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    Quote Originally Posted by stairguy View Post
    If your still worried, put a slippery half hitch where the bury comes out............
    Very bad idea. If it did slip, the knot would attempt to release the bury!

    To the OP...the more weight you add, the tighter the bury grips.

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    always test with your hangs and push down into the hammock. Or push down on the ridge line.
    Call me Junior

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hickery View Post
    Don't forget to milk your bury.It's all good.
    I don't know if this is a joke or not, what does this mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WillieCash View Post
    I don't know if this is a joke or not, what does this mean?
    It means to make sure the rope on the outside of the splice is tightened back down over the inner rope. In that way it works like the finger traps people used to get at the fair. It puts constant pressure on the inner rope keeping it from slipping.

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    I have topped mine out at 285 and they dont budge, unless, it slips off the toggle which has happened to me twice, and it is quite the sudden drop
    milk that bury, double or like me quadruple check your toggles and hop in for some whoopie hangin!!
    "I love not man the less, but Nature more."
    Byron

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    First upgrade right into Dutchware! Well met my good hanger.

    Now I am jealous
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    At 285 My whoopie slings hold me just fine, I admit I was scared of them and used straps for a year or so before I took the plunge and bought them, now I wish I had purchased them sooner.

    I bet you will too.
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    Next stop dynaglide suspension
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    I think I'm going straight to the straps without a toggle for now. Maybe I'll get more brave later.

    Took a while to get to this point!

    Thanks for clarifying the "Milk" advice. I got it as soon as you said "Chinese Finger Cuffs". It made total sense after that.

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    And for the rest of my rotund brethren; thanks for the reassurance. It makes me feel much better about this.

    I fell just right about two feet on to the granite while fishing in the High Sierras a few years back and cracked my tailbone. Then had to hike out about 3,000 feet and five miles down. By the time I got to the bottom I swear I was seeing in black and white. That definitely made me a bit gun-shy!

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