Retrofitting Continuous Loops

[radeonDEUS]

How long are your CL's? I made a couple knotted ones out of amsteel (didn't splice - might look into that though..) that I larks-headed onto two 'suspension rings' from HomeDepot (they are just steel rings with around 500lb workload) which I use like a motorcycle helmet strap. They are a little long though...

[Hangandy]

Anyway, the

[SilvrSurfr]

The zip-ties are actually only there for the Canadians. See whenever we buy a new hammock we get so excited and yell so much that our false teeth often fall out and they sometimes get chipped up pretty good. We use the cheap painted wood ones.

Anyway, to keep them together until we get them to the denturist we use zip-ties. And Dutch knows all about it so to help us out he puts in a couple extra pair of zip-ties. Of course any American hangers who choose to attach their suspension to these zip-ties may find they come in handy for securing their broken bone shards back together after their suspension fails. ��

Thanks for that explanation. As an American, I don't always have the ability to think like a Canadian!

[Hangandy]

Sorry, I think I went off topic.

[hammer0419]

Those zip ties are kind of scary to get off they are so tight. I now ask Dutch to leave them loose so I can easily remove them and replace with loops.

[Flash Grundelore]

Maybe I am misunderstanding things.... but if you leave the zip-ties in the channel and larkshead below that, don't you end up with a big, ugly, fist sized lump hanging off at each end of your hammock and a hammock that is then a couple of inches shorter than it needs to be?

[stryder]

don't you end up with a big, ugly, fist sized lump hanging off at each end of your hammock and a hammock that is then a couple of inches shorter than it needs to be?

Yes but prior to my spiffy Dutch hammock I was doing tablecloth hammocks; where you have a few wraps at end of material to hold the gathered ends together when not in use. So the big ugly lump did not seem amiss. I was thinking zip ties were the same and left them in.

All good now though.

[danah.]

There is one especially clear, easy to follow instruction on making 8" CLs with 7/64" amsteel blue. (his name is Ian) rock solid. I feed them through the sewn channels with a 7" long piece of tubing easy peasey