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    Senior Member Cogneato's Avatar
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    Woke up to a nightmare!

    The side pull outs on my Blackbird ripped off this morning!! I don't know if I had them tensioned to tight, or if my dog chewed through them, but they were snapped on both sides!! I replaced the black pullouts with some dyna-glide (spelling?), which works fine, but makes the set up lose some of its stealth factor. Mr. Warbonnet Guy called me about it, QUICKLY! Thanks Brandon, you rock man.

    So, any opinions on this would be appreciated. I think I had it too tight, because I don't think the dogs outside would have just chewed on the lines.
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    It sounds like you had them much too tight. But that was compounded by replacing the standard shock cord with a no-stretch line like dyna-glide. The shock cord will stretch to account for movement of the hammock, but dyna-glide won't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by angrysparrow View Post
    It sounds like you had them much too tight. But that was compounded by replacing the standard shock cord with a no-stretch line like dyna-glide. The shock cord will stretch to account for movement of the hammock, but dyna-glide won't.
    +1 on that
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    Senior Member Cogneato's Avatar
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    Not the shock cords. I didn't replace the shock cords. It was the black line that holds the ring the shock cords run through. Those black lines snapped on both sides. I replaced the black lines with dynaglide after they broke.
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    Both sides?
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    Quote Originally Posted by angrysparrow View Post
    It sounds like you had them much too tight. But that was compounded by replacing the standard shock cord with a no-stretch line like dyna-glide. The shock cord will stretch to account for movement of the hammock, but dyna-glide won't.
    That must be the culprit, I'm thinking. I can't imagine getting that shock cord tight enough to rip, unless you were attached up high to a bush/tree branch or hiking pole. Because if attached to ground stakes, lines tend to get looser once you are in and the hammock sags.

    EDIT: OK, I see you didn't replace the shock cords. This is odd.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cogneato View Post
    Not the shock cords. I didn't replace the shock cords. It was the black line that holds the ring the shock cords run through. Those black lines snapped on both sides. I replaced the black lines with dynaglide after they broke.
    Sorry to be dense, but I'm confused as to what snapped. You replaced the black line with dynaglide after the black lines snapped ON BOTH SIDES. Is this all that snapped, the black line?

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    Might i suggest having a investigative look at the broken line !?

    The line is pretty light but i'm almost certain the cordlocks and shockcord would give before it breaks! How tight did you tension the tieouts? Or did you tie off without the shockcord?

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    I have a HH and both tie-out lines have been broken, in my front yard. I'm convinced my two dogs (about 50 lbs each) were playing and chasing each other and ran into the lines, at two different times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rain Man View Post
    I have a HH and both tie-out lines have been broken, in my front yard. I'm convinced my two dogs (about 50 lbs each) were playing and chasing each other and ran into the lines, at two different times.

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    I think that's what happened.

    I'll try to make this more clear. If you've seen a BB, you know that the shock cords run through rings that are attached to black lines on both sides of the hammock. Those black lines snapped on both sides. After they snapped, I replaced them with dynaglide as a temp fix.

    I really think the dogs were playing around and they just ran into the cords and broke them. Thats the only explanation that makes sense.
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