Hey there looking for some input, and making sure I'm headed down the right track.
I'm currently hanging in a HH exped asym zip. My current main use is for work, which can either be setup in a basecamp sort of style for up to a week, or traveling site to site. In the latter case, I need to either set up very quickly so I can assist my clients, or I end up setting up after dark, which means it needs to be dead simple, and reliable.
So I need something that is a set and leave, won't require adjustments once hung, but also is light and fast. Fast most of all. I also Find that I'm hanging under some really big trees, so the stock straps are not handling it, I've made some different extenders and other sorts of things, but ended up with nylon by accident so I'm re-starting that project.
I've ordered some webbing and g-clips from Simon, I plan to make two 3 meter straps which should give me some good tree diameter options, plus some extra for those really long hangs (gum trees suck, so sometimes I have to make due with poor tree placement to avoid them, I also loose out to the ground sleepers sometimes, and the best spot is also aways the flattest somehow) My thought at the moment is the stitch a loop with a descender ring into one end of each strap, and use that as a wear point for the stock rope. I've been using a munter hitch as my tension setting knot and its been working very well, but I don't want to do that straight through the webbing.
Ideally that should keep everything contained, I'll loose the weight of the biners I've been using (not much, they are the little metolius ones) but trade that for longer straps. At this point I think I'll hold off on doing any sort of conversion on the rope, as it doesn't seem to provide any advantage for what I'm doing.
Any thoughts? am I way off base? is there a severe wear point in the system that I'm missing? Would I get even more advantage by swapping to a full webbing system? and are the g-clips/adutchables useful in that mode?
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