This reminds me, although I am currently using beast sticks, I bought a set of the hawk helium 20” sticks a few months ago. I also bought amsteel 7/64 daisy chains. This was going to be my secondary set of sticks. I tested the hawks on a tree in my yard. I recall one of the sticks did kick out, but not so much that it came out and up. I didn’t feel I was in any real danger. I believe I still had a foot on the stick above. I just used my foot to straighten it up and pushed down on it to reset. I have never had a stick kick out on me before. I wrote it off that maybe I didn’t set it firmly enough or it could have been because the tree was a smoother hard bark tree. Looking at the hawks, that stand offs are pretty narrow compared to other sticks. I’m not knocking the hawks, just an observation. This and the incident above makes me a bit concerned about using them with the daisy chains.
Just today, before I read all this, I had removed the amsteel daisy Chains from the Hawks and put them on my beast sticks. I was running the web daisy chains on the beast sticks. Maybe I should reconsider. I haven’t had an issue with the web daisy chains on the Beast sticks. But maybe a daisy chain is a daisy chain.