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I had often considered an arched tube with a cross bar to keep it from collapsing, imagine a capitol letter D turned 90*, but then you're back to a big carabiner... or at least more than I want to carry in the line of hardware. It's a valid concept tho'.
Good luck,
RED
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Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace without end to you.
adapted from - ancient gaelic runes
I think that Rog97 had a similar idea in a much lighter form. Check this post to see if this is something like what you're talking about.
The bury can be stitched and shortened quite a bit, about 3-inches should do. Do this on four sides of the rope (every 90 degrees of rotation) and I promise you it will not come apart, use good thread
Aluminum 6061 T6 aluminum tubing 1/2-inch OD with 0.10 wall thickness with a length of 1-Foot will weigh 0.1477 lbs or 2.36 Oz. Here is an online calculator to check out.
http://www.onlinemetals.com/calculator.cfm
Here is an lbs to oz online calculator to check out the conversions.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=...iw=800&bih=387
So an aluminum tube made from 6061 T6 aluminum with a 0.10-inch wall thickness configured with a 1/2-inch Amsteel Blue Rope over a 7-inch straight section covered with the amsteel passed thru the gathered end, and 2.5-inches on both ends to create a triangle would do the trick.
The Sampson Amsteel Blue Rope in 1/2-inch size comes to 6.4 lbs per 100-feet (according to several websites that sell the rope), which comes to 6.4lbs/100ft = 0.064lbs/ft = 1.02 oz per foot of the rope.
http://www.seattlemarine.net/product...eel_ropes.html
A two foot section of the 1/2-inch Amsteel Blue Rope would suffice, for a total weight of about 2.36 Oz for the Aluminum Tube (use an aluminum thimble to reduce this weight) and add 1-2 Oz of Amsteel Blue Rope splice. Here is an image of a short length of Amsteel Tow Rope with an eye splice in the end, to insure safety just stitch it to secure as seen in the image as shown at the beginning of this post.
In the above image image the aluminum tube being inserted into the standing end where the black tape is, the opposite end with the splice could be the attachment point for the suspension system.
However, since the idea of microlight weights come into play, perhaps this might not work for all, due to the 3-4 oz total weight for a 1.5-foot complete section weighing too much for the ultralight crowd.
http://images.persephonemagazine.com...-high-five.gif
My thinking is that covering a 1/2-inch tube with the Amsteel Blue Rope within the gathered end of the hammock might afford a sufficient coefficient of friction to prevent bunching towards the center of the 7-inch span.
...and as a matter of fact I do use 1/2-inch Amsteel Blue Rope, with the 1983 Cherokee Chief Laredo 4x4.
Now granted I am not an ultralight kind of person, so this post might seem outrageous to some, but to my mind 3-4 oz for a complete section is fairly light, and using the following to stitch the Amsteel Rope guarantees the integrity of your hang.
Last edited by joe_guilbeau; 04-07-2013 at 12:49.
At Lowe's today and saw aluminum corrugated gas lines for appliances.
Thinking that a small dowel inserted and then bend the tubing would work well.
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