Extensions

[goobie]

I always have a pair of CL's and dogbones (fancy name for a length of amsteel with fixed loops on both ends) with my suspension. Rarely use em, but I'm used to carrying them so I do. Keep it all in an AHE sap sack.

[johnspenn]

Will have to look up what a dogbone is , and how they are used.

A dogbone is basically a piece of hollow core line (Amsteel, Zing-It, etc) with a locked brummel fixed loop of varying size according to need on each end. If you've spliced whoopies and Cls you can splice a dogbone no problem.

I'm guessing it gets its name from its shape- sort of like a dogbone treat. I don't know that for certain but makes sense to me.

[Richard Tipton]

I have a 2' dog bone larkshdaded to each tree strap. There when you need them and out of the way when you don't.

[happycamper001]

I carry extra zing it for tarp setup or other repairs and I carry a couple of amsteel loops for extending my hammock suspension. in my opinion it is better to extend the amsteel than straps because there is no extra stretch to worry about.

[Doctari]

The straps for my Whoopies are 8' long, I nearly cut them down to around 6', but something told me to wait till the end of my last trip to decide, I was so glad I waited, found ONE site to hang from one night, , one of the trees was 6.5' around. SO, I don't carry extensions, I just use really long straps.
FWIW: my straps are bright ORANGE because I have left my black straps behind when they blended in with the trees early AM. The Orange ones don't blend in with anything. I haven't even come close to forgetting them, but they do make "stealth" camping nearly impossible. Can see them from at least 100' away even through a fair amount of trees. My straps are luggage rack straps* from Harbor Freight, I don't notice any sag, & after about 50 hangs, no wear. *with the buckles cut off.

[Zilla]

The straps for my Whoopies are 8' long, I nearly cut them down to around 6', but something told me to wait till the end of my last trip to decide, I was so glad I waited, found ONE site to hang from one night, , one of the trees was 6.5' around. SO, I don't carry extensions, I just use really long straps.
FWIW: my straps are bright ORANGE because I have left my black straps behind when they blended in with the trees early AM. The Orange ones don't blend in with anything. I haven't even come close to forgetting them, but they do make "stealth" camping nearly impossible. Can see them from at least 100' away even through a fair amount of trees. My straps are luggage rack straps* from Harbor Freight, I don't notice any sag, & after about 50 hangs, no wear. *with the buckles cut off.

I also carry long straps. 15 footers , i mostly car camp and don't care about wieght at all but i do not want to come up short either, i also carry extensions.
I over pack,, carry extras of everything and am allways carrying way more than i need.
But i love to tinker with my gear, for me it's part of the enjoyment i get out of camping