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    No, but it may have snapped just to watch you fall again...
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    That explains the laughter.
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    Who'd a thunk ... Golf T's could be so much fun!

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    And I don't even play golf.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SGT Rock View Post
    And I don't even play golf.
    I quit playing golf when I found out my aptitude was more suited to driving the beer cart!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk-eye View Post
    ...my aptitude was more suited to driving the beer cart!
    I never seen a beer cart that wasn't driven by a pretty young lady...
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    I've dug and weighed and compared. The smallest, lightest graphite/carbon fiber shafts I can find are slightly larger in OD than my scout arrows and are so close in weight I think I'll stick with the aluminum and not risk shatter. The smallest aluminum ones in the box were much larger than these aluminum scout arrows, and the scout arrows look like they are made to be cheap practice arrows for kids - so I doubt they would ever show up in a remnants box. The thing is I see them in the store, but I cannot find them listed on Easton's site or anywhere else on the internet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slowhike View Post
    I bought a set from wal-mart to try as a (possible) cheap replacement for the round aluminum Easton stakes.
    I found they bend quite a bit easier than the Easton stakes. I bent them in the ground & also experimenting w/ this type of attachment for the hammock support.
    Quote Originally Posted by Boris Losdindawoods View Post
    To reinforce what NCPatrick said, the pic that Slowhike put up is not an illustration of how to use a toggle in a marlin spike hitch when suspending a hammock. All of the weight should be on the webbing ball formed by the hitch, not on the marlin spike itself and that pic makes it look like both lines are attached to the marlin spike. Sgt. Rock has an image that makes it really easy to see the correct way to do it.

    Boris
    You are correct. Good point to make clear.
    That was several years ago when I was experimenting w/ another way to adjust the hammock suspension at the end of the hammock.
    It worked but not great. It tended to go off center. And the point you made about putting the rope on the hammock cord & not the toggle is probably part of why it went off center & also why it bent the wal-mart knitting needle
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk-eye View Post
    And a failed experiment is not near as embarrassing as just plain old missing the hammock when you sit down! Been there ... dun that!
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    Quote Originally Posted by slowhike View Post
    You are correct. Good point to make clear.
    It took me forever to figure that out. I thought you guys had to be all smoking crack to trust your weight to a trail stick. I don't remember whose picture it was, but one day I saw a close-up that showed the amsteel snugged up on the webbing knot and the stick nowhere near the amsteel. To quote Shug, "the bell went boom".

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