I had my webbing fail on my ring buckle suspension system that I wanted to share and see if anyone else is seeing the same thing. I was using the smaller of the 2 Ed Speer webbing. I should add too that I probibly have 200-ish hangs on this webbing. I also was exceeding the weight limit by probibly 100 lbs, it was ok the first couple times.
The webbing was starting to look worn and this was going to be the last trip with it anyways. I think that most of my hangs are within the same couple feet on both ends of the hammock. The webbing was starting to show a lot of signs of wear from the ring buckles.
My thoughts are that the ring buckles caused a lot of wear to the webbing. I think given a few more hangs they would have failed anyways.
Is anyone else seeing damage to the webbing? Any thoughts on decreasing the damage to the webbing? I am thinking that this is going to be a tradeoff with this system.
As for the weekend luckily we were close to the car and I was able to hike back in the morning and get some extra webbing I had.
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