The TurtleDog stand

**CamRuns** · 05-02-2015, 18:31

Originally Posted by ravenmoon

Nice job on your new stand.

I just finish mine to Attachment 107936

How'd you set your tarp

**Xtrm tj** · 05-02-2015, 20:09

Originally Posted by ravenmoon

Nice job on your new stand.

I just finish mine to Attachment 107936

What's your length on your top rail?

**gmcttr** · 05-02-2015, 21:09

Originally Posted by Swanski

Just made my first turtlelady stand. So simple. Just lashed 2x2's and hung a fence top rail from loops...

Fixed it for you.

The lashing makes it a turtlelady stand

....the predecessor to the Turtledog stand...and still the way I make them. I never understood why everyone wanted to add the complexity of construction, weight and cost of using hinges and hardware.

**hppyfngy** · 05-03-2015, 09:01

Originally Posted by gmcttr

Fixed it for you.

The lashing makes it a turtlelady stand

....the predecessor to the Turtledog stand...and still the way I make them. I never understood why everyone wanted to add the complexity of construction, weight and cost of using hinges and hardware.

Please don't feel bad. Just because you don't understand something doesn't make you dumb, no matter what everyone says.

**ravenmoon** · 05-03-2015, 11:11

My ridgepole is 15 feet long . The trap is tied the the loops the ridgepole is haning from untill someone can show me a better way to do it

**CamRuns** · 05-10-2015, 15:33

Messed around with my tarp set up and took a few pics.

**Frank1960** · 05-10-2015, 16:58

Ok I want to make one of these but have a couple of questions. I have a 10' hammock I got from Dutch and only have a little over 12' from wall to wall to setup one of these. Now the questions what is the minimum I have to open the legs of the tripod to keep it from fall over and can I slide the tripods in more on the ridge pole so they fit in the space needed to hang the hammock. Oops another question do I need some sort of underquilt like a pluq I think it is called? Thanks in advanced

**Kamper Kurt** · 05-10-2015, 19:27

Why do you need the metal pipe to span the two tripods? Couldn't the hammock be suspended directly from the tripod?

**CamRuns** · 05-10-2015, 20:00

Originally Posted by Kamper Kurt

Why do you need the metal pipe to span the two tripods? Couldn't the hammock be suspended directly from the tripod?

If you didn't have the pipe then you would pull the tripods in and they'd collapse. Hanging on the pipe pulls the force down instead of inward

**Kamper Kurt** · 05-11-2015, 00:15

Originally Posted by CamRuns

If you didn't have the pipe then you would pull the tripods in and they'd collapse. Hanging on the pipe pulls the force down instead of inward

I will have to try to figure out the physics behind it, but I guess that even pointing the odd leg in instead of out the tripod would have to be much larger to not tip. Wondering if there is a way to make it lighter.
1. Use an anchor to the outside, but that would take up more space.
2. With that third leg pointing to the outside, hang the hammock from that leg instead of the center.

I am sure that people have already tried several variations and that this is a great setup....just can't help but think it through though.