way was that my daughter, to whom I gave this, has zero interest in knot tying, and so never learned to tie a prusik. I wanted to eliminate the possibility of the prusik coming undone while she was hanging without me.
Thanks for sharing your idea and I haven't seen it done that way before.
I might have to try a UCR again.
Just a heads up for everyone. Tieing the prusik, it always seemed to loosen up on me. Once I spliced the fixed eye, wrapped the prusik, then splice the constrictor, haven't had a problem since.
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