I got a Big Guy Bridge from Just Bill and love it I slept in it Friday night and then napped in it Saturday. I should have started with a bridge hammock.
I do a lot of kayak camping and got a Tensa 4 stand for camping on islands and other places where trees are limited. I was told the stand wouldn't work with the Big Guy Bridge but took that as a challenge. A suggestion was made to reduce the baseline of the stand to about 3 feet which seems to work with the Ridgerunner but the head end spreader bar and fabric touched the stand when it was loaded. I tried spreading the baseline out much further, about 8 feet, and the tips of the head end spreader bar hit the stand. I also noticed the ridgeline became very slack when the hammock was loaded.
I have an older Tensa 4 with the ZingIt foot teather line and tried making that taught and that straightened out the slack in the ridgeline. I made a UCR to replace the foot teather. I'll continue to experiment but I think the geometry might not work. I can always just order a couple of Solo conversion kits if there's no hope or just use a gathered end but the BGB is just so comfortable.
Bill, Cheryl and Todd are working on this and I hope there's a solution. I haven't done a lot of fiddling yet but maybe somebody else has.
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