The LoopAlien and a Continuous Ridge Line 

This is the best demonstration I’ve seen.

Thanks Derek! I had purchased some and gave up on them. I rewatched this video and realized I was an idiot and now it's very simple. Amazing what makes my day now.

Great video thanks

Instructive and fun to watch. I recently bought a pair and am going to play with them today, so this was perfect timing to find this video :)

Thanks, I had bought a few and forgot about them. Now I know how to use them.

That’s just great! Of course the Loop Alien will do just the same job on Tent Guy Lines? They come in different anodised colours too. I’ve seen red, blue and cold as well as the plain Alu. Different coloured lines are available, everywhere. So, it’s easy to customise your lines and clips etc to your own liking. All very simple, obviating the need for knots, and the need to buy expensive Titanium clips and hooks etc I’m going to buy a dozen of them, in red for use with my reflective yellow or green line. Just to personalise my much loved tent a bit. Why not hey? Thanks for the vid I did enjoy it.

I think these just overcomplicate things too much when used like this. The method of attaching the tarp at the standing end accomplishes nothing that can't be achieved even better with a mini carabiner like in your double-carabiner method. However, I'm going to try using one of these attached to the biner in place of the prussik used for tensioning the ridgeline, since I have a hard time getting enough tension on the prussik when my hands are cold with the reflective cord I'm using. The only issue I can see is that that piece wouldn't really be attached to the rest of the line when not in use, and I prefer to have my ridgeline all together and not partly left on the tarp (in case I decide to switch tarps last-minute).

Thanks

Best use for LAs is using them to rig pulley systems I'd say, waterbuckets on a drop, lifting logs/boards to make sawhorses or tables or raising/holding roof beams whilst you secure the other end...

What's wrong with a bowline and truckers hitch? Nothing to loose...

I know, right? I'm convinced its an addiction. Why can't I just settle down with a nice piece of titanium and live out the rest of my life in peace?

This devise is genius holy crap I may or may not order at ton from ripstop by the roll.

Have you done any vids with the knotbone?

Oh hey... no knots... first thing we do is tie a knot... lmao.

Neat little devise! What is it about hardware that is so much fun?

I have a few, they are cool :)

Nope. Honestly, there's not much to show because it has a very straightforward mechanism. I do have an illustration I did for WhoopieSlings-dot-com /Tarp_Lines.html

hmmmm..... that's only a 2:1 mechanical advantage I feel, cause if it was a 3:1 that would make the 180 deg turn on the metal pole the 2:1 point, which it isn't............ (unless you were totally hanging off the ridge line while pulling)

You really shouldn't expose dyneema to any friction (wrapping it around a tree in this case). Yeah, dyneema is really strong, but with these thin lines once a milimeter of material is rubbed off the strength could be half of the strength before.

Do you know the load limit of the LoopAlien?

item is totally unnecessary...

For people too lazy to tie a taught line hitch or any other knot

Knots are free and don’t weight anything

Taut-line hitch does the same thing,Maybe just learn how to tie basic hitches & knots,stop wasting money on dumb gimmicks.

Why are so many people Geeking out on Hammocks these days?

too fiddly. not worth