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    I'm new and I made a hammock.

    I'm Beardly and I think I may have been sucked into this crazy hammock world. I was looking at different sleep methods for camping. I'm no ultralight guy, but why carry more crap then you need to. Well I am either too cheap or too poor to buy stuff, so I make a lot of stuff and decided to make a hammock. Figured rope would be a good way to go since I have a few thousand feet paracord, but from what I saw, it would use a lot, be bulky and heavy. then I saw a tutorial at tothewoods.net and was SOLD! Bought some material and sewed it up. The scary thing was the straps. The stuff at wally world had no weight, not enough of one type, so one strap was nylon and one was polypro. Only place to try it at home was about a good 30 foot span with doubled paracord between straps and hammock, tied a think sycamore and a basketball pole that has been hit and bent by a truck. Tied it up about 4 foot off the ground, gingerly nestled in and slowly reached the ground. Raised it up again, hit the ground. Third time was about shoulder level and fairly level. I couldn't figure out if that pole was about to fall on me of if 20+ feet of synthetic rope and strap was stretching that much, but I finally was off the ground. Like all great all great discoveries, I did my research after the fact.

    So in short, I'm Beardly, I like hammocks, I live in OR, I have terminal ADD, and I'm told that I ramble.

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    Hey Beardly,

    Welcome to the Forum you are off to a good start. Enjoy your time here.
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    I'm new and I made a hammock.

    Hi beardly,

    Sounds like you are getting some fun research and development time.

    Keep it up.

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    Welcome Beardly.

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    I'm new and I made a hammock.

    Welcome to HF from Mass.

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    Welcome to the forums, Baerdly. Us hangers are the sane ones, people that sleep on the ground are the crazy ones. No disrespect meant to crazy people.
    I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."


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    You know like all things we choose to pack we must justify the reason for this over that. And I just couldn't think of why a hammock was better or worse then the ground. Then I saw a video on youtube, can't remember the guys name but it was something like shuge???. In two words, he summed it up and really changed my thoughts on the whole thing "sleep consistency".

    Not sure what that relates to, but there it is.

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    Re: I'm new and I made a hammock.

    Welcome from Scotland!

    Sounds like some fun experiments. We have a saying... pics or it didn't happen, would love to see that wierd setup!!

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    Mighty fine and Whooooooo Buddy))))))
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    Re: I'm new and I made a hammock.

    Where I'm from, anything laying on the ground is food for the fire ants. Of course, around here, the skeeters gonna eat you wherever you are.

    "Never go anywhere without a knife" - Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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