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    Arrow Who say's that you can't sew rope?

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    Stitched cords and rope. Available now at Readystrap.com

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    I like it! Neat toy you got there! Amazing how many things are now programmable. Sometimes technology just blows me away!

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    Order request sent. But I need your advice....What size cord would be the best to larks head through the end channel of a double wide hammock for a 300 lb man, the 6mm?
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    Quote Originally Posted by L.D. Cakes View Post
    Order request sent. But I need your advice....What size cord would be the best to larks head through the end channel of a double wide hammock for a 300 lb man, the 6mm?
    Hi LD! Welp, You can't go wrong with the 6mm thats for sure. I'm sure 6mm will carry a couple thousand pounds.
    Last edited by GT; 07-20-2013 at 14:20.

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    Quote Originally Posted by richtorfla View Post
    I like it! Neat toy you got there! Amazing how many things are now programmable. Sometimes technology just blows me away!
    Oh, that isn't mine. Wish it was, maybe someday. I use a global industrial zigzag with a few homemade jigs. You can't just stitch round stuff on a regular machine.
    It rolls around and the foot flattens it out too. So you have to make a jig for each thickness of cord. What it amounts to is a long thin bar tack going one way and a wider one going back over the other way. Fun Stuff!

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    OK, What I'm planning on doing is larks heading the continuous loop through the end channel of the hammock and clipping the carabiner on it that's connected to those lock & load cinch buckle belts he's already using with tree straps.

    If you're measuring the loops circumference I think 12" should be good. Unless you think I can get by with less.

    The hammock is 1.9 ripstop 72" wide.
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    Quote Originally Posted by L.D. Cakes View Post
    OK, What I'm planning on doing is larks heading the continuous loop through the end channel of the hammock and clipping the carabiner on it that's connected to those lock & load cinch buckle belts he's already using with tree straps.

    If you're measuring the loops circumference I think 12" should be good. Unless you think I can get by with less.

    The hammock is 1.9 ripstop 72" wide.
    What I do with my gathered ends is just lace a piece of 6mm thru the channel. Then I pull both ends of the 6mm cords until the end of the hammock is tightened up, and tie a double fisherman's knot as close as possible.



    It leaves me with about a 3" loop to hook my biner into.
    I'm not sure how to use a larks head there without it slipping back into the channel when knot (pun) in use. You know more about that than I do.



    I'll see if I can find a picture of a larks head in use on the end of a hammock so that I can get an idea of what it does.

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    Yes I used a double fisherman's knot on the last hammock I made for him and it works just fine. Ha! And he even trusted my knot tying ability, but only after he gave it a thorough inspection! A larks head gatheres the ends the same way as the line run through the channel with a knot does. The fixed loop end of a Whoopie Sling looped through the hammock channel and then back through it's self is basically the same principal.

    This time I thought I'd try a continuous loop on his new hammock I'm working on. I could make an Amsteel loop and do the same thing as some here have already done. But for the life of me I can't get him to trust Amsteel or I would simply put Whoopie Slings on it and be done! Your 6mm sewn climbing rope he knows and the stitch you use looks strong enough to convince him.

    The picture above in your first post where you have a continuous loop larks headed on a cinch buckle shows me that 6" would be too short for a hammock end channel. So doubling that length would probably do it at 12".
    Am I right, can anyone else chime in?
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    O boy! O boy! O boy!
    I get to make two 6mm x 12" continuous loops.

    Hmmmm. The wheel are turning already.
    How much Jim Bean should I drink before I get started?

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    Ha Ha Ha! My favorite! If I lived closer I'd bring the Beam.
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