Has anyone ever or what are your thoughts on suspending a hammock from a 4 post pop-up canopy?
Seems like an interesting option for car campers.
Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere. I did search before posting.
Has anyone ever or what are your thoughts on suspending a hammock from a 4 post pop-up canopy?
Seems like an interesting option for car campers.
Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere. I did search before posting.
Unless you have some kind of industrial strength canopy then I'd say do not hang any higher than your willing to fall and watch for the metal poles as you go down The typical canopy is so lightweight that a 15 MPH wind can destroy them so these are no where near the specs to hang a hammock from.
I agree with TS.
Even if you somehow guyed out the posts to prevent them buckling inward... A 200lb occupant with a 30° hang angle is putting 120lbs of vertical, compressive force into each support (at head end and foot end). Pop up canopies usually have pushbutton connectors or other plastic connectors that are probably not intended to withstand that type of load. When you add in the dynamic forces that can be much higher, it just sounds like a recipe for a fall.
I would say no. Best bet is a portable hammock stand and there's lots of threads on HF about DIY'ing one.
Some are good and some are junk. But even the good ones have a pretty weak connection where the two leg pieces slide together. I could see that buckling real easy.
My thought is it would be a really funny video submission for America's Funniest Videos.
Enjoy and have fun with your family, before they have fun without you
Don’t do it, no good will result.
But you can still hang between two trees and turn pop up canopy diagonally to get most coverage from rain. Use canopy instead of tarp.
You could even use one tree and a separate sturdy pole anchored to a secure tree further away—to do this last technique, further study is required—see YouTube videos by Shug and also by the guy from Australia—one tree suspension?
Good Luck
You don’t have to be crazy to be a hammock camper...but it helps! Don’t ask me how I know.
The question for me is not the leg strength, though I agree that might fail. The failure mode I see is the scissor structure that connects the tops, buckeling sideways and the roof caving in on you. There is a reason the turtle dog stands and the like all use very heavy cross beams.
FYI: I love the out of the box thinking. Do not take the "Are You Crazy" responses personally. Think more of: ok but if I wanted this to work... What would I have to do?? That is how the various things around here have been dreampt up. Like most things if it were obvious it would have already been done.
Perhaps you can come up with a pop-up camping canopy designed to handle a hammock hanger and thus, you can launch a new product that could meet a need people may not know they have. This is how the Tensahedron stand came to be. I can now easily envision a bi-pole stand with out-riggers and a canopy top, that looks an awful lot like current pop-up canopies, but beefed up.
Last edited by jeff-oh; 02-10-2020 at 15:22.
Thank you everyone. That's about what I figured, but I am but a newb.
I have seen it done at group hangs beforeBut you can still hang between two trees and turn pop up canopy diagonally
I am still 18 but with 52 years of experience !
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