I'm still really torn on this issue.
Made a couple of sets of Whoopie Slings. Have tree straps of differing lengths and just got a set of Dutch Buckles. Oh well I guess just keep playing.
It's just like the CTRL over vs under. Lol.
Decisions decisions...
Fry: "I can't swallow that!"
Farnsworth: "Well then, good news! It's a suppository."
Whoopies straps and toggles that is all I have gone two on all of my setups. No other type of clips or biners.
Jason
Whoopies on an 11 foot hammock take an awful lot of otherwise good spots out of play. I have a new WL Nite Owl that is about to get webbing and cinch buckles.
Dave
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."~~~May Sarton
I totally hear you . I starter out with straps simply because someone er generous enough to share. I know have Whoopies. I understand your point about an all in one system. Honestly I feel like my set up is also an all in one. Dutch clips ( New style ) are connected and now sewn onto my tree straps. My tree straps are larks headed onto my whoopies , Dutch whoopie hooks are spliced directly onto the whoopie. So when I set up I just wrap the tree with my straps and connect whoopie hooks to the continuous loops that are in the sewn channel. I don't have to think about it and there's nothing extra to watch out for. Everything is connected securely on one working system.
Oldgringo makes an excellent point!Originally Posted by oldgringo
Mike
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He tends to do that
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Webbing and cinch buckles nothing better in my opinion
CLYDE
Elephant trunks are the real deal they replace the need for using toggles, they work well with my whoopies which are much lighter than any straps.I took off the whoopies and use straps from Harbor Freight with Elephant Trunks. I love this setup and use it on all my hammocks now. So easy, and less to keep up with.I find I would rather simplify things.
Last edited by uncle_ray_ray; 03-30-2012 at 07:07.
Back to rings for me. Whoopies just require so much more tree gap. I know there are ways around that, but then you kind of give up some adjustability in close quarters. Just made sense to go back to the rings. Its not that I couldnt find a place to hang, but I couldn't as easilty hang right where I wanted.
Not to mention you miss those wonderful times where your trees are almost the same distance apart as the night before. You clip to tree1, walk right to tree2, clip and be done
I love my adjustable webbing as its easy, fast to setup, keeps tighter hang spots in play (as old gringo mentioned), never moves or slides on me, and limits the number of bits and pieces.
Ever heard whoopies popping in the night? I have, might have been poor milking, but I could swear I was a few inches higher last night?!... lol.
Ah well, HYOH.
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