I've put this Warbonnet Eldorado up a few times and slept one night in it just in my yard. Only had for a couple months. Is this normal at the foot end?
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I've put this Warbonnet Eldorado up a few times and slept one night in it just in my yard. Only had for a couple months. Is this normal at the foot end?
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That is not normal. I wouldn't hang in that hammock for a second. Time to contact Warbonnet!
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
That’s toast
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Thinking it is toast too. I'm not sure if it was delivered that way because it is where the webbing covers it. I definitely wasn't rough on it. Three weeks until my section hike, that might be toast too.
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The photo doesn’t show it clearly but it appears your suspension line from the hammock is going straight out rather than up at an angle. Tell a little more about your setup - about how far apart were the trees and the height of your connection on the trees - or the suspension angle coming off the tree.
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Here's the hammock as it's set up. Trees are about 18 feet apart.
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Here's a couple more.
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Your suspension angle is supposed to be 30 degrees - that photo looks like closer to 15 degrees, at most. Time to consult the Hammock Hang Calculator!
https://theultimatehang.com/hammock-hang-calculator/
At 18 ft. distance between anchors, your straps should be 80.4 inches (or 6.7 feet) up the tree. I would guess that your straps are closer to 3.5 to 4 ft. high. That's a lot of stress on the hammock.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably too low correct, but that angle is hard to tell because of the slope in the yard. It is at about 6 feet.Originally Posted by SilvrSurfr
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At that angle you could be putting about 400 lbs stress on the hammock - depending upon your body weight. The stress on the hammock can be much more than your body weight as the hang angle gets shallower than 30 degrees.
My guess is it was strung too tight ….except the hammock ridgeline should have taken all the stress, protecting the hammock. So though we can criticize the hang angle, the resulting force - probably outside the recommended “body weight” - shouldn’t have been transferred to the hammock itself.
In order to see what few have seen, you must go where few have gone. And DO what few have done.
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