whoopie slings love them or hate them.

[Alpine Dad]

I switched to whoopie slings and tree straps simply because of sap and rain. Now I can easily separate my WBBB from my suspension and pack everything in their own bag. The hammock and quilts go into a dry bag in the bottom of my backpack while the suspension go into a ziplock bag in an outside pocket. I find the weight savings to be insignificant even when using Dutch's whoopie hooks - my larger tree straps do contribute to this but I seem to have larger trees where I hike and all are pine.

Cheers

[cm1021]

I knew I would love them from the first time I looked at them. THey make everything so simple and quick for me but that's just IMO

[Richard Tipton]

I use 12' straps and 4' whoopies. Never had a problem.......yet.

[neo]

neo.....I've been fighting the whoopie sling battle for quite a while but am in the process of swapping over to them now that I'm looking at backpacking. They are a cool set up but the only thing I don't like is trying to make adjustments when the hammock has the quilts on/in it. I hope that once the whoopies get some use to them that they may loosen up a bit and make adjustments easier.

What hammock set up did you go with on your new rig???

my new modular dd jungle hammock come with whoopiesneo

http://www.ddhammocks.com/product/dd_jungle_hammock

http://www.ddhammocks.com/images/pro...-info-page.jpg

[KaiserSosa]

Shug uses whoopies,...so that settles it

WWSD

[bccarlso]

Whoopies and sinch straps look nice, but question for those who have tried both (as I am looking to pick up one or the other) - here in rainy Washington, would the whoopies be an improvement over the straps as far as absorbing water that may run down the line into the hammock? Or should there be no real difference?

[neo]

[QUOTE=leeinmemphis;973658]neo.....I've been fighting the whoopie sling battle for quite a while but am in the process of swapping over to them now that I'm looking at backpacking. They are a cool set up but the only thing I don't like is trying to make adjustments when the hammock has the quilts on/in it. I hope that once the whoopies get some use to them that they may loosen up a bit and make adjustments easier.

What hammock set up did you go with on your new rig???

a short video of my dd modular jungle hammock with my jarbridge river uq and my wilderness logics big daddy 12 tarp on bear islandneo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUipR_6Mez0