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Unless your hanging two people in one hammock, you'll be fine FWIW. Amsteel is plenty strong. But you are reducing the knot efficiency unnecessarily and splicing Amsteel is fun.

From what little I know about it, it sounds pretty non-recreational and pretty hard core. Also most of the "knots" are formed in topologies with no free ends IIRC. Like a CL with a knot in the...

It can be mathematically proven, I believe. I Have some acquaintances who specialize in the mathematical field of knot theory, I'll ask them to confirm.

TominMN, the color coding can be useful because I intend to keep all the suspension components connected most of the time, when not wet or covered in sap. This makes it faster to figure out head and...

Phantom Grappler: yup, I saw your video showing proper technique. I even link to it in the YouTube video description.

The buries complicate the issue a little bit, as they cause a little bit of a...

Yes, the point of the infinity loop between the UCR and the tree-hugger is three-fold:
1. Allow the hammock to connect directly to the hugger for short hangs (hammock-UCR connect is male-female,...

True... I haven't lock stitched the dynaglide yet, and the amsteel should hold, even though I used a sewing machine. I did have the tensioner set as low as possible, though.

I made a video showcasing the various components. A link to it is in this thread, although I think I botched embedding the video into the post....

Here is a video on my UL, modular, quick connect, dynaglide suspension system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoq4RUeoG2c

Sorry for the poor production quality and poor delivery, this is my...

Yes thanks to all at Dutchware for their hospitality and custom orders while you wait!

I think I'll come! Not sure if I'll have Theo, the greyhound or Janine, the wife with me though... we'll see! Great meeting you last weekend at the NoVA hang, and thanks so much for letting me try...

I'm guessing that won't be enough.... just a guess though.

Yes, special thanks to yojimbo for planning, but you seemed to take the lead on making sure the meals were sorted out... and did some fine DO cooking.

CoryR,
Thanks so much for taking the lead on meal coordination, and all your help planning the hang and making it happen! Janine and I had a great time, and hope to be able to have enough gear to...

We took A35... Gonna finish setting up and then head over to find everyone.

It sounds as though there will be spare UQs and TQs and probably tarps... if you strike out at REI.

Just packed up all the things, and about to load the car and roll out. Should be there in 1-1.5...

Hey Dutch and Uphill,

I'm new to hammock camping, and probably going to end up ground dwelling with my wife and greyhound. However, if I could at least borrow a TQ and UQ from one of you (Uphill...

if not, no biggy, I'm not sure yet between the wife, dog and cold if spending the night in a hammock is even in the cards, even if I can scrounge up the requisite sleeping gear/insulation...

Amazing! I may take you up on that offer... or someone from our party might. I have two ENOs, an ENO Sub7 (that I trimmed a few more grams off of and have my tricked out UCR suspension attached to)...

My wife and I will probably just pay for our own campsite... our tent is BIG. (We also enjoy some level of privacy, not that we don't want to make new friends :).) If our friend Griffin comes (also...

Haven't seen those. Are they on his site? What would you use them for, UQ?

@uphill: You want the hardware 'biners? I can make some high-strength soft-biners too... but I'm especially looking to get rid of the hardware ENO biners.

@yojimbo: thanks for the info. I poked...

Dutch,
I certainly feel that I know my way around a splicing fid, but would love to see how you do things, and show you some of my ideas and innovations. Not sure if I'll be there Saturday night,...

Hi everyone,
I just looked at the weather, and Friday is supposed to be warm! Because of this, my wife and I are planning on attending, with our diva of a dog (he's a greyhound, they're sensitive...

I love it! Just made one with a button knot (swapped a soft shackle out) on one of my tree straps. No longer need to worry about loosing those darn small nacra-biners! Uses a little bit less line,...

WV, I just took a look at the "gone loopy" video from Grizz, and it does appear that our ideas about modular/interchangeable components are quite similar! I suppose I owe Grizz a shout out, as well!...

Hmmm, I was thinking about that myself. It's an ENO Sub7 that I bought at REI. I don't have the receipt anymore, and there is a decent chance that I damaged the fabric getting in and out; it's a very...

Thanks Phantom Grappler! I'll try to make a video, but the production quality is going to be terrible, and it will probably be me hanging in my tiny apartment (between the kitchen pass through and...

Do you use it for soft shackles or are you using at all to connect two separate components like I am?

The extra girth of the button knot, and the buried ends make it pretty and stronger than a...

I'm looking for advice on what to use to prevent a run/anomoly in my ENO Sub7 hammock material from becoming a tear. I've heard good things about gear-aid but am wondering if people have other...

First of all, I'd like to thank SGT Rock and also some folks from the sailing community for their innovations. (i.e., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch-bqE7OQZw and...

GadgetUK437, thanks for the great additional instructions! I was able to dress and tie the knot successfully now that I attempted to do it at home. (I was trying to do it in the back seat of a car at...

I was going to use VHB (very high bonding) tape to attach the noseeum baffles and outer cover to the hammock. I would suspect that the VHB tape has some stretch to it, and will help distribute the...

So I'm pretty new to DIY hammock building and in depth discussions about fabric... I understand the notion of oz/yard but denier, weather rating or whatever, etc. is completely foreign to me...

I...

Cool, I have no problem tying a diamond knot. The idea of the chinese button knot is that all four strands exit from the same place. The two running ends exit the knot where the two standing ends...

I picked up some very small nylon washers for keeping the adjustable eyes of my soft-shackles out of trouble...

Could you please explain a little better? Or post a drawing or picture? I can't really follow your description of how you set this up.

olddog, are those diamond knots on the end of your soft-shackles/nacra-biners? I'm trying to build the high strength soft shackle but am having difficulty tying, (dressing, really) the dual-strand,...

Well you can just make some easy disconnect for the hammock from the suspension system... then you set up the tarp then the hammock... I understand that getting the tarp tensioned correctly is not...

I've been working on a super light weight UCR suspension system for my two hammocks, and would love to make the hang to show them off and see other peoples setups... only problem is I don't have a...

FireInMyBones: thanks for posting your video! I actually came across this before, but had forgotten about the shelter portion, I was so intrigued by the UQ integrated into the hammock! Thanks for...

The funnel is sort of envisioned to mate two hoses with different diameters... ;-)

Thanks Klauss! I might give it a shot!

Has anyone tried making a bug net out of Tulle? Just from the product weights on amazon it looks significantly lighter than 0.5 oz noseeum... Are the holes too big? Is it too fragile? I've also heard...

Great tips!

Not sure what model I have, but I'm pretty sure there is an electronic setting to do numerous types of button holes... I'm guessing it's not a 15-91...

The idea would be for a hammock with a built in UQ... a channel would run through the UW too... Just have to watch out for your shoes/pack/tyvek ground sheet!

haha I've started a battle about the jar pissers vs the non-jar pissers!

Well, Roche, your peanut butter jar solution is likely lighter than my piss tube solution, especially after reinforcements,...

I was thinking about nights when I've been cold camping, and how much it really sucks to get up to pee, although in the end it's necessary so that you don't waste energy heating your stored up urine....

Also, FWIW, your setup and intuition looks like it coincides well with my physical reasoning about what a good setup would look like. Perhaps the bigger question will be: Is it comfortable :-P

Raftingtigger:

If you like I can get some formulas for the guy line tension and the pole compression... I'll probably have to wait until tomorrow though. You can certainly plug them into excel and...