Electric Tree Straps?

[GT]

So I hiked out to one of my favorite camping spots along the river yesterday.
Wasn't going to stay the night but figured I'd have a lunch and hang in the hammock for awhile.
So I got a little fire going and was looking at one of my tree straps. When I walked around the tree, a freaking spider about the size of a VW went running around the tree and down my tree strap. It got to the biner at the loop and stopped. So I bent down to look for a branch or something to whack it with and when I looked back up. it was gone.
Needless to say I couldn't get into the hammock after that.
But I did come up with a great idea.
Electric tree straps. or, "ZAP STRAPS!" All you need is to run an extension cord over to your car battery and ZAP! the critters away.

[steveks]

That would get interesting while you try to sleep, bbbuuuuuzzz zzzaaaappp.

[Trambo]

Wouldn't one of those devices that you plug into the
wall to deter rodents and insects work just the same?

I'm talking about the subsonic speaker one

[GT]

We have these spiders here that I heard called water spiders. They hang around on the shores of the rivers and streams and at mariners on the lake.
I saw one once sitting on a light bulb and it took up the whole top of the bulb.
Never been bit by one but I heard they do bite and will put a welt on you the size of an egg.
Thinking now that I'm going to soak my tree straps in some sort of insecticide.

[dangerous]

yep, at one time I counted 8 spiders on just one of my tree straps, now the whole rig to include suspension gets treated with permethrin.

[Gravity]

Zapstraps! I'll buy one but it has to be solar powered and weight less than 1 oz.

[Itsamescott]

You have inspired me to soak my entire suspension in Permethrin.