brock6212
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So I’ve basically dismantled a first lite corrugate jacket to build my saddle. I cut the sleeves off, in hopes to salvage a hooded vest out of the deal. Dumb luck, but I only ended up using the upper portions of the sleeves, and had the last 8-9” remaining, down to the cuff. I originally was going to wrap an existing hand muff, but the sleeve remnants were way to tight. So here I sat with useless scraps.
I know lots of guys use the molle dump pouches, but they are so loud, and in the ensuing cold I can imagine they’ll get louder. It dawned on me I could simply stitch the sleeves together, and attach a piece of webbing, along with a triglide, and attach them to the molles on my saddle. Unfortunately I don’t have any triglides, but I did have some molle bungee clips. I ended up stitching those to the sleeve cuffs on the inside. Of course before all of this I coiled up my tethers to see if they’d fit. The stretch fabric works nicely to keep things tidy, and the stretchy/smaller cuff opening keeps things secure as well. They’re dead silent, at least compared to the dump pouches. In my experience this material gets even more quiet with use.
For reference, I’m running an 11mm 8‘ tether, no sewn eyelets-tied knots, a prusik on one, and a michocoan on the other, along with a biner on each hitch. Kinda seems bulky, but packs nicely in these new bags.
I know lots of guys use the molle dump pouches, but they are so loud, and in the ensuing cold I can imagine they’ll get louder. It dawned on me I could simply stitch the sleeves together, and attach a piece of webbing, along with a triglide, and attach them to the molles on my saddle. Unfortunately I don’t have any triglides, but I did have some molle bungee clips. I ended up stitching those to the sleeve cuffs on the inside. Of course before all of this I coiled up my tethers to see if they’d fit. The stretch fabric works nicely to keep things tidy, and the stretchy/smaller cuff opening keeps things secure as well. They’re dead silent, at least compared to the dump pouches. In my experience this material gets even more quiet with use.
For reference, I’m running an 11mm 8‘ tether, no sewn eyelets-tied knots, a prusik on one, and a michocoan on the other, along with a biner on each hitch. Kinda seems bulky, but packs nicely in these new bags.
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