The ring Reed and I use is one of the smaller, maybe the smallest ring dmm makes. Put your lanyard through the ring and slide the ring down and over the top wraps of the Mohican so that when your not using the ring for choke it will sit in the space above the bottom wrap of the hitch. If you use a 4over 1 then the ring sits below the 4 and above the bottom 1.This is what I did...
Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype
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If you would just look back at Reed's posts I think he took pictures and everything.
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My new batch of slic pins are a full 10mm diameter so they don't fit pin diameter I've been drilling for. My first two shackles were made with recalled cast Quickie pins. They have a smaller head. Here is the new shackle going forward (on the right):
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Haha I saw it say before yesterday or whenever it was first linked, but man I'm literally not seeing how he doesn't have to unclip a carabiner every time he wants to cinch. If I had a carabiner on the end of my lanyard instead of the eashook, easy peasy, I get it. I'll take another look in the morning and see if there's something obvious I'm missing here...
Ahh I see what your saying. Yes ditch the snap so you can just unclip the biner, slide the ring up over and off the hitch and slide the splice through and reclip the biner o to the eye. It will choke tight on any diameter I've tried and where I think it shines Best is when you want to remove it...it's fast slick efficient. Worth a try. If ya don't like it theres so many other ways to do this.
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oooooOOOOoooo that's nice! I'll have to play with that as well and see how it dooooo. Man, y'all that come up with this stuff have beautiful minds. I'd never think of half of this.
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I have been off on an extended road trip and am coming late to this thread. But after reading through all 16 pages I must say it makes me want to convert some of my canopy ropes to the Moss configuration. Way to think outside the box!
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Yep. So far as i’ve reported my 90’ line with the double eye and slic pin shackle has been excellent as a stand-alone climbing system. I’ve been using it for work as a second line when I’m in a situation where it adds advantage and for rec climbing it’s my go-to now. Much nicer to carry on my back into the woods than a 150’ or 200’ line.
I think i’ll be setting up a 120’ this way for a stand-alone work line.
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ARLO
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I made a knotted version using a Quickie shackle this morning and it seems to work fine. Probably not as smooth as your version with the round shackle, but definitely good enough to experiment with.
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Definitely knot as pretty as the sewn version, but it works. I just stole Climbstihl's idea and ran with it.
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Arlo, send me that Quickie and I'll send you back a slic pin bow shackle! And a sadly empty Quickie ;-) Just a heads up, a small detail... you're all sworn to secrecy lest Weaver or Notch product development is spying on this highly sensitive secret discussion... I put shrink tubing on the two sides of the second eye that holds the shackle. I noticed pretty quickly that taking the slic pin in and out when it is going through the eye (what I usually do with the bow shackle) picks rope strands.
The way you have the Quickie set up is perfect for a remotely cinched/removable anchor and clearly does not require shrink tube protection on the eye.
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Gratuitous product placement of a Very Not Bad Tree Gear slic pin shackle next to a rat body part! This is the remains of a rat below the great horned owl nest that I climbed to recently.
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ARLO
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Those rat parts are probably not discarded. Owls commonly store excess food on tree limbs and then retrieve it later. They don't waste much. And regarding the Quickie, I was wondering if I send you the Quickie and 65' of brand new Velocity would you be willing to make me a Moss canopy rope complete with bow shackle? I would be happy to do product testing and promise not to tell anybody except all the students in my next class.Gratuitous product placement of a Very Not Bad Tree Gear slic pin shackle next to a rat body part! This is the remains of a rat below the great horned owl nest that I climbed to recently.
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Looks like I need to put my quickie in there as well, I don't really use it for anything else anyway.
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I like my Quickie for midline basal anchors, it still has a home on my harness ;-)
-AJ
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Plan is, (and I know everything takes too long), to have some sewed up and pull tested in a few configurations then make them available if everything tests copasetic. I'm currently about to test 11mm vs. 11.6mm with the bow shackle to see which is better. The 11.7 Arrow Frog I'm currently using tends to jam a little in the throat of the bow shackle when used in "standard" cinch mode (not the retrievable/remotely installable mode). It's not a show stopper but if it works better with an 11mm line then that's what I'll go with for a production run.
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