I have cut down some old aluminum hiking poles. Those seem to work great. They may be a few grams more than the aluminum straw or the arrow shafts though.
I have cut down some old aluminum hiking poles. Those seem to work great. They may be a few grams more than the aluminum straw or the arrow shafts though.
FYI: here's what the infant stress test looks like: http://instagram.com/p/kzloqDwctj/
Toggles are still intact
(oh and, we've done this before, first few tries with a large bean bag under the hammock - just in case, so I'm not subjecting my offspring to anything dangerous, just sayin')
Still getting the hang of it
Found a trashed wind chime at one of my rental properties....the were pre-drilled and the best size at just over 3.5 inches, on the scale the are .31 oz. for the pair.
we always used a pencil in the shot gun as a plug....it may even work as a toggle...
I tried the carbon arrow shaft toggle recently and this is what happened. Close call - I didn't hit the ground. Likely due to the string I ran through the toggles. I guess I'm destined to be a trail stick guy from now on. Nothing to carry. Nothing to break. Nothing to lose.
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"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence." -Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
If you had to look more than 30 sec for a suitable stick on the ground I would be surprised. And if you hang on the knot and not on the loop side of the knot, you won't even have an issue with compression. Of course after saying all this I'm sure I'll be on my butt next time I hang.
A lotta ins... lotta outs... lotta what-have-you's
A section off a broken tent pole or arrow.
A suitable stick that I find laying around.
Pure Genius Shug.Originally Posted by Shug
I bought the smallest wooden dowel that wouldn’t keep me up nights worrying - even though the loop is ON THE KNOT, NOT ON THE DOWEL. I cut it to around 3 inch lengths and drilled a hole through them for a tether loop (because the dowels tended to “walk away”, kind of like Buck returning to the wild in Jack London’s, "Call of the Wild”). After all that, I decided I like a carabiner in the Marlin Spike better because the loop can’t slip off a closed biner.
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