Anyone with experience in this? When faced with no trees, like on the coast, and an open man-made shelter with wooden 4x4 posts a reasonable distance apart, how would one go about rigging tree huggers without them slipping? Also, what about hanging in a screened shelter? Neither of these would be my first choice, but if left without other options seems one could manage such that one would not have to go to ground.
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Leigh
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I hung off of 4x4's once. I just wrapped my Tree Huggers around the post a couple of times and it held. No guarantee, but it worked for me.
Yep, the friction will hold your tree huggers without much of a problem. I've tied around many, many, many smooth surfaces and have yet to have a problem. I'd be more worried about law enforcement thinking you are going to bring the shelter down on top of yourself.
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Yep - I've done it several times.
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My outdoor stand was vertical 4x4's No sweat with the holding. Many municipal and some state areas close at sundown so you might leave yourself open to a trespassing charge. But that's another question.
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Good to know! Thanks everyone
Leigh
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Antoine de St. Exupery
There was a thunderstorm coming so I slept under the picnic shelter at Blackburn Trail Center. The supports are larger than 4x4, but I cheated and put the straps above the diagonal supports so they couldn't slip. It didn't seem like they wanted to slip anyway and it was a great night's sleep.
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funny... i slept there, too! nobody snoring nearby...Originally Posted by Boris Losdindawoods
I hung in 2 different shelters in the smokies this year and it worked just fine.
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We hung in 2 different shelters in NC on the AT, no problem. No one was in the 1st one. The 2nd one, 2 hikers showed up and we asked them if the hammocks bothered them? They said no problem and asked a lot of questions about our setups. The reason we hung in the shelters was due to some nasty thunderstorms and not wanting to deal w/a wet tarp in the morning.
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