I'm wondering what modifications you have made, or what special changes you have had made to your tarp and hammock that have improved your hanging experience?
I'm wondering what modifications you have made, or what special changes you have had made to your tarp and hammock that have improved your hanging experience?
I added little loops along the edge of my Hammock, so that I can better attach the UQ. Now you can go buy UQ hooks & just sew them on.
Changed out all the various gathered end attachment lines and just use a Whoopie sling on the ends
The best thing I did for my tarp was the outside pole mod. It made it from a simple tarp to a 1 bedroom apartment. There were other little things here and there..most of them titanium and of course made in the USA..but the pole mod was the single best thing that improved my in-the-hammock experience. The others were more ease of set up.
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The "knotty Mod" on my hammock. I am a card carrying member of "I Hate The Floppy Sides Club". A Knotty Mod tightens the sides but leaves them stretchy and also creates a type of foot box to help keep your top insulation from sliding up and over the edge. Pretty simple mod too.
I added lineloc's to my tarp.
At about 9:35 in the video below:
--Peter
Tarp - Pawn bags to manage the side ties out lines. Mini Line Locs for adjusting the side tie out lines. Dutchware tarp Flyz for the ridge line tie outs.
Hammock - Webbing and cinch buckle suspension. I just finished a "knotty mod" to lessen the floppy fabric on my very wide hammock.
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I'm new to hammocking, but I've done the "knotty mod"...it's been great! I added one at the head and one at the foot. It's taken care of the floppy sides and aided in keeping both my quilt and pillow inside of the hammock.
Last edited by outdoorames; 02-18-2015 at 10:57.
For my zipper bug net hammocks I added zipper pulls inside and out with bright orange or green cord to make it easier to find the zippers. For my hammocks that have a structural ridge line, I add 2 or 3 loops of Zing It prussiked around the ridge line. I hang my glasses and other small stuff thru the loop and push to the front of the hammock so it is out of my way but still easy to reach when needed.
I am still 18 but with 52 years of experience !
Tarp Flyz! Nothing worse than a sudden downpour when the weather calls for ZERO chance of rain. Tarp Flyz make for an easy way to get your tarp up FAST and then adjust it from underneath it as needed without getting drenched.
I had cuben doors sewed on my tarp, and had a beer can holder sewed on my hammock! When hiking, its typically not holding a beer can, but is very handy for holding stuff near my head, like a watch with alarm.
"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe... ?"
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