The TurtleDog stand

[gmcttr]

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MY set up is just like the pic in post 1777 above, except I am using straps not rope to hang from. That's why I don't understand bow.

If your straps are up against the eyebolts like in the photo, there shouldn't be any significant bowing. It may bow up a couple of inches from rest, but that should be all.

Photos would help.

[JoshuaTrees]

Great two nights worth of sleep...

Have you got a TV or a heated blanket in there with you? Just wondering what the extension cord is for.

Ha, that's the first thing I thought when I saw that picture.
maybe it's a laptop.
which can conveniently be used as a TV or heated blanket.

[1-Hung-Low]

https://www.hammockforums.net/galler...1135medium.jpg

I use a system similar to the picture above:
Hinge – shackle – S-hook, 9” length of 3/16”chain – S-hook to eye bolt on ridgepole.
Lets me adjust for correct height of hammock along with angle. I just move up or down the chain to get the correct combination. Can also hang the foot end higher using the chain.

[xtemplarx]

I have a question on the weight-carrying capability of these stands. I built a standard system (my photos are on thread page 176 or 177), leaving the 2x's at their full 8 foot length. I have a 10.5' top rail.

I know my hardware is up to the task, but not sure about the system as a whole! I'm fine in it by myself, but we're toying around with my wife and I in a doublehang (bunkbed-style, 2 hammocks). We got in it that way and it seemed fine, but not sure if I'm pushing my luck.

Thoughts?

[dkurfiss]

I have a question on the weight-carrying capability of these stands. I built a standard system (my photos are on thread page 176 or 177), leaving the 2x's at their full 8 foot length. I have a 10.5' top rail.

I know my hardware is up to the task, but not sure about the system as a whole! I'm fine in it by myself, but we're toying around with my wife and I in a doublehang (bunkbed-style, 2 hammocks). We got in it that way and it seemed fine, but not sure if I'm pushing my luck.

Thoughts?

All I can say is my brother, who runs well over 320lb and probably close to 350lb, sleeps using my HH and my TD Stand every time he comes to visit which is about once a month and he stays 3 nights (LD truck driver so he has no home of his own). He has done that ever since I got mine which is over 6 months now. All I have to do is remind him to tighten the bolts and he is good.

[olddog]

I've had my granddaughter in the hammock with me, may be a total of 275#, with no problems. This is a different twist and probably questionable though interesting. Would love to see some pictures of the setup. As far as I know there have been no test to maximum loading but I believe that you should at least go with 2x4s for the legs. If it does fail and no one gets hurt it should make for some good laughs.

[hppyfngy]

I have a question on the weight-carrying capability of these stands. I built a standard system (my photos are on thread page 176 or 177), leaving the 2x's at their full 8 foot length. I have a 10.5' top rail.

I know my hardware is up to the task, but not sure about the system as a whole! I'm fine in it by myself, but we're toying around with my wife and I in a doublehang (bunkbed-style, 2 hammocks). We got in it that way and it seemed fine, but not sure if I'm pushing my luck.

Thoughts?

I have seen my brother in law and his son sitting (uncomfortably...) in one at the same time. They must total #475.
I think the stand can handle it, but that's a whole different set of risk factors.

I also note that your lumber isn't quite as "clear" as I'd prefer to see. Don't know how prominent the knots are, but if one goes, you may not get a lot of warning. (I also don't see "spread limiters" on your tripods. I'd seriously think about that.)

Depending on what you need it for, I think I'd consider building a heavier duty model, like with 2x3" lumber, or making a third tripod and hanging "heads together," on two different rails.

Whatever you do, if you get a bunk bed hang to work, take pictures!

And if you try it, please let her have the top bunk... Seriously, would you rather catch her or land on her? You decide...

[xtemplarx]

I also note that your lumber isn't quite as "clear" as I'd prefer to see. Don't know how prominent the knots are, but if one goes, you may not get a lot of warning. (I also don't see "spread limiters" on your tripods. I'd seriously think about that.)

Depending on what you need it for, I think I'd consider building a heavier duty model, like with 2x3" lumber, or making a third tripod and hanging "heads together," on two different rails.

Whatever you do, if you get a bunk bed hang to work, take pictures!

And if you try it, please let her have the top bunk... Seriously, would you rather catch her or land on her? You decide...

Sadly, those boards were as clear as I could find in the massive stack. I did end up adding the spread limiting paracord after these shots were taken. They limit the spread between feet to five feet (remembering that the 2x's are their full 8 feet, I didn't think that too excessive). I wouldn't have felt too horribly safe without'em. Dry, flat yard is one thing. A little bit of rain and voila, nothing's as stable as you once thought!

As for who gets the top bunk, that's always her. She's 5'1" tall, so getting her up there is humorous every time.

[hppyfngy]

Sadly, those boards were as clear as I could find in the massive stack.

This is why I try to steer folks toward a real lumberyard and not Lowes or Home Depot.

I go to my local lumberyard and ask for "clear or better" 2x2's and I don't even have to look through the pile. Every one is perfect. I think they are less than a buck more per.

Pictures!!!

[Brute1100]

Have you got a TV or a heated blanket in there with you? Just wondering what the extension cord is for.

Actually it was to charge my phone... I was watching Netflix while chilling... What I ended up doing was wrapping it up from the left side of the picture around the ridge pole, and then connected my charger and voila I was in business...