Contemplating Turtle Dog Stand Mods

[bodhran4me]

Hope you had a soft landing. Glad the second attempt worked better for you.

What did you end up using for the stakes?

[SaraR]

Have you seen DD Hammocks new stand? http://www.ddhammocks.com/product/ul...nd?from_cat=44

[rais'n hammock]

Have you seen DD Hammocks new stand? http://www.ddhammocks.com/product/ul...nd?from_cat=44

I just received my DD stand. It is great and also an option for backpacking if needed. (Fast order process too, I ordered it on Thursday and it arrived on Monday from the UK to the west of the USA. Great service!)
I have also used the one pole one tree method many times. I have brought my own pole when car camping and used a pole I found when not. It too works great just like the video shows. The key is the anchor of the guylines to the ground and as mentioned not to allow the bottom of the pole to slip.
As for the turtle dog stand I have made a few for help in demonstrations of hammock use where there are no trees. The long ridge pole is the only pain. I don't like short lengths as they are more of a challange to set up. They are convenient is transport but not so much in set up and use. The joints have to be tight and strong or they will promote flex and bending when the stand is loaded. I use 10' fence top rail for mine.

[oldpappy]

15 minutes and no coffee or donuts, a man can't live under these conditions!
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Gadget

Good job explaining this - thank-you for providing the video. When I travel/camp at our family reunion every year, I borrow a step ladder and employ this method to avoid hauling a hammock stand (one tree and one step ladder).

Thanks again.

[Acoupland]

Hope you had a soft landing. Glad the second attempt worked better for you.

What did you end up using for the stakes?

I used 16 inch spiral ground anchors. It's probably overkill, but I figure if they can anchor a large mobile home, they should be able to keep me off the ground


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[obmit]

There are videos of a single pole on one or both ends of hammock. The pole is guy lined like a radio tower. And it looks like it will hold.
Also I think an Australian bloke made a one pole and one tree hammock video--and for me just looking at the rigging--it did not look like it would hold. But the proof is in the pudding--it held up at least long enough for him to get in hammock and finish video.
Even though it looked like it would fail--it held--there must be some beautiful mathematical and physics formulas to explain this observable replicable phenomenon. If this was covered in my third grade--I must have been in the office that afternoon.

Single tree hammock set up by Survival Tracker
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I used a similar setup for a one tree hang. This was on the banks of the Hiawassee river while I was on a Scout trip. It held for two nights and I didn't have any issues. I used 1/2" rigid conduit for the pole and amsteel with stake booms for the guy lines.

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It was based on this thread started by Alamosa: https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...-Hammock-Stand