Visual cues for easier setup

[TallPaul]

For the hammock, I put red nail polish on the cord lock of the double ended stuff sack to signify the head end.

UQ - nail polish on the line loc I want by my left shoulder.

[Snaps]

red nail polish

Ohhh, good one. Need to raid the wife's "tool cabinet."

[Silverpalm2x]

my jarbridges' have a red biner for the head or at least that is what I have used consistently. My hammock gear incubator is not marked but I tend to stuff feet first. Hammock is a blackbird and i swapped barrel locks so one is Orange and that is the head so I know which way things are going to open.

[scrope]

I'm with you. I use red/blue biners to distinguish head/foot ends. I like the white tyvek staging area because you can see everything and it's obvious when you've packed it all up. I also dipped my titanium stakes into hunter orange so they are easy to find when I drop them.

[OnTheMove]

I'm with you. I use red/blue biners to distinguish head/foot ends. I like the white tyvek staging area because you can see everything and it's obvious when you've packed it all up. I also dipped my titanium stakes into hunter orange so they are easy to find when I drop them.

Before painting the heads of my titanium stakes I considered a bright red or orange too, and then it dawned on me that those colours predominant in autumn. Instead I used a lighter shade of blue, not as easily visually associated with nature's ground cover regardless of season.

[cmoulder]

For hammock bishop bag, I removed the cord lock from the foot end and fed the cord thru the hammock CL, cinched down the bishop bag and tied the cord shut with some reef knots and finally an overhand knot for the tail. So the bishop bag is semi-permanently attached to the foot end of the hammock. The foot-end CL sticks out of the bag and the head end of the bishop bag is cinched down (with the cord lock) with the hammock suspension just inside, usually in a ziplock bag.

[Lakerat]

Same here. I tied a small piece of yellow zing-it to the head end of my hammock and bishop bag. The winter sock stays packed with the bishop bag in the winter, so I don't have to worry about putting it on in the field. I also picked up the trick of spray painting the ends of all my stakes neon orange. The stuff sack for my stakes are also bright red. It's just too easy to lose all those bits and pieces if they blend in to the surroundings.

[Snaps]

For hammock bishop bag, I removed the cord lock from the foot end and fed the cord thru the hammock CL...

That’s a really good idea. I like it.

[Two Tents]

Once you know, get or find your sweet spot as far as tree spacing, measure that distance with out stretched arms and trekking poles. For me I add about three to five feet more. Sometimes I can find trees that were the same as the previous hang.

[Swishwebb]

For hammock bishop bag, I removed the cord lock from the foot end and fed the cord thru the hammock CL...

That’s a really good idea. I like it.

+1

Never remove the bishop bag from one end of the hammock anyway. Like this idea.