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Velcro isn't really much of a weight savings over a smallish zipper, either. And much more of a pain to use IMO.

I've got a small unrated/light rated biner in the ridgeline of my HH ULB, and I've hung it in just about every imaginable configuration that way. Hanging from wider-spaced trees definitely puts more...

Looks great, man! Somebody should email those pix to Tom Hennessy... :p

That's one thing being a wuss didn't stop me from doing to my HH. Jeff has pix of the mod on my ULB in his report from Hot Springs last fall. Check it out - REALLY easy to do. Takes 5 minutes and...

From my experience DWR is much more breathable than it seems, so it should do fine for a hammock. I do tend to sweat quite a bit personally, even in the winter, so I'll likely stay away from it -...

What are you making the hammock out of? Just wondering since it sounds like you're making the skins out of the same stuff...

I didn't say there was NO tension, I said there was LESS tension than what you were describing. But I'm done arguing - I'm not doing a stress analysis on my ULB to prove this to you, and I'm not...

Well maybe what I'm noticing is due to my ULB being a bit to short for me. I dunno.

As far as the forces involved, almost all the force from your weight is distributed longitudinally along the...

When you get all the way diagonal, the bugnet IS under tension. Not a whole lot - it's got some extra material to it - but when your shoulder and knee are all the way into the tie-out corners, the...

I'd rather have something waterproof around my sleep system, rather than using the hammock as a kind of stuff sack. But I have thought about adding zippers or velcro to the sides of my DIY hammock...

Hmm....now that I reread, I think he's right. Lets you use both halves of the third zipper.

I was wondering - how are you planning on making both ends separable? I didn't think they made...

One zipper for each side is what I think he's saying, since the longest they have will only cover one side of the hammock. Then two zippers for hammock/bugnet, plus two more (only using one half on...

Speaking from my experience with my tarps, I have a somewhat different take. I'm not sure the reinforcement patches really have much to do with the shape - if I pull obliquely on the tie-outs on my...

Yeah...my homemades are 10' long and they work great for me with Jeff's design. If the Hennessy-style gets as flat as you say, though, I could probably go shorter than that on one of those. ...

Not bad at all! Nice looking, and right on par with the ULB for weight. Awesome!

As a side note, gee thanks for another project I ma have to try now....and that I wasn't even considering before!...