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    HH whoopie slings using the fly on hammock suspension?

    I have been looking for a better suspension setup (right now using a bowline knot about 18" from the end of the hammock with a biner in it, attached to Python straps), and I wanted to start by replacing my HH suspension with whoopie slings.

    http://shop.whoopieslings.com/Whoopi...ocks-AWSHH.htm

    These look good, but as they mention, my hammock is one of the ones with a loop of webbing on the end, not the one/two holes, and so they say that I can just use their normal whoopie slings, BUT I'd have to attach my fly separately.

    I don't want to do that (all good reasons to do it aside, I'm lazy and like having it all wrapped in one snake skin). I don't really see WHY I could use the fly-on-hammock suspension with the previous version but not this one. Any ideas?

    For reference, here's the photo of the new webbing end that is supposedly incompatible with the HH-specific whoopies (photo stolen from Seshan's post last June)


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    Do you not get a lot of sag on your tarp having it on the same suspension line as the HH?

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    Nope - I'm not exactly sure how I managed it (just been hanging one season, so still relatively new), but it stays taut all night. Neither of these photos are when I'm laying in it, but my friend clearly had some tarp issues in the morning (he was on his first hang this trip, and I subsequently helped him fix it).




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    I put some whoopies on my HH and I hang my tarp from the suspension just as if I had the original suspension. Works fine. The clips are easy to remove and put on your amsteel.

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    How long is the lead on your whoopies?

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    I have some 15 footers. I guess I should clarify that my clip is attached on the adjustable part.

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    Once I switched my HH over to Whoopie Slings, that was the end of the tarp that came with it "working well". I was already wanting to get another Tarp anyhow but since then I have spend lots of nights concerned about bad weather!

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    I had changed out to the HH hex tarp after about 6 hangs due to the room under the hammock and from the blowing rain and wind. However, I still attach the tarp to the hammock using the hooks provided before running the snake skins down and having all cared for, though I do unhook the tarp when it is set-up.

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    Thanks, guys! After all of this advice, sounds like I'm going to go with a superfly on a CRL, whoopies, and get a "Lazy Slug Tube" so I can leave all of my insulation setup and just cram the whole contraption in my pack (probably leave the tarp on the outside.) It'll weigh a bit more (mostly because of the superfly, the whoopies more than account for the LST weight) but it'll be a better setup and easier to put up.

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    Looking at this, I think you may have misunderstood what whoopieslings.com told you.
    You can use standard whoops with that setup. But theres no reason you couldn't use HH style whoops.
    The only difference is more length between the hammock and the bury. Your ideal would be something between standard and the usual HH whoops, which I'm sure you could arrange with them.

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