I have an 11-ft. Dutch netless hammock that I use with the whoopie hook suspension and tree huggers. Works great, but one occasional annoyance is when the hugger is too long when wrapped around the tree once, but too short to wrap around twice. The result, when wrapped once, is that the extra hugger length adds to the minimum adjustable distance inherent in whoopie slings. Depending on the distance to the other tree, this may or may not be a problem. I see two possible solutions:
1) Attach the hammock directly to any point on the hugger with a marlinspike hitch, essentially bypassing the whoopie sling & hook. I can make this work, but it takes a while, partly because I am sufficiently bad with knots that no matter how many times I practice at home, to do it in the field I have to get out my hand-drawn diagram. Also, it gives up the quick adjustability of the whoopies.
2) It looks like the adutchable clip may be the answer by essentially making the tree strap length adjustable. I have two questions:
2.1: On dutch's website, it states that "this works with tree straps but not huggers. There must be one open end".
Why is this? is the slot in the adutchable too narrow to feed through the loop on the end of a hugger? I have no objection to getting some straps, but that would make the adutchable clip a necessity (i.e., lose them in the field and I have a problem).
2.2: In the description of kevlar straps, it is stated "Kevlar straps have not tested well with Cinch Buckles". Would a kevlar strap work well with an adutchable clip?
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