After a day that started at 4 AM, I crawled into my hammock around 10 PM for some much-needed sleep, and had just gotten everything tucked in.
I heard a noise behind me much like a pistol shot, and suddenly I was laying on the ground. Ardent hammock innovator that I am, my first act after making sure that all my limbs still worked was to reach over my head and pull the suspension line in to see what had failed. I reeled in an intact D-Ring. Then I got up, hauled the cot out of the car, and went back to bed.
I was using 1" tie down straps from Harbor Freight, and had added a D-Ring to one end as a buffer between the Amsteel Blue suspension lines and the straps. I had looped the strap through the ring and created a sewn eye. In daylight, it was obvious that the stitching failed, probably through choice of the wrong thread.
What thread would be best for sewing eyes in polyester strapping?
As an alternative, would a bowline serve just as well to retain the D-Ring?
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