Which suspension?

[Richard Tipton]

Thanks folks, Dutch ships with his continuous loops lark's headed through the end channel but they loosen easily. I think I will convert to the gathered end knob and double larks head around that. Thanks again to the OP for the space on your thread.

After 1 or 2 hangs, they won't. You'll have to work to get them loose!

[jaycooper]

All of these are great options. It really depends on what you want to get out of the suspension. Are you looking for light weight, ease of use, or just looking to try something different? You could also just try a fixed loop on some amsteel larks headed on the gathered end of a hammock and then work on your knot tying skills at the tree straps. I personally have whoopee hooks on some and still have a few setups with speed hooks, just not using them as much right now. I am still waiting for Dutch to come out with speed hooks 2.0.

I consider all three of these to be primarily light weight, so that's not much of a problem. Really I'm just looking to try something different. I actually forgot about the speed hooks. Unfortunately I wasn't a member when the first ones came out, but now that you reminded me of them, I think I will wait until the 2.0s come out.

[fastfoxengineering]

I'm waiting on the speed hooks 2.0

4' Kevlar Huggers with sewn in Dutch Clips
7' AmSteel Leads
Speed Hooks 2.0

ultralight goodness

[Boston]

I'm going to offer you another option:

I like to to be able to remove my suspension from my hammock, so when it rains I don't have to pack the wet straps and whoopies away with with hammock. I also like my whoopie to be secured to the strap. I've never really had a problem once set, but it can be a pain ensuring the whoopie stays on the toggle during set up.

I use a whoopie hook onto fixed eye of the whoopie (or in my bridge I larks head the whoopie hook at the suspension triangle apex for ease of set up). You could also just larkshead to the hammock is you don't want the suspension removable, or use a soft shackle or carabiner.
I splice the adjustable loop of the whoopie through the end loop of my tree strap.
I use a G-clip (now Adutchable Clips) to adjust the strap length to the tree size.

This allows me to minimize my hang distance for a whoopie sling system to as small as possible.

[MAD777]

Here's what mine has evolved to:

Small Dynaglide continuous loop on the hammock followed by a Dynaglide whoopie Sling with a Dutch whoopie hook in the fixed eye (hooked to the continuous loop). The adjustable loop of the whoopie passes through Dutch's new Kelvar tree huggers which are attached to the tree with Adutchable Clips.

At least until Dutch comes out with his anti-gravity suspension.

[hangNyak]

Here's what mine has evolved to:

Small Dynaglide continuous loop on the hammock followed by a Dynaglide whoopie Sling with a Dutch whoopie hook in the fixed eye (hooked to the continuous loop). The adjustable loop of the whoopie passes through Dutch's new Kelvar tree huggers which are attached to the tree with Adutchable Clips.

At least until Dutch comes out with his anti-gravity suspension.

I discontinued the use of Speed Hooks on both my hammocks, until Dutch finds a replacement. I've gone back to the Warbonnet adjustable strap suspension on my new 11 ft. Argon hammock, for ease of use. On my 1.1 10 ft. hammock, I switched to whoopee slings for the light weight. My reason is I'll have two options. A comfort/ease of use hammock at 26 oz. or a lightweight hammock at 20 oz., depending on the trip. My question to you is, are the Dynaglide whoopies that much lighter and I've heard the Dynaglide can cut into the fabric? Have you found this to be an issue? Sorry if this is a thread derail, but I believe it pertains to the original post.

[MDSH]

I'm waiting on the speed hooks 2.0

4' Kevlar Huggers with sewn in Dutch Clips
7' AmSteel Leads
Speed Hooks 2.0

ultralight goodness

Just got the Kevlar material today -- amazing stuff.

Will order more for a Kevlar backpack project.

[MAD777]

I My question to you is, are the Dynaglide whoopies that much lighter and I've heard the Dynaglide can cut into the fabric? Have you found this to be an issue?

Ron, I been hanging on Dynaglide for 3 years without a single problem holding up my nearly 200#.

(well, there was that time I sucked my adjustable loop inside the bury) Oops!

[NWAlabamaHiker]

I personally use a whoopie sling ran through the gathered end of my hammock and just use a sturdy stick to make a marlin spike hitch on tree straps. That way I don't have to carry toggles with me, I can pretty much always find a decent stick laying around to use.

[Careta]

I use a soft shackle made of paracord in the end of my DD Hammocks Frontline
Then a climbing carabiner (multiple uses) to attach it to a whoopie sling and a tree strap round the tree with a marlin hitch and a toggle