RE Tree Huggers

**NCPatrick** · 03-27-2008, 10:12

Originally Posted by headchange4u

I know that .2oz isn't a big deal, but it's still not the advertised weight.

Not a big deal? That's 5.66990463 grams!!!

**Youngblood** · 03-27-2008, 10:17

I'm not sure how accurate all these scales are either. I have spring loaded scales for weighing your body weight that have digital readouts and ones that just have a dial. I also have one that uses a balance beam but you have to interpolate the reading. The fact that the digital readout has all those digits doesn't make those digits accurate, I trust the balance beam scales.

**photomankc** · 03-27-2008, 10:45

I use a digital 5Lb postal scale for most of my weight measurements and it is accurate enough that it agrees within .1 once of what my reloading scale check-weights come out to. The digital bathroom scales have been worthless. Half the time they can't agree reading-to-reading on my weight.

**headchange4u** · 03-27-2008, 10:58

Originally Posted by Youngblood

I'm not sure how accurate all these scales are either. I have spring loaded scales for weighing your body weight that have digital readouts and ones that just have a dial. I also have one that uses a balance beam but you have to interpolate the reading. The fact that the digital readout has all those digits doesn't make those digits accurate, I trust the balance beam scales.

I think my scales are fairly accurate. They were advertised at .1oz accuracy when I bought them, and a nickel shows to weigh 5 grams. I would like to have a set of small weights used to calibrate scales and really check it out over a range of weights.

**jaiden** · 03-27-2008, 18:42

Why not a stack of nickels?

**boarstone** · 04-12-2008, 11:03

Here's my 2 cents: I hammock when I hike and I have found that for a rugged and sturdy webbing, I looked at my horse training days and use a 25' lunge line cut and sewn for each end with enough to loop around an average tree, up to twice around if needed.

**stoikurt** · 04-12-2008, 14:41

Welcome boarstone. So what type of material is lunge line made out of? And what is the width, weight, etc?

**riverkeeper** · 04-19-2008, 03:03

I got loop fray so soon started with small wire Black Diamond biners sold by REI with the key chain types marked something like " Not load bearing". About 3 bucks each ... no probs ever.

**NCPatrick** · 04-24-2008, 08:52

You pays your money, and you takes your chances. I'm going to stick with load bearing 'biners myself. I do use one of those Black Diamond biners for my adjustable ridgeline though.