So, I've been toying with this the last couple of days. It works well and was cheap to make. Having no trees in my backyard necessitated some sort of stand and after looking at Alamosa's portable stand thread (thanks man, great idea BTW) I made a setup with one pole so I could utilize one of the fence posts seen in the pics below as the other half. It worked well enough but proved cumbersome for me to stake out the pole and it sequestered me to one spot in the yard. I wanted to be able to move my setup around so I had pretty much resigned to building one of the Turtle Stands. However, I'm not crazy about the idea of having the pole over me, its more bulky and I haven't wanted to spend the money on the pole because, lets face it, I'm cheap. So I have eventually come into this setup. Its pretty easy to set up in that I can stake down one side and then essentially "accordion" the rest up with little effort. It takes very little time to set up after its initially built. My backyard is hard GA clay and is like concrete right now so I'm not currently using boom stakes and it seems ok. As long as the ground is dry like is was a couple of hours ago I think they'd hold. That being said, its raining like crazy right now so If I were caught in this rain and the ground got soggy I may end up on the ground or with a long nail slung through my skull. That thought makes me a bit nervous for some reason so I may upgrade to something better than the long nails I'm using now. The only real issue I have with this setup is that the top line goes slack when the hammock is loaded which will cause my tarp to go somewhat droopy. I had this same issue using the single pole Alamosa-ish setup so I was kind of expecting it. Not sure if its a deal breaker but I'm sure I will eventually build a turtleXstand to avoid this. Anyway, there's nothing really groundbreaking about it as we've all seen the bipod setup before in various iterations but I was bored and thought Id share .
Specs:
Poles are 2x2" (actually 1 3/8 x 1 3/8) cut 84" long.
When the feet are spread, the eye bolt attachment points sit roughly 5'9" high.
Attachment points are 13' apart set by the length of rope between them.
Stake ropes are 16' long and I'm using truckers hitches to tension the system up.
Eye bolts were 3/8" x 6" long placed 4 " from the ends of the 2x2's.
Rope is a diamond braided, polyester rope I had lying around. I think It came from China Fre...I mean Harbor Freight.
Tarp will be secured to the ridge line with prussiks.
Truck is a Tacoma.
I'm a Sagittarius.
Wrestling is fixed.
Link to Pics:
http://s105.photobucket.com/user/rob...deshow/hammock
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