Just finished my DIY Hammock Stand

**El_Mika** · 07-26-2014, 12:59

Here are the parts for my stand. Thickness of the individual boards is 26 mm expect the legs are 40 mm. So this is much lighter than the original one, design little changed from the SketchUp drawing I made.

I will assemble this tomorrow and I will get my hammock Tuesday

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**El_Mika** · 08-24-2014, 02:42

Here's my stand and hammock ready:

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**GDM** · 08-24-2014, 06:15

Wow, looks great! I'm jealous.. :-)

**dalecraven** · 09-02-2015, 14:29

After picking up my first hammock, a used Hennessy Expedition Asym, for an upcoming camping trip in mid October I have been researching and buying all kinds of accessories and upgrades. I decided that I NEEDED a stand to setup in my back yard so that I could test all these rigging and tarp methods to find out what I like the most. My research lead me to this thread and in my typical "Building over the top" fashion I have a new stand and design that I can share with you all.

All of the lumber is 2x6. I got a cedartone PT pine because it was on sale at my local Menards. I stretched the base to 120" and the uprights were cut at 90" so that I could use a longer (15") top blocking board to accommodate the main suspension eye bolts and the upper tarp ridge line eye bolts. I will get some dimensions of eye bolts above the ground and pictures later but here is a .PDF of the whole stand. I will also have individual drawings of each part to share after I make a few updates.

Hammock Stand.pdf

**DocRoc7962** · 09-12-2015, 09:17

How do you like this version? Very stabile.

**brianb** · 09-14-2015, 07:36

Thanks to everyone who contributed on this thread and the original from Alex. Headed to a group hang this weekend and all the trees were already taken. Needed to put together a stand that was portable. Got a lot of great ideas from this thread. Here's what I came up with: