Help! Can't get my hammock down

**TZ75man** · 10-26-2014, 03:57

I've had it hanging for quite awhile and I can't get the whoopies to relax enough to take it down. Any ideas besides cutting my whoopies?

**mountainm** · 10-26-2014, 04:43

What are the whoopies hanging from?

**mountainhanger** · 10-26-2014, 05:20

you should be able to raise it enough to slip off of a msh..unless you have it strung real tight to something else??? pics would help us..or more details on how you have it suspended..

**_jstevens2010_** · 10-26-2014, 05:46

Try and lift the hammock up so that there is no tension on the line and see if that can work.

**Catashep** · 10-26-2014, 06:45

I have had this situation before when using carabiners and trees spaced at a long distance from one another. I had to take everything out of hammock and have someone else lift the hammock and pull very hard toward me. We managed to move it a very little bit at a time. If using carabiners, try opening one and turning it end-to-end while the person is pulling. Sometimes this is easier because you actually move the opening of the carabiner to the whoopie rather than the other way around.
I now use toggles and no matter how tight the hang, it is VERY easy to release whoopies.

**Phantom Grappler** · 10-26-2014, 07:09

TZ75man
What they said.
If you can remove whoopies from hammock. And if you can remove tree strap from tree. Compress both ends of the bury in towards the center of the bury and grab the strand that exits the bury (inside strand) and push the outside of bury towards the hammock end of whoopie sling. If you have no way to release hammock from whoopie and or release tree strap from tree. And if you have pulled adjustable loop of whoopie all the way into itself to the point that the loop has disappeared, then that can be a challenge. If you have time, get friends to help solve this challenge.

**Phantom Grappler** · 10-26-2014, 07:23

TZ75man
If one or both your trees are bendable, then using extra amsteel, pull the trees closer together to make them let pressure off your rig.

**Phantom Grappler** · 10-26-2014, 08:14

TZ75man
Cut tree strap close to sewn loop. Can make a temporary loop with a knot like Alpine Butterfly Loop if you even need a loop on that end. Then later sew new loop back on new end.
To release whoopie hold inner line still and push bury away from inner line. If you pull the inner line (where it exits from inside the bury you can be re-setting the bury and or making the bury hold even tighter.