My favorite hammock stand

**OldNWay** · 03-24-2018, 15:39

This design was posted a couple years ago. The stand is made of 3/4" emt conduit and awning fittings. What I like about this stand the most is it doesn't take up as much room in the house like the Turtledog stand, when loaded the stand is very stable. The 4 legs are 4 ft long , (4) 5 ft for the two top sections with couplings, and (2) 9" for the cross members. When broken down it stores in a ski bag and weighs 24 lb. I myself weigh 185 Lbs but I feel this stand could handle someone much heavier. The cost of the material was roughly 30.00

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**TrailSlug** · 03-24-2018, 15:50

Nice stand. How do you stay in in sideways though

**OldNWay** · 03-24-2018, 15:54

Lol sorry about the pics the pics are correct before uploading

**TrailSlug** · 03-24-2018, 15:58

Originally Posted by OldNWay

Lol sorry about the pics the pics are correct before uploading

No worries. I sometimes have to rotate them and then post them. It's a pain and something about this message board causes it as I do not see it on other forums. Where did you source the brackets from?

**jdy98p** · 03-24-2018, 17:11

Originally Posted by OldNWay

This design was posted a couple years ago. The stand is made of 3/4" emt conduit and awning fittings. What I like about this stand the most is it doesn't take up as much room in the house like the Turtledog stand, when loaded the stand is very stable. The 4 legs are 4 ft long , (4) 5 ft for the two top sections with couplings, and (2) 9" for the cross members. When broken down it stores in a ski bag and weighs 24 lb. I myself weigh 185 Lbs but I feel this stand could handle someone much heavier. The cost of the material was roughly 30.00

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Since I just bought some similar type brackets, can I assume you $30 was for EMT only? Those brackets aren’t terribly cheap (if not exactly expensive either).

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**OldNWay** · 03-24-2018, 18:48

At the time the conduit was only 4.00 for 10 ft

**West michigan** · 03-27-2018, 16:56

Can you please give more details about the awning fittings
Like a link to the exact ones I need
Very interested at this cost point

**snwcmpr** · 03-27-2018, 19:38

Are the fittings from Tarps.com?

**OldNWay** · 03-29-2018, 04:39

It's been a couple years I'm not sure who I purchased the fittings from. I tried searching for the post on the forum without any luck. A couple guys built stands using conduit but this one uses 3/4 and has 2 top rails.