If Amsteel's the best what is 2nd best?

**TeeDee** · 11-22-2009, 20:34

Originally Posted by mtncmpr

Maybe I ought to re-think this, eh? Maybe I should go with the following...
now THAT would make me feel secure. It even comes with hooks already attached!

Oooohhh - My aching back

So which is it? A sore back or a sore tush?

**opie** · 11-22-2009, 20:46

Originally Posted by TeeDee

Just a little something to think about while relaxing in your hammock with Amsteel suspension.

That plastic bag you get at the grocery store and which dumps the groceries on the pavement at the least inopportune moment.

It's polyethylene.

That Amsteel rope you are relying on: it's polyethylene.

The grocery bag has a lot in common with your hammock suspension.

Now doesn't that make you feel more secure ?

So what youre really saying is.....

I can use those plastic bags as hammock suspension?

**mtncmpr** · 11-22-2009, 20:55

Originally Posted by opie

So what youre really saying is.....

I can use those plastic bags as hammock suspension?

I hadn't thought of that... that's better yet!!

**opie** · 11-22-2009, 20:59

We use HDPE in our piping systems at work. In SDR 11 and 17 mostly. Some SDR 21.

**lazyboy** · 11-23-2009, 13:49

Originally Posted by TeeDee

Just a little something to think about while relaxing in your hammock with Amsteel suspension.

That plastic bag you get at the grocery store and which dumps the groceries on the pavement at the least inopportune moment.

It's polyethylene.

That Amsteel rope you are relying on: it's polyethylene.

The grocery bag has a lot in common with your hammock suspension.

Now doesn't that make you feel more secure ?

Isn't that like saying.. That paper clip you can bend so easily is made of steel, that bridge you drive over ever day is made of steel, doesn't that make you feel secure

**TeeDee** · 11-23-2009, 16:25

Originally Posted by lazyboy

Isn't that like saying.. That paper clip you can bend so easily is made of steel, that bridge you drive over ever day is made of steel, doesn't that make you feel secure

Yep - seen the news about the condition of the US bridges recently?

Don't think that this can be taken much further without getting serious, which my original comment wasn't meant to be.

**hipockets** · 11-24-2009, 06:54

I ordered some amsteel for a ridgeline and slings. If amsteel is so slippery how do I attach a DIY hammock with gathered ends to the ridge line?

**sclittlefield** · 11-24-2009, 09:47

Originally Posted by hipockets

I ordered some amsteel for a ridgeline and slings. If amsteel is so slippery how do I attach a DIY hammock with gathered ends to the ridge line?

For the suspension I am using a double sheet bend with 7/64 amsteel on a DIY gathered end, with an extra wrap of the tail around the line where it tightens up to secure it. It's seen limited use, but so far, so good. I do check it every time I hang.

For my ridgeline - I put a button hole in the hammock fabric 6" in from each end (centered). I run the ridgeline through that and have a loop at the end. The suspension line runs through that loop. I may have a picture I can add that might help (using different cord that I would never recommend now) but shows the idea.

Use at your own risk!