Went out for my first hang a couple days ago. After poking around here I made up an adjustable style using prussiks, tublular webbing, and biners. It worked well, didn't slip, and was pretty easy to make small adjustments.
Any ideas? Good/bad?
Went out for my first hang a couple days ago. After poking around here I made up an adjustable style using prussiks, tublular webbing, and biners. It worked well, didn't slip, and was pretty easy to make small adjustments.
Any ideas? Good/bad?
I like what you did. How hard was it to take that knot out of the tree huger?
That's a good question. I haven't tried yet. Guessing it's going to require some effort but it's not in there for good.
I'll beat it up with a fid if I have to...
That wouldn't be #8 on lows would it? Nice set up. Will the prussics hold in the rain?
Is that a water knot o the huggers?
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people THINK your stupid than to open it and PROVE it" - SFC Kagawa, United States Army (my old platoon SGT)
*Originally -Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 -1865)
looks good. Given what you have the only thing I would do different is tie permanent loops in the webbing. Slip one end through the other an then clip in. No more knot worries.
Strong enough, but heavy and more fiddling to adjust the hang.
It looks like you have the webbing in a larks head around the tree on the far end, so you don't have to get the knot out. You can always take a longer loop around a small tree a few times to take up the extra. I would just eliminate the yellow line and tie the stock Hennessy line to the carabiner with a figure-8 on a bight. The fewer knots and lines, the better.
Good call. Yes it's #8 at Lows or Hitchins/Hitchkins pond.
I thought about just going straight from the HH suspension line to the carabiner, but decided having some easier adjustment with the prussiks would be better for now, until I have a better idea of what I need.
For me, the prussiks did hold in the rain. The yellow is new line (6mm) that I roughed up a bit with some emery paper to take the shine off and give it some more grab. (fwiw I'm somewhere around the 280# mark.) I did put some backup stopper knots in just in case, but the prussiks held.
The webbing was my most undecided part. Yup, a follow through water knot joining both ends creating a loop. I thought about sewing the webbing into a loop, but that would decrease my options for the trees.
I was thinking the webbing is going to be the more static part of my system. Adjust the tie as necessary; ie basket hitch, girth hitch, larks head, tensionless... whatever would fit better for a larger or smaller diameter trees.
Thanks for the ides.
The better I get at picking the "right" couple trees I'm sure I'll refine the system.
I took off the stock suspension and made whoopies with amsteel. I use a similar method with tree huggers and a toggle that I cut from a broken aluminum arrow shaft. It holds my 220lbs with ease.
I have a pic somewhere of my daughter in her baby swing hanging from the birches behind your hammock. Small world.
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people THINK your stupid than to open it and PROVE it" - SFC Kagawa, United States Army (my old platoon SGT)
*Originally -Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 -1865)
that pic of my baby girl in the tree. a good start to a hammock i gues!
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people THINK your stupid than to open it and PROVE it" - SFC Kagawa, United States Army (my old platoon SGT)
*Originally -Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 -1865)
The tree on the right side in the that's holding the baby swing is a stump about 4 feet high now. Looks like it has been down for a couple years judging by the decay at the top of the stump.
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