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Welcome! This is the place to learn. Amazing amount of information here. It's like drinking from a fire hose!

Well, sort of. You do want to avoid tight knots and knots around very small hardware with amsteel. I've read that there is some number of times the diameter of the amsteel you want hardware to be (I...

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Very nice!

That slipped lark's head comes out just as easily as the marlin spike. Not better or worse, mind you, but equivalent in ease.

Yes.

Dejoha reports in his book, The Ultimate Hang, that he successfully used a slipped larks head on a climbing biner with a Hennessey suspension. I cannot find an online version of his drawing, but here...

Just so you know, the Funky Forest Tarp is no longer made. Amazon erroneously labels one that way when it is, in fact, the All Purpose Rainfly (APR). The APR is 10' x 10'. I love mine.

Subscribed. Looks fun. Would love to have my 21-year-old son go here with me. Would be happy to hook up with a group.

DIY is a hobby, make no mistake about it. Can be a fun and rewarding hobby, to be sure. But forget about saving money, unless you make a ton of gear. By the time you add in shipping, costs of a...

Cute little park! I just looked it up. Unfortunately I'll be in Philadelphia this weekend. I might have made this my first outdoor hang, but I'll get with you guys soon.

Thanks for explaining that! I had this gut sense that this slippery larks head is less stressful than some tighter knots for Amsteel, but I had no idea why. That was helpful.

Hi from Valley Forge area

You're still overthinking this. And now that I correctly understand where you are using the biner, and that you are a self-professed gram weenie (that's not a bad thing :) ) just chuck the darn biner...

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Nope, I'm out. Three season for sure. I was considering this again until this morning when I woke up to this in Chicago.

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Shug Emery

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC27nqmEhKzD9YHK1IFwG7qA


Dejoha (Derek Hansen)

https://www.youtube.com/user/hansenoutdoors/videos

Oh wow! Shug, I had seen #1, but somehow missed #2 and 3! I love your vids! First off, most YouTube vids are 3X longer than they need to be, people like to hear themselves talk, I guess. But yours...

You are right, I was thinking the carabiner was in between the hammock line and the strap. However, while this changes things, as that hang angle gets shallower the forces on that biner are going to...

You are over-thinking this thing. Waaaaay over-thinking it. Go look at the hang calculator again. Cord tension, and therefore the force exerted on the carabiners, is most dependent on the hang angle....

Funny you should ask this today, because I've been rearranging my hammock suspension and was about to put guy lines on a new tarp. I was thinking about having some long/short versions depending on...

Wow! Two hours from my house. I am in, as well as my son, I hope. This will likely be my first hang! :shades:

You mentioned considering one with a floor and nobody has yet addressed that. Here is a review of the Grand Trunk net with floor I am cogitating over. Seems like a bit much, but if you are...

Finally finished my Amsteel and Zing It splicing and redid the ends of the hammock a la Xtrekker's Youtube. It's pretty sleek, I like it! It's still fairly lightweight even with a couple of tree...

There are a lot of good tarps out there, but for reasons you'll see below I like square patterns with lots of tie-outs because they are so versatile. I have the Grand Trunk All Purpose Rainfly at 10'...

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There are a bunch of products like those that work well, I'm sure. I used to just use some wadded up grass or leaves rolled into a ball. Press it into the inside of the tarp and strangle it with a...

You'd be a pretty big boy if you needed something wider than 40".

Because I like the biners and could not care less about that amount of weight. I could do that, no question about it, but when I saw the knot in the book I kinda liked it with the biner. No reason,...

Whew! I FINALLY quit obsessing over this. I don't know why I was agonizing over it so much, I guess because there are sooooo many suspension options to choose from. I felt a little like the mule that...

People are finding out they can still use the pointing finger method even if you don't get 30*. I drew an angle on cardboard then placed my hand against it and found that exactly 30*, for me, the...

He uses a lark's head, he's asking should he do it through the channel or directly around the outside of the bunched end. He uses a lark's head either way. I'm not experienced enough to answer, but...

Um, yeah, that much tech I can handle! :lol:

I am using FireFox 35.0.1 and I use Yahoo! Mail in the FF browser, no offline mail client. I got the thread update message, clicked on the thread link,...

It is not consistent. I clicked on a subscribed post update link in an email today and got the redirect. Closed that window and clicked the email link again and it worked. I'm not a techie, so I...

I cannot speak to the Air Bivy because I do not have one. But the Skeeter Beeter Pro is plenty big for you.

Hahaha, yeah. She's a real "girly girl". The ruck was a PA National Guard giveaway my son got for me. I can't wait to get this into the woods, but I'm going to start in the spring. If I do winter it...

Super video, thanks for sharing!

Do you have some sort of top cover for your pooch in her hammock?

Thanks for finding that, I couldn't remember where to find it. Great vid.

Um, didn't you just get married? And go on a hike with your bride for the honeymoon?

You might get some slack because you've still been married less than a month, but get with the program, buddy!...

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php/105017-The-Lost-Coast-Trail-Seals-Sea-Lions-and-Whales!



https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php/104957-Hanging-with-my-dog


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Sounds like you are all set, but in case other folks come in here to learn about beginner tarps, I thought I'd chime in. I got the Grand Trunk All Purpose Rainfly (APR, erroneously sold on Amazon as...

Thank you!

Great lost trail video! Congrats again to you both.

I'm curious, is that tent a real "tent product" or something you created out of a tarp? I love dual-purpose gear. I'm suspecting it's a tarp,...

Nice! A very big

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Just went on for me on this pad condensation thing. Thanks! I understand...

Noob here with question about this SLS stuff. I think I want to do this because I want a structural ridgeline, but as a new hanger I don't know how long I want it. Why I am posting is I notice this...

Oh boy, I've done nothing but think on this for days. I've recently discovered Grizz's Single Line Suspension with the SMC decender rings and thinking that might be ideal. I love the simplicity of it...

The original hammock just has a simple overhand knot in that loop. Nothing fancy. The rope is some kind of solid core and not very easy to deal with, I think you are on the right track replacing it.

I got the Grand Trunk All Purpose Rainfly, erroneously labeled the Funky Forest Tarp on Amazon. It is 10 feet square with additional tie-outs along the edges and on the diagonal ridgeline so it can...

That's really imaginative and looks like it works really well! Thanks for sharing.

Rather than bold the relevant points lets quote the whole thing. I was teasing, I really did not mean to be offensive, but since you asked me to clarify ...

You did not say anything technically...