Hello,
What are your favorite knots when hammock camping? Is there a particular place that you learned these knots and do you know of any web sites that discribe how to tie this knots?
Thanks
Happy Hammocking
Hello,
What are your favorite knots when hammock camping? Is there a particular place that you learned these knots and do you know of any web sites that discribe how to tie this knots?
Thanks
Happy Hammocking
Best knot tying site for learning: Animated Knots by Grog
Easiest weight learn as long as you follow along live while watching.
For my tarp, I'm always using the taut-line, bowline, and two half-hitches.
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Author and illustrator: The Ultimate Hang: An Illustrated Guide To Hammock Camping
+1 on Knots by Grog.
The Prusik and Klemhiest are big favorites for many uses as well, especially for tarp adjustment on a ridgeline. Of course, there's the Marlin Spike Hitch for Whoopie Sling users.
First off I want to say I love the bowline. I don't use it anywhere in my hammock rig, but I use it in multiple other apps. As for my hammock rig, I use Square knots for whipping the ends of the hammock. Slippery half-hitch and Prusik for my tarp ridge line. And Figure 8 follow-through on the top of my guy lines of my tarp, and Clove Hitch at the stakes. All of which i learned in boyscouts and refreshed when i went to the fire academy.
Where in the set up are you using the bowline? I pitched last night in a light rain then spent the night sleeping in a steady rain in the woods in front of my house and it was awesome. I used the continuous ridgeline with a taut-line hitch and two half hitches and thought it worked great.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear when I wrote that. I mostly use the bowline on my tarp guy lines, not in the ridge line.
I have elastic tarp tensioners on my tie-outs/guy lines and I use the bowline at the tie-out. I guess the other knot I use a lot is the clove hitch. The clove hitch is most often used on one side of the elastic and also when I use stakes.
I have an example illustration on tarp tensioners on my site and you can see where the bowline comes into play.
Author and illustrator: The Ultimate Hang: An Illustrated Guide To Hammock Camping
+1 on the animated knots. I watch them on youtube all the time. I'd have to say the trucker's hitch is my favorite hammocking knot.
with two m's, like "hammock."
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