Soft shackles are popular for attaching various suspension parts, but does anyone use conventional stainless steel sailing-type shackles?
They're compact, strong, cheap, and not particularly heavy.
I typically suspend my hammock off a long double-whoopie-ridgeline (this one is separable into ridgeline and whoopsie slings, but they haven't always been). I use alpine butterfly loops to hang the hammock. I have generally used marlin spike toggles to attach my hammock suspension loops to the alpine butterfly loops, but wondered about using a shackle instead.
So I did.
It works just fine, and gives enough of a "key" to suspend an underquilt from as well.
And now that's how I store my hammock, with the whoopies and ridgeline attached. Can separate then when I need to, but usually don't.
Thoughts?
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