Originally Posted by
DemostiX
OP: Thanks for a great, authentic report.
There are very inexpensive 50mm x 10mm two-sided dog-bone shaped velcro-equivalent strips with cuts in the middle so they can be cinched back on themselves around wire, electric cord...... and tarp tie out line. Sold by the perforated sheet, cheap. Dollar stores? Surplus electric supply houses? Another bright idea, cheap to produce, that really are useful.
Opie or Dutch here have a recent video promotiing a DIY system to manage tie-out line. IIRC, sew some velcro equivalent to short strips of elastic band to the tarp tie outs. The strips I described above might make the elastic unnecessary.
The sewing isn't intense.
There's another thread going now on mason line. Members are having different experiences with it, not all good, because its a diverse lot that gets labeled "mason line" these days.
On tree spacing. Yeah, when you have a hammock to hang in the evening you're scanning all adjacent pairs of trees of the forest for spacing.....all day.... instead of enjoying the scenery. <smile> As though you were a timber broker.
There have been other expressions of hope, here, that the 1.1 oz tarp and 2.5 mil thick ridgeline will offer some protection from falling limbs. Shall we just concede that Dyneema isn't, oh, "resilient to sudden shock." Just because we're looking to be spaced between trees doesn't mean our risk is much greater than those already camping on the ground in the forest. Who is really safe, those who strap themsleves vertical and tight TO a tree? We'll just feel the blow, in a hammock, a microsecond earlier than ground-dwellers will.....should it come. Hammockers who survive a fallen limb with just an injury and who publicly thank the thin length of dyneema overhead for survival are at risk of losing custody of their children over their judgement about effective risk-mitigation. Camping in the woods just exposes you to greater exposure of a fallen limb than sleeping at home, or in a lean-to you've built with a collection of fallen limbs you've spent the better part of the day dragging to one spot and assembling into a structure.
Hardcore hiking good stores in the Boston area should have line they sell as hard-to-tangle. Everybody uses rain-flys and has to tie them up / down. Top quality line with known properties will be found in any length at boating supply places around the hahbuh. For very thin, consider hi poundage fishing line; and for dyneema the spear-fishing line diving stores stock.
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