Oh the humanity!

[TFC Rick]

Ok peeps,
I am now ready to get a "real" suspension system. I understand there are as many choices for that as there are undershorts, and that they are as much a personal choice.

So, perhaps I can lean on the experience of my Florida based bretheren and ask......,"What works for you?". What kind of tree distance am I going to see?

I currently use 10-ish foot? tow straps larksheaded onto my stock biner. I have only hung in the same spot in my back yard or house. What is spooking me is remembering Islanders set up at the Florida hang. I swear his trees were like 30 feet apart(I'm sure my mind is exagerating but still).

Sould I just get some tri-glides and be done with it? Perhaps some rings?

I need a guiding hand here as it's difficult to justify new gear to the better half if I don't even know what to get!

Thanks in advance,
Rick

[TFC Rick]

By the way, after a mix up with the "Clymb" people, I am now the proud owner of a Noah's 16 (they sold out of the 12's and upgraded me for free). I have dubbed it the command center as it's the size of a West Palm condo unit. Not worrying about the weight, will I be able to find a spot to hang this thing with the kind of underbrush we have?

[mulligan918]

TFCRick, I just switched my ENO to whoopies and straps..love them. I have the system for JRB. They work like a charm.. 60" straps and 6' whoopies with dutch clips and biners. Only downside I see is that I still have to address the occasional large tree. My setup works really good at 15-18' between trees or it seems so to me. I'm in Mississippi so trees aren't a problem,so far anyway. Hope that helps.

[RePete]

The beauties to straps and whoopies is you can have them made any size you want. Whoopies are about as light as you can get and compact. I made my whoopies and they are way to long at 12.5' each. My straps are from AHE and are 7'. I also have a pair of 6' straps. I have had 1 time that the 7' were barely long enough. Your trees may be different than mine. Ill be making some new whoopies this spring but im just not sure how long I want them. Probably 8 or 10'.

[MAD777]

I have 6' whoopies with 5' of strap. The 5' strap will go around an 18" diameter tree, which also happens to be the largest tree I can wrap my arms around. I also carry a extra 3' length of amsteel with a fixed eye on each end to use as an extender, just in case. I've only used this once. If the trees are too far apart for this setup, then I can't reach high enough on the tree to hang the hammock high enough to keep it off the ground.

[mulligan918]

Yeah, I was looking at the extra amsteel loop.