after 3 years of happy,restfull years useing my hammock followed by 2 months of entertaining,educational hf visiting.it was bound to happen,a person can only absorb so many new methods,can only hear so much good advice, and can only learn so many new knotts,before he has to do something.thanks everyone for sharing so much on here.this is what i came up with.i bought all my stuff from AHE.
i made it an adjustable ridgeline with like a sls with a whoopie on each end.
i started with a 25' lengh of 7/64 amsteel.about 13' from one end i made a whoopie threading a cinch buckle through in the process .
instead of using a ring and a fixed loop to attach the mammock to the ridge,i decided to tie an alpine butterfly knot.i thickened the line thru here by drawing another piece of amsteel into my main one(50").my reasons for doing this was to give the knot area more strengh,and to have a thicker rope threaded thru my hammock.
here is the alpine butterfly being tied with the thickened rope.tied a 20" loop
i then untied my old suspension then taped my new loop to the old.i pulled out the old rope and pulled in the new.
i then had to feed the whoopie,buckle and rest of line through loop that had just been pulled through hammock end,and pull tight.
next i made another line just like the first one for the other end of the hammock.i attached the two lines together over the hammock with a ucr to form the adjustable ridge line.
i hung from it three weekends.after setting the sag and changing the lengh of the loops to13"foot end 14"head end on the first trial, i have left it alone.i like it very much.
of course i had to change my tarp ridgeline also
love these AHE buckles,seat belt webbing,and carabiners,
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Originally Posted by GiantDave
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