I too started off with whoopies on both ends — with strap/MSH/toggle and Dutch biner between whoopie fixed eye and hammock CL — thinking they were all necessary bits, but very quickly realized there was a whole bunch of stuff that could be bypassed... mainly because I was ticked about having to bypass a lot of perfect hanging spots due to the suspension being too darned long. And my inner gram weenie kept nagging me relentlessly.
There was a lot of evolution between then and now. This iteration of the (current!) perfect UL suspension offers 1) wider straps/huggers where desired/required, 2) simplicity of J-bend/Becket, 3) micro-adjustability to easily obtain that last Nth degree of perfection in hammock height, and 4) maintains a very good minimum length for closely spaced trees. Of course, the straps are negotiable as far as type, length and material if you want to go a bit lighter still.
I also made up some much smaller CLs after it dawned upon me that most CLs supplied by hammock makers are much longer than necessary... two of these short ones pictured below will allow for more than an additional foot of clearance in a tight setup... after which the big problem becomes the tarp fitting!
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