nice demonstration of how versatile this design is in terms of "home engineering opportunities". i'm just bothered by the thought of the dyneema rubbing through those holes and on the corners of the holes, as the stand settles every time it is loaded/unloaded, and wondering if that could be prevented (without making it a 45minute tensa, thus spoiling the ring of it
). perhaps instead of dog bones, two short softshackles on each side, with the bigger variety of stopper knot (the "spliced overhand" or something like that), and then put the carabinner (or a third softshackle) through both tails, of course hole edges still worth chamfering. the hope is that at least this way the stoppers will just rest against the hole without much movement, and as you're pulling each only from one direction, rubbing back and forth under load cannot happen.
and yeah, i guess it's not an issue as it is now, dyneema is well known to be hard wearing, and might well wear out channels in the wood before it wears itself out, but, well, seems like it would be easy to do and worth it (and two softshackles for this purpose will probably take the same or less than one dogbone to make, as we're talking just cutting the rope to length and making the stopper, you don't even need a capture loop in this case)
thanks for sharing, i find it inspiring.
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