First hang success!

[Toppest]

My eldorado got here! First time ever laying in a hammock. So comfortable, love it. Still need to work on getting the setup perfected, but very happy with first try. Didn't bother setting up the face guyline cause of all the snow. Have titanium toggles coming in the mail, stakes were a little small. Need to also working putting less tension on the tree straps. Can I tie the whoopie sling tail to my suspension to work as a drip line?

Now on to buying my quilts and tarp.

Tips and tricks greatly appreciated

[SilvrSurfr]

What is a face guyline? Never heard of it.

[cmc4free]

You can half-hitch or similar the tail end of the whoopie sling to the hammock CL to act as a drip line. The drip line should be underneath your tarp. If you find the whoopie tail isn't doing well enough on it's own, simply girth-hitch a short length of just about any cordage farther down on the hammock CL, below the whoopie tail.

[CLSR--000]

I don't very often setup of this bugnet pullouts in my eldorado. The netting seems to be far enough off my face as is.

[Papatechie]

What is a face guyline? Never heard of it.

I think toppest is referring to the net pull outs that you stake to ground to keep off of face.

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[Toppest]

I think toppest is referring to the net pull outs that you stake to ground to keep off of face.

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That's correct, wasn't sure what to call them, sorry about the confusion.

[Toppest]

You can half-hitch or similar the tail end of the whoopie sling to the hammock CL to act as a drip line. The drip line should be underneath your tarp. If you find the whoopie tail isn't doing well enough on it's own, simply girth-hitch a short length of just about any cordage farther down on the hammock CL, below the whoopie tail.

Good to know, thank you

[wbJohn]

I saw a test of drip lines and it seems cotton line is best. It also showed that a simple cotton line tied onto the suspension under the tarp was more effective than rings or biners used as water breaks.

[cmc4free]

Cotton twine or the like will absorb water more readily than something like paracord or Zing-it, and certainly more readily than hardware which won't absorb it at all. That absorption probably makes the water more likely to follow the path down the drip line, rather than racing past it. I wonder if at some level of torrential downpour, the cotton would be fully saturated and unable to shed water faster than the rate of new water coming in - at which point the performance of different drip line materials might be more equalized.

But I agree with your point - cotton is best.

[jtkratzer]

I set up the first time Super Bowl Sunday, but too cold to sleep in it until the quilts arrive.