An old idea dug up.

[Hammonkey]

Hey HF, I was digging through this archived thread:

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...p/t-67295.html

Using a single piece of amsteel with a locked brummel girth hitched to the loop of your tree hugger, the suspension would connect to the hammock with a continuous loop hanging on a marlinspike/toggle tied to the single line of amsteel.

In the thread rather than using the marlinspike, they drilled a hole through a wood dowel and tied half hitches on it. Is there a reason why the marlinspike/toggle wasn't working? Are the radii too tight to maintain integrity of the amsteel? I dont see why it's so different than the angles used in narcabiners. It seems as though this idea was abandoned, and Im not quite sure the reason.

[goobie]

Failure most likely. Either it was the toggle breaking, the half hitch coming off the toggle, or the Amsteel due to compression.

[Hammonkey]

well I never saw any results of having the amsteel fail. Mostly toggle and half hitches coming off... but if you tied off the toggle with a marlin spike it solves those problems and leaves only the possibility of amsteel failing which Im doubtful of as I dont see much difference in stress applied to a soft shackle... but experience trumps theory.