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Distel to caribeaner question

Buy bulk prussic material sized properly for the rope you are using and make custom length hitch cords. Tie double fisherman's for termination that the carabiner will go through. I personally use a Michocan hitch for pretty much everything- use with Ropewrench as well as on my linesman belt.
 
cedar paul said:
Buy bulk prussic material sized properly for the rope you are using and make custom length hitch cords. Tie double fisherman's for termination that the carabiner will go through. I personally use a Michocan hitch for pretty much everything- use with Ropewrench as well as on my linesman belt.
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That Michoacán whatever hitch looks like a Blake’s hitch except you only come back up through one wrap instead of two. I might give it a try.

 
Its basically a Blake's with eyes and you can use a 5/1 wrap or a 4/2 wrap. Tends well and grabs reliably as long as you strive to get both legs the same length.
 
raisins said:
Most sewn eyes to eyes (and sewn loops) are for arborists and are very long for our purposes. I've spent hours looking. Closest thing is aerohunter and I believe wessupr sell a short sewn eye to eye for samson predator, but it is too thick for oplux. I've considered having custom eyes sewn in 6 mm TRC, which works really well with oplux. One of these days, a saddle hunter will figure out how to use their industrial sewing machine sew rope eyes. I think it is just a long bar tack where the ropes are pushed together with probably a vise during sewing and probably a blunt needle is used.
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I was hanging from Sally the saddle from my front porch beam and already had my front porch walking foot sewing machine set up with V135 polyester. I took the tail end of the rope and stitched it together. I put a carabiner through the eye, over my porch beam and clipped onto the rope. I was hanging from Sally with no problem from this connection. I have to get better at sewing this, count stitches and calculate the strength of this joint before I would use this at height. I could sew down the loose end of my figure eight knot to prevent it coming undone without testing.
 
Are there any guidelines for min / max tail lengths on the distel hitch for best function other than trying to get them as close as possible to the same length?
 
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