Traveling Hammock Stand - swingset style portable

**Thumbs** · 08-26-2014, 18:33

Originally Posted by autolox

...interested in a version....

...with rubber feet !!

That would disable the lightning protection of it. You WANT the metal pole to conduct all the way to the ground. That's where the lightning wants to go. That way it doesn't have to go through you.

**Baby Huey** · 08-26-2014, 19:04

Originally Posted by Thumbs

That would disable the lightning protection of it. You WANT the metal pole to conduct all the way to the ground. That's where the lightning wants to go. That way it doesn't have to go through you.

I think he meant for use in doors. So as not to damage da floor. They can be removeable for outside use.

**Thumbs** · 08-26-2014, 20:48

Originally Posted by Baby Huey

I think he meant for use in doors. So as not to damage da floor. They can be removeable for outside use.

Could be but the topic had taken a dramatic shift to lightning protection.

**autolox** · 08-26-2014, 20:53

but if the legs aren't a path by insulating them...would lightning strike?

**Thumbs** · 08-26-2014, 21:10

Originally Posted by autolox

but if the legs aren't a path by insulating them...would lightning strike?

Lightning will still take the path of least resistance.
The stand legs are a path even with an insulator. All you would do is make it jump the last inch outside the insulator. It's still part of the path and you aren't if you are laying in it.

**jaxnhowl** · 08-28-2014, 01:44

yes, it will take the path of least resistance, but when the amount of energy going through an object exceeds the object's ability to transfer this energy, the extra energy will find OTHER PATHS, such as arcing, racing along the outside of materials as well as through, and going through any and ALL ways to reach the ground. Lightning is not just a simple current seeking ground, it is a HUGE amount of current that often destroys the materials in the path AND NEAR the path it takes! I imagine if the frame were superheated, anything flammable suspended to it would feel these effects as well. Sometimes the ground itself basically explodes or is fused into glass like structures called fulgurites. In a hotel room, great! Outside.... potentially hazardous.

**momtaxi** · 08-28-2014, 05:33

...or down a wet tarp and wet guy line attached to metal spike.

**dirtwheels** · 08-28-2014, 07:34

I would be very interested in purchasing a set of the machined parts if you're up for that anytime soon, I travel for business at times and the idea of sleeping in hotel beds has become far less than appealing after my introduction to hammocks. PM's are welcome.