Originally Posted by
Youngblood
The sag angle can vary, the 31 degrees is a target used to set the geometry. You can leave the tie off height alone and adjust the suspension length to get the hammock body at an acceptable height above the terrain. If you do that and the sag angle is not within an acceptable range, then you can adjust the tie off height. Of course depending on your suspension system and how it is attached, adjusting the tie off height may be easier to adjust or the suspension length may be easier or they may be about the same.
There are several levels to this issue. There is getting it in the ball park, so to speak, and there is getting it fine tuned, or just right. I'm under the impression that some folks routinely start off tying off the hammock on the low side and have a tough time getting things in the ball park. I suspect that a lot of those folks don't have a good understanding of the geometry, forces and stretch involved (because if they did they wouldn't do it that way), could care less about that, and may never understand that.
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