Why is this not the rage?

[MedicineMan]

Set up with Opies soft shackle last night---INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!
so maybe I'm missing all the enthusiasm about this method on the forum and am just overlooking everyone screaming about how utterly cool it is.
My tree huggers either have a sewn loop on each end or a sewn loop and a triangle (via Warbonnet)...go around tree and through the loop, other loop gets the soft shackle AND the end of the woopie sling. Done. No Marlin Spike Hitch to tie, no toggle to find or carry.
Is everyone aware of the simplicity of this and I'm just not reading every word of every thread?

[kayak karl]

Set up with Opies soft shackle last night---INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!
so maybe I'm missing all the enthusiasm about this method on the forum and am just overlooking everyone screaming about how utterly cool it is.
My tree huggers either have a sewn loop on each end or a sewn loop and a triangle (via Warbonnet)...go around tree and through the loop, other loop gets the soft shackle AND the end of the woopie sling. Done. No Marlin Spike Hitch to tie, no toggle to find or carry.
Is everyone aware of the simplicity of this and I'm just not reading every word of every thread?

i made my sling going through the triangle. (the adjustable loop) dutch clips on the other end

for my next, i want these sown in to the end of a sling (just half of it per sling)


http://arrowheadequipment.webs.com/a...s/show/1323980

[Sweeper]

Set up with Opies soft shackle last night---INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!
so maybe I'm missing all the enthusiasm about this method on the forum and am just overlooking everyone screaming about how utterly cool it is.
My tree huggers either have a sewn loop on each end or a sewn loop and a triangle (via Warbonnet)...go around tree and through the loop, other loop gets the soft shackle AND the end of the woopie sling. Done. No Marlin Spike Hitch to tie, no toggle to find or carry.
Is everyone aware of the simplicity of this and I'm just not reading every word of every thread?

Cool - looks like the ant in the picture is checking it out as well!

[BillyBob58]

Set up with Opies soft shackle last night---INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!
so maybe I'm missing all the enthusiasm about this method on the forum and am just overlooking everyone screaming about how utterly cool it is.
My tree huggers either have a sewn loop on each end or a sewn loop and a triangle (via Warbonnet)...go around tree and through the loop, other loop gets the soft shackle AND the end of the woopie sling. Done. No Marlin Spike Hitch to tie, no toggle to find or carry.
Is everyone aware of the simplicity of this and I'm just not reading every word of every thread?

No, I am not aware. I have seen some thread but had not read them yet. Just now I found 3 threads by Opie showing how to make them, but at least one said utility not for body weight?

I guess I don't know how these work, yet.

[oldgringo]

No, I am not aware. I have seen some thread but had not read them yet. Just now I found 3 threads by Opie showing how to make them, but at least one said utility not for body weight?

I guess I don't know how these work, yet.

Opie has hung on them...did some destructive testing with a John Deere, too.

[GrizzlyAdams]

so I like these things, like making them, they have their place. But I have found them devilish hard to open when they are under load. I tried one for a while as a means of having a quick on/off with a ridgeline, but when the ridgeline has a little tension on it, it definitely was not a convenience.

[opie]

so I like these things, like making them, they have their place. But I have found them devilish hard to open when they are under load. I tried one for a while as a means of having a quick on/off with a ridgeline, but when the ridgeline has a little tension on it, it definitely was not a convenience.

It would probably be difficult to disengage a biner under tension too.

[GrizzlyAdams]

It would probably be difficult to disengage a biner under tension too.

no, with a biner the gate is not under tension. I can open it with my thumb and then slide the biner off. The clinch loop is like the gate here.

[mbiraman]

Got the TL with the SS's and Knot Bone a while a go,,,very cool.

[pizza]

I guess I don't know how these work, yet.

Me neither. What's the purpose of the knotted loop? Does it come undone easily or something?