Here are some images from a CAD model I roughed out for a treeless suspension.
Blue line is horizontal to ground
Green are suspension lines and one for the hammock line
Gray are support poles (for scale, the poles are 45" long)
Red are ground stakes
Orange is a metal ring
Line setup is just an educated WAG at the locations.
Thoughts anyone?
Is this the idea:
The poles are not free-standing but the base is held in place by stakes....the poles then are free to tilt at any angle...at this point, when attaching the hammock the ridgeline would keep the poles from collapsing to the ground...when weight is put in the hammock the sag is made, the poles lift up until they are caught by the guy lines.
In theory it should work...just need to be sure the poles are long enough to give it some height to allow for the hammock to sag a bit and the stakes will have to be pretty sturdy (I think you'll need titanium or stainless "sand stakes" for them to handle the pulling forces at an angle...I have doubts that cylindrical tent stakes would be enough...maybe the heavy duty ones but I think snow/sand stakes that are V shaped would be better)
what if you did some bipod stuff with the polls.
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Jordo, you've got the idea. The premise is that you can transfer some of the weight of the occupant down to the ground stake and to make use of that additional weight to help anchor the system that maintains the tension. I'm not sure what the best way to run the lines is yet. Maybe it is from the pole top through the ring to the outer anchor. Maybe it is individual lengths that help keep the ratios such that the lines pull more along the ground than up out of the ground. Still working out the concept.
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