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this is a supremely interesting concept, and it deserves more attention!! if i had horses, i'd be fully devoted. i just made a slug tube from a playpen carrier and it appears that it'd ride in a...

this is a great concept, i have seen here before but never took the shot on it. last week, i broke a part of our take-a-long playpen (not the product name, kinda a crappy design, not worth noting...

the J-Bend does a pretty good job, but if you're for sure there's gunna be rain you can always tie on an additional rain-break line after the J-Bend on the CL itself

man!!! your setup seems more involved, though easily as modular and adjustible. i like the double hook used as a becket idea, that suits my J-Bend CL connection method idea very well!! i only see the...

thanks to gilligansworld for the link to the myers vid, my setup is just a little bit different than his, klemheists instead of prussics and shock cord loops instead of amsteel tied onto the tarp. is...

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^old way was paracord and a steel 'biner
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^new way is a pair of hooks i dunno where they came from and some 1mm reflective line
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plenty of room to attach the hammock of...

If this is the same as the myers technique, which i have not seen, i salute his brilliance!! I did a little streamlining yesterday and had a small downpour to play in that ended up sprinkling all...

Oh really? I think i know where one of them dudes is layin dead in a field...hmm wish me luck lol

thank you for your input! That .035" thickness tubing sounds to be the winner. i live in the oilfield and people around here are not into things like hammockry so when ever i mention it i get laughed...

WE EAGERLY AWAIT THIS TEST OUTCOME!! I almost bought your materials JUST NOW but then I read the ‘ill let you know how it works out’ lol

Hunted for a gap filler between 3/4” and 1” emt the other day at home depot, no dice. Sorry

I havent built mine up yet, but i figure to build dedicated everything for the hammock i plan to dedicate to the t4. My tree setup system is standard now (short CLs, loong straps, J-Bends) so as long...

Ok, but convinced the wife we need to do this (lotsa hotels and their beds almost always suck) but before i dive in, talk to me of the ‘collar’ pipe that came from an old table, whats its ID and OD?...

Could always beef up the shock cord size. I have a spool of tiny 1mm, and put clew tabs on a giant sleeping bag and heavy as it is it works well; clews are multiple connection points (9 in my case...

Steel beams?! My friend, are you the constructor of this fortified building you live in? Was it a chopshop or a military bunker? Steel studs would be a marvel to put sheetrock to. Maybe alumnim...

Brilliant!! So you’re ending up with 12 thirty two inch hunks of 3/4” metal conduit? With 4” of overlap on your aluminum 1” collars (with pop rivets in one overlap to hold it steady) on the two...

Hear hear!! Thats where I wanna be

Check out the tensa4 stand. Started out as a diy build here on the forum and became a full scale production you can purchase. Both fully viable options, the tensa4 is pricy but folds down so compact...

thus far i have used this style of setup on two outings, and then gave the first ones i made to my brother; he digs it. i swapped suspensions entirely, so i'm not here to sing the usual UCR hammock...

absolutely brilliant!! definitely using these ideas in the future!! come up with a flat feld seam one!!

I still say phantom grapplers on tree straps is the best thing i ever seen for the tree connection. I still can't tie that double diamond though so i must do without

That is fully a larkshead knot!! You larkshead a toggle in and sleep on that? You sir, are a wild man and your name should be sung in the halls of the fearless :scared:

whats a cow hitch? one handed!? learn us!!

You guys have gone so far beyond a simple J-Bend, MSH, or beckett hitch!! Innovators!! I love all of it!! Keep hangin!

grand trunk double with trunk straps at sams club for $20!!!176735 deal that cant be beat!!

so, lemme put in two valuable cents on several points:
the no-line tarp suspension is having your tarp on the same suspension you have your hammock, there are a couple ways to make it happen. in my...

15+ is always good!

for you bro for you!!

https://youtu.be/Q0Z9TiMFDMI

if all other steps were properly followed, i believe you missed the "....tighten the MSH down on the CL real good..." line in the video, or at least that part of the process. otherwise, like...

pictures!! i wanna watch your system operate, so maybe a video even!! neat, thanks for carrying my name with you. ALL OF YOU J-Benders, thank you, teach ya kids!! lol

gizmos and gadgets lost their appeal for me when i realized i'd never find them in the duff. im a champion looser of things, can't loose knots and how to tie them though. the becket dropped me...

the piece you linked is the one i have used. i would guess the limit dances around 175-200lbs with those badboys on studs though, amending my previous statement about my lil bro though; we added a...

you guys are wild lol testing out things that could fail. get after it friends! good luck to all, i hope no one ends up on the ground, and definitely not because of a failed knot.

OneClick, are they thin enough to bite deeply without eating out of the 2x4s? thats the only worry, really

yeah like ylnfrt said, but i like it even less than he does. the home depot has truck bed anchors that have two bolts holes and a D-ring that articulates; i used that through 5 indoor installations...

half hitches are for the brave and fearless!

glad you like it! <3

i always tie a loop of paracord to each stake as an easy way to connect without worry. if i run my guylines out far i usually tie a taut line hitch unless its the end of the line and i just becket to...

F O R F R E E E E E!!! I love that about this community!! So i came up woth the no-line tarp suspension for between thw trees, I BET IT WOULD WORK ON THE TENSA provided your tarp was short enough to...

I wouldnt use velcro to attach the clews to the uq, i doubt it would hold. I tried the stickytape stuff to attach the loops with, but it didn't hold. I sewed lil ribbon loops and that worked fine (i...

Also, the knot i use on the tree straps to anchor the carabiner is called a klemheist knot, it’s a slide-n-grip like a prussic but it only grips one way. When you tighten it down really hard (like I...

if anything i ever do meets with the approval of The Phantom Grappler, my efforts have then already been rewarded.:shades:

you're right though, i bet if we tried, between a few determined guys, we could cause damages by yank-force. they ain't solid, and the concrete in this area (south eastern NM) is notoriously lame...

agreed, and understood, i do my very best not to bounce and instruct all who hang that a hammock does not equal a swing and that both are built and designed to do things differently. i don't spend...

While working to utilize steel carabiners as pulleys in the ‘pulley&double-line tarp ridgeline’ system, I had an idea! Seems to work, going to continue to utilize this method until I see fit to...

been using a tube shaped canvas yoga pillow with japanese silk cover filled with buckwheat for some time. takes a proper stuffing to be awesome, but without gets meh very quickly. after some strange...

I AM SO JEALOUS IT HURTS my '88 r100 is ultra down til i can get back to work (acl nonsense) and start buyin parts. dying to load it up and take it into the woods. get out there, and get me a picture...

i like saltfly's solution! ima look into that. KNOTSBYGROG!!! animated knot instructions!! https://www.animatedknots.com/klemheist/index.php everything is about neutral spine position, the pillow...

i forgot to mention that in order to keep my pillow from becoming lost under my back/butt, i tether it to a klemheist knot (oriented to slip towards the head end, but bind toward the center/foot end)...

I do a 4"x(maybe)20" round canvas zippered sack filled with buckwheat hulls, in a japanese silk double ended stuffsack cover, pillow under my neck to support proper spinal alignment; just moved from...