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I'm wondering how you tension that garda hitch. I'd think you'd pull on the slack end, but is there a specific direction you should pull?

You can also use 2 hiking poles if they are sturdy enough for your weight. Simply slip the wrist strap of each pole over the handle of the other pole, then spread the bottoms. If they're adjustable...

What's the primary knot you use for that? I was thinking it's something similar to a sheet bend, but I'm not sure.

Here it is.

http://www.seattlefabrics.com/nylons.html#1.3%20oz%20Reflective

A bit on the pricey side though.

You can also use the screw cap from a soda bottle in place of these, though having patches of some other material inbetween the cap and your hammock would probably be a good idea. Kind of the way...

While weight might be one concern. There's another one that's almost as important maybe more to my mind. Memory foam gets really hard when it's cold. Mattresses made of this, while being moved in...

Both of the hammocks I made so far as tests have been whipped, not knotted.

The doubled material one is likely stronger, and somewhat redundant. When it's under tension each is supporting half...

Yeah, I'm a little wary of doing something in the main body where I'm going to be laying, but along the edges it only really takes alot of stress when you're getting in or out. If I put a hennesy...

For reference I currently use 1.9 ripstop nylon dwr, 11' long, 60" wide. I weigh about 280lb. There has been no evidence of stretch or stress tears in the 6 weeks I've been using the hammock on a...

nah, I won't be cutting anything. I'll be folding it back on itself like an inch or so in a kind of Z shape. The size of the dart will end up being a triangle about 1inch wide and 3-4 inches long. ...

Yep, the method I'm using you can rewhip it as well. And the loops at the end make it easy to pull tight again without using the plyers.

I'm playing around with adding 2 - 4, 3-4inch darts where the tie outs go for an asym hammock. This would effectively take up some of the slack in the edges of the hammock and add some reinforcement...

I've been experimenting with different whipping techniques, and integrating suspension into the whipping itself. I know about the HH technique, and wanted something a little simpler. One that I've...

I saw somewhere a material that was ripstop nylon, I don't remember if it was coated or not, but it was white/silver on one side, and black on the other side. the black would be used as the lower...

Has anyone tried those really strong small magnets? I've seen them used to make a removable screen door before, easy to open and close because it snaps back together when it swings close to each...

There's this thing. The Sealtite(tm) that you can get at Wal-Mart. It's supposed to be used to reseal things like bags of chips/cereal and such.

I picked one up and was messing around with it. ...

The only additional knots would be a stopper knot at each end of the ridgeline. And since he's got to have some kind of loops there for the 'biners to attach to those stopper knots would be taking...

I'm wondering. Couldn't you just use a stopper knot and a larks head to attach the ridgeline? A stopper knot on the ridgeline with a larkshead on the loop thingie, similar to how Jeff does his...