Take a piece of cord, webbing, a shoelace or whatever, wrap it around your wrist, take both ends in one hand and then squeeze it tight, without pulling.
There is now pressure on your skin, without...
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Take a piece of cord, webbing, a shoelace or whatever, wrap it around your wrist, take both ends in one hand and then squeeze it tight, without pulling.
There is now pressure on your skin, without...
@hk2001: next time you talk to the professors, could you please ask how they feel about the damage that can be done by shear stress rather than by pressure? Can trees have blisters? And if so, would...
The illustrations eat up a lot of time, so not even the first posting in the thread is complete yet, but there is a start here.
LOL
I don't exactly picture myself as a "physics guru", but I'll try to present this as clearly as I'm capable to.
I'll put it in a separate thread tonight, but what it cooks down to is that...
Thank you for starting my day with a big smile on my face. :laugh:
Please take a look at the attachment and do your math again.
The position on the tree could be held pretty well with a double-wrap basket hitch also.
Still a lot more friendly on cordage and tree.
As shown in the attachment, the longitudinal component of the strain in straps around a tree (Ft,long) equals half the hammock load (Fh) regardless of the angle between the strap surrounding the tree...