Cannot loosen Warbonnet suspension buckles

[Lizardcobra]

I'm just looking over this again, in preparation for the next season. Thanks for the help all. I had watched those videos, but for some reason, I added my own step which I thought was implied but had just been left out. That is, to pull all of the slack out, and then crank and jerk the webbing with all of my force in order to get it as close to 0 degrees, and very high tension, as possible.
It seems obvious now that I shouldn't have done

Anyways, those red release loops look really convenient too. I'll see how this works, and I might consider modding my older style buckles, drill a hole, and add those loops to my buckles.

[Singlespeed]

What is the trick? Are you just supposed to not tighten it that much? Do you have to leave some slack when tightening the webbing straps? Usually I just pull it as tight as it will go.

With a near horizontal suspension, each strap will be subject to about 6x your body weight (or whatever is in the hammock)

At a 30deg angle, each strap is only around your body weight... Much less strain on the anchor points, suspension and hammock fabric.
Like 990lb Vs 165lb

[Big E]

I noticed when I got my Tensa4 how different the hang was as the stand itself tends to prevent one from cranking down the suspension, and encourages the more correct positioning of head versus foot. Over the years, i naturally gravitated toward the elevated foot end more and more as a fiddled and adjusted, but let's face it, finding trees the perfect distance apart is not always (or hardly ever) an easy thing. Fiddling with the placement of the straps on the trees, adjusting for weight sag, adjusting the relative distances from head to tree and foot to tree was all part of the learning curve. Getting the Tensa4 was an eye opening experience with respect to ease of hang and lack of fiddling! New hangers would benefit greatly from hanging a couple times in the Tensa4 from a set up perspective, as opposed to the way that most of us learn, by trial and error in the wild. And, let's face it, heavier guys like me really love it when we fail to calculate the proper distance and get in only to sink to the ground - especially when your buddies are watching...