Originally Posted by
Owl
I also had a failure in my TD stand this past weekend during my class at Backwoods...but it's entirely due to slippery floors and faulty design on my part.
I think that I left the paracord "limiter" rope attached at the bottom of the legs too long, and I just ran it through the legs without any kind of stops on the cord itself other than a single knot tying the ends together.
When I was in the hammock, I was adjusting my position when the legs slid out from underneath one side, dropping me to the ground. I think that since there was nothing from letting the legs themselves slide a bit, it deformed the triangle to the point where the whole thing moved.
Luckily I followed the golden rule...and didn't hang all that high. No damage to me or anything else, and I caught the ridgepole above my head before I hit the ground (don't ask me how, I don't know...LOL!).
So I'm going to change the way the limiting rope at the bottom works a bit, and see if I can find something to use as rubber feet to minimize sliding on tiles.