JMwands, if your Hennessy's ridgeline is slack/loose, it tells you you need to let out the suspension further, or increase the tilt of the stand. Hammocks shorter than 12' will always need some suspension with Tensa4 to get the right lay.
Tensa4 ridgeline tension adjustments are the opposite of tree suspension, which confuses many. To get a tighter ridgeline, you lengthen the suspension, and vice versa.
Please do NOT tighten the head end guyline to pry open the stand. This loads the poles more, and raises the hammock such that you'll need to let the baseline out further to lower, which compounds the extra pole loading. The result is that the poles could fail at below the weight rating.
Here's a link to a DRAFT of a troubleshooting section for a documentation revision in progress: https://www.tensaoutdoor.com/wp-cont...bleshoot-1.pdf . Comments welcome!
It hasn't come up yet as an issue with customers, but Tensa4 is NOT ideally compatible with the mummy/banana approach to hanging, in which one strings a hammock without ridgeline as tight as possible, in attempt to make it flat along the centerline.
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Tensa4 documentation is coming in-house, in color, and I've got a ROUGH DRAFT I want to post here before further editing and printing. If you own a Tensa4 or are Tensa4 curious, any feedback on this is welcome: https://wp.me/a9C3sF-5Fn
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Tensa Outdoor, LLC, maker of the Tensa4, Tensa Solo, and Tensa Trekking Treez hammock stands: http://tensaoutdoor.com/
I agree.
My tensa4 worked well for the few nights I tried it in my house, but it is bigger than I prefer for in the house use, so it was taken down. Just spent the last two nights in it, in a hotel room, and will be there using it for the next 2 weeks. It is a lifesaver for hotel use, though it isn't always easy to find a decent foot anchor in a modern hotel room. Still learning how best to adjust it, but setup was much faster and easier than the first time. Might be tough to pull off if I was sharing my room, as it really takes up the space, but for just me, it is great to not sleep in a bed, especially during covid.
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Tensa Outdoor, LLC, maker of the Tensa4, Tensa Solo, and Tensa Trekking Treez hammock stands: http://tensaoutdoor.com/
The numbers get a little dense. Many times i was more terse because I’m working within 5.5x8.5” pages and keeping the breaks natural is hard.
Since we don’t expect users to need to measure things (or even know how long their hammocks are), would it be adequate just to say that hammocks shorter than 12’ will need some suspension on both sides, and to start with a forearm’s length?
We have recently switched webbing style to have daisy loops on the tops of the guylines, so you can use the tails of same as suspension, no need for separate.
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