Accrete's Single/Double Hammock portable stand

[Rekoob]

First, great thread. Second, when Home Depot cut your pipes, what did they use? Third, instead of shackles, would quick links work just as well.

Thanks,
Mike

I used quick links on one of the sets I made, shackles on the other. The quick links are a little more fussy but they do work. Just make sure you get it big enough that the eye bolt will fit through, mine were right at the edge of fitting but didn't, I made them.

[Xtrm tj]

Just to do a silly test, as I pondered the same... I moved the two prusik knots to the middle of one of the 1/2 ridge poles and Cari and I carefully hung by it with knees off the ground. So ~300 lbs off the two braids from the single anchor onto 1-3/8" rail. There was no indication of bending or wobble. YMMV.

Post Edit.... what I meant by "hung by it with knees off the ground." . . Is that we were kneeling side by side on the lawn with hands holding the ridgepole and carefully did sort of a chin up action until we were balancing with basically only the front-top of shoes touching the ground. So I suppose there was very close to our combined weight of 300 pounds on the center tripod.

Thom

Do you have a picture of this to better explain this? I weigh about 300 Lbs and I am considering this style stand. Has anyone reported good success at these weights repetitively?

[accrete]

Do you have a picture of this to better explain this? I weigh about 300 Lbs and I am considering this style stand. Has anyone reported good success at these weights repetitively?

No pictures. I just wanted to get a better feel of the general sturdiness of a given tripod and the center-hang point off eyebolts. Since we are both around ~150lbs the weight was also approximate.

WARNING: Use at your own risk! Never hang higher than you are willing to fall. Ridgepoles can cause serious hurt! . . as well as the ground.

Thom

[SwitchbackCat]

I decided to use a spare set of straps and descender rings to hang the rail. My wife didn't like the "clink" of the change and I wanted the ability to easily adjust the height of each end.

[accrete]

...I decided to use a spare set of straps...

Totally! There are so many options to get the job done.
Back at post #68 in this thread I shared my switch over to these little gems I found in the climbing section on amazon which work great too (they are called "Daisy Chains"). BUT way more expensive than what you put together (yea, I am a techno-junkie).

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: ) Thom

[Scott_Adkins]

Totally! There are so many options to get the job done.
Back at post #68 in this thread I shared my switch over to these little gems I found in the climbing section on amazon which work great too (they are called "Daisy Chains"). BUT way more expensive than what you put together (yea, I am a techno-junkie).

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: ) Thom

How do you keep the ridge pole from sliding in or out of the loops. Do you have any pictures of it set up with them.

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[accrete]

How do you keep the ridge pole from sliding in or out of the loops. Do you have any pictures of it set up with them...

Here is a close up I just took. The twine is simply waxed hemp and also a wrap of friction tape on RP under it all. There is NO movement with my weight in WB BB.

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: ) Thom

[BananaHammock]

I just put a few wraps of electrical tape on either side.

[accrete]

Ah, one more thing I should share on our stand set ups (either the DIY or the TATO)... we keep the RP attached to each respective tripod, they are not removed during storage. That may help explain why I go through the bother of the line wrap, it is meant to keep it all together when moved. I also color-code the poles for easy set up; yellow for the foot end, cuz my feet are on the Yellow Brick Road. This color-coding is also carried through on hammocks, we have yellow cord on the foot ends.

: ) Thom

[bigj121]

I have been enjoying this entire forum. I own 3 hammocks(not sure of brand) and 3 hammock chairs(2 rope ones and 1 canvas one). I have been hammocking for over 25 years now but not usually for camping. I was on another hammock stand thread and found my way here and immidiatly recognized your design, but I use it for my hammock charirs. 1 1/4 conduit, full length(10'). I did the eye bolts a little different. I used a hole saw, the same diameter as the ID of the conduit, and cut holes from 2x4's, removed the "waste" from the hole saw and put my eye bolts through the holes. I uses 3 "waste" holes from the hole saw per each eye bolt. Tightened them down with nuts and washers and they fit like a glove inside the ends of the conduit. Secures with a screw through the conduit into the wood. I then used a easy clip to join them together. Hanging my chair using a wratchit strap. wires strung at the bottom to prevent legs going apart.

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