I didn’t steal your SBiner idea….I stole it from
@Jay_Disarray on Mar16! Ha! Ha! Ha! and if truth be known, I prolly saw that bungee idea on here at one point or another lol. I don’t know if there are any original ideas left. You can’t attach the Sbiners to the rope because you need to be able to move them back and forth around the tree as you move the rope up. That’s also why you want the sbiner between the rope and the bungee cord. When you move the sbiner back and forth on the bungee side it pushes the bungee girth hitch further away making it tighter if anything. If you have it around the rope and the bungee it will grap the bungee girth hitch and pull it back toward you, reducing the tension. Took me a couple of times to figure that one out. I’ve mostly been climbing gumball trees, which are fairly smooth, need to try it out on rough bark trees, may not work as well on those when you move the tether up. May need to make one up outta larger diameter bungee cord for rough bark. Certainly will hold the tether up on any tree. I also really like he pear shaped quick link because it keeps the scaffold from eating itself, but the knot stays centered, unlike the delta, where the knot has a tendency to wander off to one side or the other. It’ a 1/4 6mm, 4400lb marine grade from US Stainless on Amazon for about $9.