Hey all, I received so much help on this forum in the past week or two and I'm very grateful. I just ordered a Dream Hammock Darien 1.3
I guess I'm confused by suspension options but am starting to understand them slowly (I would probably understand them way better with hands on learning but have watched quite a few YouTube videos). My main priorities, in this order, are weight, ease of use/adjustment, price
Please correct me if I'm wrong at any point.
Four major categories that I have learned about include 1) Daisy Chain, 2) some kind of cinch buckle, such as DW Beetle Buckle, 3) Whoopie sling, 4) just some straps with a knot
1) Heavy but easy, adjustments are incremental, every 1" or so
2) Still heavy'ish, but still easy to use, minute adjustments are easy
3) Lighter, can fine tune adjustments, seems popular, trees must be a bit further apart, i.e. cannot use trees that are closer due to nature of whoopie sling
4) lightest option, reliant on knots, adjustments must be made by untying and retying
I've watched a lot of Shug and watched a Spiguyer video on suspension systems and also a blurb on The Ultimate Hang. At the moment I feel like 4) using tree straps and a becket hitch is the way to go. I realise it may not be newb friendly but I feel like I would go in that direction after a while.
Would I simply need to purchase tree straps and that is all (and perhaps a clip)?
I've been researching straps as well and have seen Spider, Kevlar, and UHMWPE mentioned quite a lot. I did read some complaints about UHMWPE and how it can get tangled.
Spider Web 1.5 (12 feet) only weights 42.9 g per Dutchware and Kevlar is around 80 g (depending on if it's 2" 3.1 or 1" 3.3). Any compelling reason to go for Kevlar over the 1" Spider Web 1.5 straps?
Or perhaps tree huggers instead paired up with mule tape?
Anything that I'm missing? It's been a dizzying array of information that I'm trying to comprehend regarding not only suspensions but hammocks and tarps and hardware.
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