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Daisy Chain

It's not safety equipment, a strong cam buckle has a breaking strength of 1200lbs.

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I just made my first daisy chain from 7/16 Amsteel for my climbing sticks. What a slick way to connect sticks to a tree. I’m impressed how solid it is. No slipping and super easy to connect and disconnect. My first attempt was in total darkness on my neighbor’s tree. I’m sold.
And it is almost non existent wrapped on my sticks for stacking. Huge difference from the single line of 1/4” Amsteel I was using and wrapping around my versa button.


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PJC said:
I just made my first daisy chain from 7/16 Amsteel for my climbing sticks. What a slick way to connect sticks to a tree. I’m impressed how solid it is. No slipping and super easy to connect and disconnect. My first attempt was in total darkness on my neighbor’s tree. I’m sold.
And it is almost non existent wrapped on my sticks for stacking. Huge difference from the single line of 1/4” Amsteel I was using and wrapping around my versa button.


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Any chance you can try one on a maple or beech with their smooth bark? I have 1/4" mod and on one of those scaley peeling bark trees I had slip due to rope going loose after stepping on it and bark breaking. Can't see how a daisy would work given it isn't ever tight till loaded. I'll avoid those from now on. Lol
 
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I have some Smooth barked maples on one property I can try it out on.


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PJC said:
I have some Smooth barked maples on one property I can try it out on.


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Would be great, I'm wanting to do this mod. Amsteel is so fun to work with.
Any idea how long to make each one?
 
kenn1320 said:
Would be great, I'm wanting to do this mod. Amsteel is so fun to work with.
Any idea how long to make each one?
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I didn’t time myself but I would guess 45 minutes to make a 5 footer.


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PJC said:
I didn’t time myself but I would guess 45 minutes to make a 5 footer.


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Rope length, sorry. Lol wondering how many feet equals how many feet post splicing
 
Why isn’t two splices sufficient to lock those loops? Why do you need to make the third splice? It locks fine with two and the third one just puts more space between loops.


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I just made two 6’ daisy chains. Much faster with two splices and the loops are locked solid. Hooked it up to a tree and bounced on it good. Awesome.


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The 3rd splice I believe is to switch which rope becomes the loop and which is the back bone. Im not a rope expert, but thats what I got out of the drawing of how to do this.
 
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Why isn’t two splices sufficient to lock those loops? Why do you need to make the third splice? It locks fine with two and the third one just puts more space between loops.


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It would work, but you can still separate them if you want, with 3 it's impossible. It's taking the place of the bury on a locked brummel.

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This 7/64 Amsteel daisy chain works as slick as snot. Almost no play in the rope when you stand on the stick. With the 1/4" I would tighten it as much as possible to get it to squeeze into the back side of the versa button and tie it off with a couple half hitches. When I stood on the stick it always had to move an inch or so as the rope settled further into position as it squeezed down. With the daisy chain, there is none of that. This is a wicked slick setup. Fast and quiet. Super easy to take off and wrap up. The narrower rope doesn't get in the way when stacking the sticks either.
@kenn1320 wanted to know how it holds up on smooth barked trees. I didn't get to put it on a maple yet, but I put it on a telephone pole in my back yard and, the standoffs were a bit more noisy rubbing on the pole as they settled in (maybe 1/4") when I put my weight on the sticks but the rope didn't move a bit.
 
BCHunter said:
It would work, but you can still separate them if you want, with 3 it's impossible. It's taking the place of the bury on a locked brummel.

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Right


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Fyi, a bent in half hanger works just fine to splice amsteel
 
After another two hunts under my belt using the 7/64 Amsteel daisy chain I’ve decided that this method is the SHIZ! I love this. Makes setting up and taking down so dang easy. It’s super easy to get the bottom of the stick exactly the right distance from the top of the last stick. Just hook the closest link to the button, reach hands inside rope and move up or down until it’s where you want it, slide stick down with your hands and it’s set. Step up and you get almost no additional settling.


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