HH standard hanging?

[Just Jeff]

Good idea on the mini-spool - just ordered some black 2.8mm!

[Redtail]

backcountrygear.com also sells the SMC rings. Might be cheaper to combine shipping with your biners.

[Eron]

backcountrygear.com also sells the SMC rings. Might be cheaper to combine shipping with your biners.

YES!! Thank you. Same price, less shipping. I updated my first reply (going to have a "how-to-on-the-cheap" soon, thanks to you all).

[Eron]

I snapped a strand of 2.8mm Spyderline as the main suspension line (bad geometry---too shallow an angle) and subsequently changed to 3.8mm (and got better with geometry). Still small and light.

Thanks. I subscribed to the following thread so I could review and understand the geometry better:

http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=2032

Broke a hammock this fall due to bad geometry myself. Built a "ring buckle prototype" out of some junk from the local hardware store and this forum. Used SS rings, nylon webbing that slipped (knew poly was better but there were no labels on the spools), ran the webbing back through the loops and then pulled WAY TOO TIGHT!!!. I wanted to be flat and push the limit. Had this all rigged up on one of those old "green webbed hammocks" from the last century (around the '80s). POP!!! POP!!! POP!!!. I had an air mattress underneath and climbed back in three times to observe the lessened amount of hang time as each subsequent line broke.

Maybe when the biosteel get's here I can build one like that.

[Eron]

several hints (might not like them, but I dont know)

Hints are always welcome.

...if you only need 50 feet and go with the 3.8 (or 75 feet for 2.8) a mini spool might be better.

Thanks. Great suggestion. I'm going with the mini spool in order to tie a ridgeline and have some extra for one of my friends.

thread:

I was getting way to obsessed with some mil-t and thread. Can't even find it anymore. Tensile strength seems a good gauge. Hard to gauge that walmart stuff at home.

re: thread quality.

Ran across this today:

http://www.amefird.com/thread_construction.htm

Interesting read.

[Eron]

I'd get the 100% polyester Gutterman thread from OWF as well. It's cheap, nice color selection, and you'll save on shipping.www.owfinc.com/Hardware/Shardware/thread.asp

thanks, looks good. that german stuff usually works well. i dropped it in the plan.

[dpage]

HH will do repairs on there product's for just a little $$$ 1-888-539-2930 HH warranty