Hammock Ridgeline 7/64" AmSteel Adjustable No hanging end Original design USA

Description

Structural Ridgeline - whoopie sling style made with 7/64" Samson AmSteel Blue*
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Includes two soft shackles also made with Samson AmSteel Blue.
Material - 7/64" 1,600 lb. test strength AmSteel Blue by Sampson.
Color choices - Black, Gray, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, or Blue.
Adjustable - 76 inch minimum, 135 inch maximum.
Fixed loop end - 2.5 inch loop, 10 inch bury.
Two Problems with Whoopie Sling style Ridgelines:
1.  The tag end of the Whoopie Sling tends to hang in your face or dangles on your feet, so most try to solve the issue by attaching the tag end to a Prusik knot, tie the end of the tag end to the ridgeline, or construct the Ridgeline so that the hanging end hangs out of the hammock, hopefully.
2.  A bead is used to keep the whoopie end from being pulled in on itself, which is fine for 7/64 Amsteel Blue, but not the most eloquent solution for a ridgeline.
How these two problems were solved:
1.  The solution to the hanging tag end problem is best illustrated in the second photograph showing the entire structural ridgeline loosely coiled. The use of a small fixed loop which is made with a locked Brummel splice and a bury, the same procedure used to make fixed loops on whoopie slings, so the loop is fixed and will not open or close, rides on the ridgeline so there is no hanging tag end. The second part of the solution for this issue is addressed is that the tag end does not vary in length, as the whoopie loop is adjusted, the short tag remains a constant short length.
2.  To address the problem caused by inadvertently pulling the whoopie end of the ridgeline in on itself I came up with a very simple solution. Instead of the traditional bead, I place a small "stint" placed in the beginning of the formation of the whoopie loop which makes AmSteel too large to pass back into itself. The "lump" the stint forms can be seen in the photographs, look near the adjustable bury.
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Creative Commons License:
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*Please note that Samson AmSteel Blue is often referred to as simply "AmSteel" rather than "AmSteel Blue" because the word "Blue" interjects undo confusion by suggesting that blue is the color. While it is available in blue, it is also available in six other colors as well. To add more confusion Samson makes another version of the same line that is "Samson AmSteel." AmSteel does not have the Samthane coating that AmSteel Blue has. I use only Samson AmSteel Blue to make items in the 7/64th inch size.
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**Attribution is required simply means that if someone asks about the design, and if you reproduced the item for personal use, or have written permission to produce and sell the items, you need to tell the about the source of the design, that's me.