Soft shackles for flags

[dmonn]

I've noticed that the typical metal clips used to attach flags to halyards on flaglpoles tend to beat up on the pole and break. I've replaced several of those metal clips with soft shackles I made just for that purpose. I made them extra long so that they can be prussik-hitched to the halyard rope and then still opened and closed to attach the flag. They have held up well for the six or eight months they've been in use. The only issue I've seen so far has been when somebody raised the flag a little agressively and the soft shackle slid down the halyard when it reached the block at the top of the pole. I fixed that by adding a few stitches to help hold the prussik hitch in place when that happens.

Just curious if anybody else has tried using soft shackles for that purpose and what their experience has been.

 

[Trreeguy]

That’s a great idea I been really into making them out of hollow braid throw line and using in leu of a mini biner

 

[Jehinten]

I've noticed that the typical metal clips used to attach flags to halyards on flaglpoles tend to beat up on the pole and break. I've replaced several of those metal clips with soft shackles I made just for that purpose. I made them extra long so that they can be prussik-hitched to the halyard rope and then still opened and closed to attach the flag. They have held up well for the six or eight months they've been in use. The only issue I've seen so far has been when somebody raised the flag a little agressively and the soft shackle slid down the halyard when it reached the block at the top of the pole. I fixed that by adding a few stitches to help hold the prussik hitch in place when that happens.

Just curious if anybody else has tried using soft shackles for that purpose and what their experience has been.

A thought on keeping the Prussik from slipping. You could tie an alpine butterfly in the halyard at the location of the top flag attachment and use a soft shackle to attach to it. Then prussiks for attachment points below at the appropriate points. The alpine butterfly would knot block the block at the top preventing it from being raised too high.