Originally Posted by
3club
I had intended to take pictures of my setup, but if I wait until I have time to do that, it will probably be another month. So here I'll try to explain my thoughts using only words:
As I see whoopie-slings, they have two drawbacks: 1.) they add a minimum distance from hammock to tree, and 2.) they require twice the length of rope, without doubling the effective strength of it.
1.) The minimum length of a whoopie-sling is mostly the sum of the lengths of the buries of the two eyes.
2.) Throughout most of the whoopie-sling, the rope is really doubled up, dispersing the load across two ropes. So the strength of each loop is almost twice the strength of the rope of which it is made. But at the little tiny length between the two buries, there is only a single rope, and so the strength of the sling as a whole is limited to the strength of that section, the strength of the rope.
And then there was a loud rumbling, a blinding light, and voices in my head. Next thing you know, I'm putting the bury of the adjustable loop inside the section that is the fixed eye. Now the fixed eye no longer bears any weight and its bury can be very short. It could be done away with from a load bearing perspective, but it does still serve a new purpose. Now with the length of both buries almost removed from the equation, the minimum distance from hammock to tree becomes no more than the length of the fixed eye loop, which mostly goes through the end of the hammock itself. Minimum distance becomes almost nothing.
And now that there is no length "between the buries", the load bearing portion forms a continuous loop, and the weight is always divided by two ropes. So effectively you double the strength of the sling as a whole.
By doing so, I have slept for about a week now on 400 pound Lash-It, with no accidents. *Past performance is not an indicator of future success.
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