Some people seem a bit confused so I'm going to clear up a few things that I didn't communicate well in my original post.
1) The need for Dutch clips, a carabiner, or adutchable clips is completely separate from the Beetle Buckles detaching in storage.
This is just my review of the suspension. It's cool that the Beetle Buckles can detach quickly, so that if you don't use Dutch Clips, you can easily put the strap through its own loop and tighten it around the tree. But I would like something much quicker. So I'm going to get some Dutch Clips. that you for all the experience reports on how well they stay on, etc.
2) It seems like many of you don't ever store your suspension with your hammock. This lead some people to not even understand my issue. I'll clear it up. Perhaps it's not something that anyone thinks is valuable but regardless of how you feel about it, this is just to clear up what I'm doing and why I wanted to try to fix the Beetle Buckles more tightly to the continuous loop.
I tend to like to pull the suspension out of one end of my double sided stuff sack, wrap it around the tree, and then walk away, allowing the suspension to unravel out of the bag. When I'm about half way, I open the other end, pull out the other suspension, and walk to the other tree to hang it up. In the process, the hammock spreads out between the trees, stays off the possibly wet, muddy, or sticky ground. Then pull the stuff sack to one side and adjust the buckles.
This process gets interrupted if the continuous loop has separated from the beetle buckle in the suff sack, which I find happens about half the time. This means that when I pull away to setup the second suspension, the first one drops off, I need to reach in the bag, find where the continuous loop is, and put it on the buckle. I know this is a minor issue but this is hammock camping after all. Tons of us love to fiddle with our process and customize it until it's perfect.
Anyway, it's possible I'll switch to hanging up my straps on both trees before getting the hammock out of my pack and storing them separately always. I'm just going to have to see what works best for me.
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