I'm surprised that no one has mentioned speed. I can have my hammock and tarp up in half the time my tent-bound friends set up theirs. Plus my set up elicits none of the grunts or growls that come...
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned speed. I can have my hammock and tarp up in half the time my tent-bound friends set up theirs. Plus my set up elicits none of the grunts or growls that come...
Derek really gets it right about the benefits of all-in-one. When I camp in an ENO or in a DIY rig, people are interested and ask me about 'em. When I sleep in my Hennessy, they're fascinated. I...
We share your excitement in your new TQ and UQ: you'll get some good use. I just introduced my brother-in-law to the joys of hammock camping earlier this week up Little Cottonwood Canyon (where,...
Using only a cheap blue CCF pad I have been able to sleep down into the 40s. When I tried it in the 30s I had to give it up: that was a bad, bad night. Seriously, wickedly bad.
I'm a pretty big...
When I lived in the midwest I didn't bring a pad with me, but now I'm living in the Rocky Mountains I do. Trees are harder to come by on many hikes, and the possibility of going to ground is too...
Also, though I have only thirty posts, I have been camping in hammocks since shortly after I registered for this forum in 2007: many, many nights in a hammock and only one tree ripped out by the...
The key is that I was on the bank of a stream. As I recall, some heavy-ish rains had eroded the bank somewhat and left the roots semi-exposed on the lee side. At least, that's what my forensic...
I mentioned it once before, but I had a very, very close call a couple of years ago. I had pitched my tent after dark next to a little stream: it was a nice enough spot from what I could tell. I was...
They had been asking for a while, but my schedule didn't have any room for any DIY projects. Still doesn't. But I decided to be the good dad and make a couple of bedroom hammocks for my teenage sons....
If you're not worrying about the weight for something like the underbelly you link to, then you could use just about anything. I've jury-rigged up a few using a variety of materials (though mostly...
I'm a father of two Boy Scouts and have been on most of their campouts for the past two years, always in my hammock. The boys find it something of a curiosity, but none have wanted to jump in--not...
I'm with Trooper on this. Ray Mears' system uses knots that are simple to tie and are all slipped, so in the morning it takes just a tug to get 'em down. There's no hardware to fail, there are no...
Great idea, Slowhike: I think I could have avoided my near-catastrophe had I simply tied the first anchor-tree to another one right next to it as a secondary precaution. That's a great tip for...
Friday night I went out with my son's scout troop for a quick overnighter. While the boys pitched their crappy tents on the soggy grass, I set up my HH in the trees by the creek (effectively blocking...
I use a double sheet bend on my support tie-out and it works great (connecting cord to webbing). I untie it easily, partly because I do the second loop slip-knot style. There's a term for that, but...
If you note the technique that headchange describes earlier in this thread is his own; it is not the same as a Hennessy roll. To get the real goods, check out Wilsonbmw's great reverse engineer of a...
I was playing with a ridgeline on my home-made TerceiroVisionSupraCloneMax and, just for kicks, intentionally cut my own ridgeline while laying in it. It was under a lot of pressure, but except for a...
Since re-rolling and re-whipping costs nothing and can't make it worse, you're silly for not trying that first. I personally don't like Headchange's method and much prefer the Risk/Hennessy method....
I have a cheap Energizer headlamp I bought from Target or WallyWorld for about ten bucks. It uses 3 AAA batteries, so it's slightly heavy-ish (heavier than the awesome little e+), but I love that...
+1 on the double sheet bend. It's strong, quick, easy, difficult-to-get-wrong, pretty easy to untie and relatively quick to adjust. I also find it one of the most elegant of knots, which is itself a...
One illuminating comment in Headchange's tutorial is that he re-did his whipping something like twelve times before he was satisfied.
Don't like it? Try it again. And again. And again. Luckily,...
If money is no object, I'd suggest buying two hammocks: one for learning, and one for racing.
To expand on that: in order to become an expert in a month, I'd want as much practice as possible. I...
I'd love a diagram. Despite my literary strengths (I'm a PhD candidate in English literature), I'm still crap and translating physical descriptions into anything I can wrap my mind around.
So,...
I think this is a great idea. Rather than letting some ground-sleeping schmo buy it, have someone in the forum buys it and then passes it along at cost to someone who doesn't have access to cheap...
Well, this is embarrassing. You remember how I said I couldn't find one, and that my wife said she threw them out? Well, I guess that was only half true. She did throw one out, the other one I found....
Yup. The bowline is a good knot, but it's also very easy to screw up. I spent decades tying it wrong (with no failures, luckily). The figure-8 on a bight is similarly strong, almost impossible to...
I'm all for knots in my webbing. I don't like a bowline with webbing, however, and much prefer a figure-8-on-a-bight.
Knots are easily field-repairable, don't damage the webbing, and are really,...
Whoops. I went to get the Neat Sheet and my lovely wife informed me that she'd tossed them out a few months ago (something to do with a diaper explosion. Sounded like a good rationale to me) and my...
I'd say it only makes sense if you're using a HH-style attached bug net. If you've got a Speer-style, then I don't see it being worthwhile.
I tried Headchange's technique of the knotted cord...
You've inspired me to do a little test. I'm taking a couple of kids out for their first backpacking this weekend, and so, depending on the fear-quotient at night, I may be sleeping as a Degraded...
The double sheet bend is not a knot I'd considered, but I gave it a shot this afternoon and it seems surprisingly secure. I think I might give it an overnight try soon.
It's so fast and simple to...
I bought a set of straps from Harbor Freight today: 1"x12'. They were $3.99. I had hoped to get the ratchet ones (on sale for something like ten bucks for four of them) but they were sold out.
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Now that you say that, it seems completely obvious. Good info; thanks.
I did use a lark's head, but I just used 1/2" climbing rope rather than a smaller-diameter cord. I think the larger rope might have had less "bite" and caused the slip.
I'm still fiddling with the...
So I thought I'd try to make a trapezoidal asym, based on Hammock Engineer's design. His directions for whipping were a little spotty (as in "follow what Arkwater did"), and so I tried my best to...
I don't mean to gloat, but I did find eighteen yards of silnylon at my local Walmart yesterday. I was a little dubious at first -- couldn't believe that I would actually be one of the lucky ones --...