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welcome from up north! i go to the city every once and a while to visit a good friend who lives there.

i still use a 50 degree mummy bag, just with my diy underquilt i had to double up and toss an extra blanket over myself on a surprise 27 degree night but it wasnt that bad just my feet got a little...

i use amsteel soft shackles too on all my hammocks too, simple cheap and easy biners are easier but take up valuable room in the stuff sack for me. i use cinch buckles saves from having to repull the...

but the hang angle is 30 degrees in both setups, is what im trying to get at. one purpose of the ridgeline is so that you don thave to put your straps 15ft up in the air to get a 30 degree hang if...

but depending on the angle of the straps, it would be more or less load on the trees. you can put 1000lbs of force on both trees with a 150lb person, likewise you can also have 150lbs on each tree...

oh lol my bad i didnt notice im not familiar with the fs section rules here as i dont use them much i just seen a big thread about it. sounds like users need to be more responsible.

on another unrelated forum i am also a member of, the for sale section has a feature where users can move their own threads in the fs section, there is a sub forum called "sold!" and users are...

il be on the brazos next weekend with my kayaks but will mostly be using them to set trot lines by camp. il be south of waco though.

second time taking my diy bridge hammock out it was a beautiful day and night i think 70 was the low that night and clear skies so no tarp, but i did take a cheap walmart tarp and lay it on the...

ive done it had an abnormally cold night in october it got down to 27f and i put a 50 degree bag inside a 50 degree bag plus my UQ underneath and an adventure blanket ontop worked pretty good, feet...

i always thought my 15' straps were overkill, till i had no option but to use a what im guessing was a 100+ year old tree it used every bit of it i had about 4" through my cinch buckle and about 1'...

if im out camping or fishing 99% of the time i just rinse my hands off in the creek / lake im at to get the dirt off and then wipe my hand off on my pants or towel and get on with it, about the only...

sounds like someone needs a bridge hammock :)

im up in northern OK and i thank you for not coming up here LOL i know it sounds rude, but our little spot of land we have here gets invaded every hunting season by HUNDREDS of hunters from OKC/Tulsa...

so, i used it again this weekend, it worked flawlessly first night was about 50f, i was in my 50 degree bag with a normal size pillow, and ontop of the sleeping bag i put my tribe provision adventure...

nah she was good that's pretty common for the base of the trees in the area it floods there regularly, tree was green as could be up top and we did give it a few test yanks :)

tested her out this weekend it worked flawlessly i was a little over prepared insulation wise, ended up shedding off all layers by 5am lol. did have a unnerving thing happen, something walked under...

thanks! its way easier than it seems i seemed to have picked up sewing pretty quick im not a master, but it turned out way better than i thought it was going to.

just wanted to share the diy bridge hammock im pretymuch finished with im pretty happy with how it came out.

i used 3/8 kevlar mule tape in the two channels then 7/64 amsteel for the rest. for...

was actually planning on puting it from cinch buckle to cinch buckle, already did worked pretty good, when i make my bugnet im going to attach it to the ridge line granted i can hang a tarp right...

awesome thanks for the tips guys!
after i messed with the angle lastnight i found out i had it strung up too tight after i lowered it down a bit i found the position that worked best for an almost...

OK well I just finished my bridge hammock and tried to use 5/8 Dowell rods for spreaders and one exploded making a small hole in my hammock should be an easy patch what material are people using for...

any particular reason why or why not?

im in the middle of a DIY bridge hammock, was wondering if anyone used srl's for them, im debating on adding one to mine would be be useful besides something to grab onto to get in and out?

i dont have a single knot in my entire setup besides the loops tied in my tree lines which is a basic utility loop and the diamond knot on my soft shackles which can be replaced with a biner.
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im almost done with mine based on this, i used 3/8 kevlar muletape 1800# needless to say i was ******* bricks laying in it to test it out. all good so far. but my bigges question so far, how big of...

i think the multi cam and some of the digicam materials are better about not having such repeating patterns. i also dont think many of the manufacturers expect the fabrics to be used on such a large...

if i were you to give the tarp a little more longevity i would invest in a set of snake skins and pull them closed when its not being used.. then again that would leave your hammock exposed. so maybe...

buckles and 15' polyester straps so simple and strong

i have a picture of it somewhere, i just tie onto the roof rack or rollbar on my jeep. one time at some campgrounds i couldnt get to any trees due to flooding so i tied from my roof rack to the...

hello from oklahoma! im always so far from everyone! lol

yeah alot of other forums im on have this function normally under quick links > my threads.
search.php?do=finduser&userid=113244&starteronly=0&contenttype=vBForum_Thread the link is generally just...

welcome from newkirk :)

i use amsteel 7/64 for my ridge line, and its generally tight as a guitar string since i like to keep as close to my tarp as possible without hitting it. but its a bit stronger than zingit i believe....

did you happen to find some that was coated? i been keeping an eye out, but not much luck. i have found some pu coated + dwr digicam 1.9 im really eyeballing for a tarp, then again i already started...

i just leave them on the ground under the hammock, i wear slip on's mostly, but i do make sure to jam my feet in them fast and wiggle them around to make sure i get any spiders before they get me!...

soooo... $5 or spending lots of time and effort waterproofing the down?

yeah im not too worried about it getting too cold, coldest i might possibly be camping in would be 50-60f at night which i believe this should handle comfortably... but only one way to find out :)
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thanks :)

hey i just made an underquilt that would match! lol we probably bought the fabric from the same seller!... now i want to make a matching hammock....and i need to learn to hem like that.

that makes sense, i mean if they were using normal straps it would be 6 x 1" straps.... this is 3 wonder how thick they are, im too lazy to look this morning. lol. but id imagine they'd need to be 2"...

i didnt take any pictures of the making process, was too excited and in a hurry to break out the sewing machine.... that sounds manly...
dimensions 48x 70? i think il have to measure again
made...

i havent had any issues at all with paracord stretching at all. but i also dont use actual paracord i use the $1.50 stuff from the camping section in walmart.
but i just looked up what these things...

had me another pretty good camping trip out at kaw lake fishing was kinda slow but had fun, had some beer, did some kayaking.
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i just use paracord works pretty good.

awesome! thanks! yeah il save the down for another day once i learn how to sew this stuff a little bit and get the correct fabric :)

yeah sorry for the late reply, i went back and looked at the listing stupid me didnt read the details its pu coated and dwr... wish i had bought more of it because best i can do with it now is make a...

hahahahahahha i lost it. that was amazing!

to be fair the shackles are a fraction of the price, im sure both have their trade off's as i bet the hooks are easier to use

ok another quick question i didnt feel like wasting another thread on.
this 1.9 i got is supposedly just "dwr" but it was 2nds on ebay i got some cheap stuff to learn on... should i be able to...

stealing this idea. building one for my jeep by next summer :)