After reading Baka Dasai's excellent post the other day about his no hardware CRL I got to thinking....hmmmm. What I came up with is just a partial no hardware CRL.....this may have already been done. I still use micro-biners w/ prusiks to attach the tarp to the CRL. In the past I'd use a micro-biner on one end of the CRL... BTW, I use 7/64 amsteel, so the micro-biner goes around the tree and clips on to the amsteel. The other end I'd take a half turn around the tree, pull tight and then complete the round turn and finish up with 2 half hitches, the last being slippery.
Well now here is what I'm gonna do..... two CL's prusiked to both ends... now for the pictures.
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You get a little mechanical advantage when you pass the bitter-end thru the CL and pull against it . If you want to prevent your whoopies or what ever you use to suspend your hammock from rubbing against your CRL, slide the prusik further from the tree, giving you a nice open Vee. Personally I don't worry about that....
Anyway, this may be of some use to you......as for me, I'll be reducing the weight of my pack by one micro-biner!
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Originally Posted by Winnie
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