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I used the ring buckle system and an HH for a while, before changing over to lower bulk/lighter weight cord. But I can have a go at some of your questions.



I rolled up the extra in a flat...

ring buckles have an advantage that you can convert your web-based suspension to a lightweight rope-based suspension, keep the rings as is, and have it be just as easily adjustable (using a Garda...

First thread the snakeskin onto the rope and push all the way to the hammock. Then tie the HH line to the rings using a round turn with two half hitches a couple of feet out from the wrapping. Coil...

If I were you I'd worry about those figure-9 thread guys. They aim to put the ring buckles out of business!

I sure hope when the JRB Bridge is sighted again, someone is there with a camera taking...

is the idea,
hammock body -> suspension rope -> 4' webbing with rings -> 10' webbing -> tree ?

Maybe the suspension rope is short, just enough to grab the hammock end (or emerge from it, in the...

being a gearhead, I have them all (except the hitchcraft do-dad). Measured to 0.1 ounce on a postal scale.

1 cc buckle : 1 oz.
2 SMC descender rings : 0.8 oz.
1 Large (150# rated) figure-9...

So there you go, different strokes for different folks, and all. I had a friend in college studying biology. She had pasted up on her wardrobe these complicated diagrams of biological systems. I...

I'm hurt, the 1/2 you skip is more boring than work? :( Ouch!

you will have learned by now to approach those posts backwards, kind of like reading Hebrew. ;) More often than not, our first runs...

except she can see my sewing :(

Grizz

Well shoot, why not? I used a sliderule in high school, my wifi signal gets to the yard...



ah, but I'm guessing you don't have a significant other who asks "Tell me again why you don't want...

point taken. I am but a neophyte at this hammocking thing. I can yet enumerate the number of nights I've slept in a hammock on my fingers and toes, and still could if a limb were amputated.
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Angrysparrow--are you doing this with a non-removeable ridgeline? For better or worse, my modus operandi with my HH is to leave no sag except what the ridgeline (under considerable tension it seems)...

You're missing nothing. Thanks for bringing this out.

I multi-wrap the webbing around the tree when I can. I've not left much play between biner and webbing though, out of a concern (misplaced?)...

It's not been obvious to me from the discussion about CC buckles that they would be any easier to loosen under the kind of tension I'm seeing. I know that I can, with effort, loosen a ring buckle by...

The received wisdom in this thread is that to simplify loosening up the webbing from the rings when packing up, you can
a) pull the standing end of the webbing off to the side to loosen, or
b)...

Perhaps what I do is what you describe as coiling it like a climbing rope. Coil it, save 1.5 - 2 feet to wrap it, then tuck the end into a coil and tighten it down by pulling (from the other side of...

Dear diary : stock HH snakeskins narrow down to a width that inhibits passage of the rings. When they are threaded onto the webbing from the tree side the hammock can be covered by them, but with...

Given that the AirCore fits twice through the holes in the HH body, doubling up made a certain amount of sense. I'm not a mechanical engineer but I imagine that the double line supports a higher...

I've followed this thread with a lot of interest. My basic problem is that the rope supplied on my HH is 1600 lb test polyester, very stiff, and not suitable for attaching to the rings.

I have...