I have been using whoopie slings, but I just got a HH and have been using the included spectra cord. I am not a knot know-it-all (say that five times fast) but I was wondering if I could hang using a prusik knot? I would probably back it up with a slippery hitch, but is this a good idea, or a good way to crack my head on the rock below me?
Follow up: While I have a few ideas a brewin, does anyone have any genius ways to attach the system to?
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
Since the prussic is a climbing hitch, you should be able to hang from it. The line is important. Other climbing hitches which might work better though are the Distel hitch, or Blake's hitch.
I think a prussik knot may slip too much on spectra... But I'm by no means an expert, so listen to them \/.
Or a Schwabish hitch...which kept me on the rope 45' up a tree yesterday.Originally Posted by DuctTape
As DuctTape said, "the line is important". With friction hitches some combinations work well and others don't.
Have fun experimenting. While experimenting with a well dressed friction hitch, the worst I would expect would be a fairly gentle ride to the ground.
Kinda what I thought. Thanks for the help guys
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
Word of caution regarding prussics on dyneema braided cord. You are loading mostly the sheath and not the core and when I tried to hang my punch bag on the pulley and hold the rope with a prussics, the outer "jacket" teared off and the smooth dyneema fibers pulled out basically stripping the cord of it's skin.
(I was playing with this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dyneema-2m...item3a83dbe916).
A Prusik would not hold for me but a Klemheist did.
+1
I've been hanging from klemheists on my indoor pipe stand for 10 months. They haven't budged.
would it be possible to use a Distel Hitch on amsteel to hang your hammock?
A quick test says not really. I hung a piece of 7/64" Amsteel Blue vertically, used a 7/64" dogbone to tie the distel hitch, clipped in a biner with a foot loop attached and attempted to put my weight on it. No go, it slipped quite easily.
I don't know if a 7/64" hitch on 1/8' amsteel would hold or not but when I moved the distel hitch up onto the bury section of the vertical rope's eye splice where it had twice the thickness, the hitch held my weight (185 lbs.). It was difficult to break the hitch loose and is not something I would want to use at all.
Whoopie slings and UCRs work too well for hammock suspensions to bother with a friction hitch on amsteel which has a very low coefficient of friction and a low melting point.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks