I got a Big Guy Bridge from Just Bill and have bee very comfortable in it. I also have a Tensa 4 stand thT is used when kayak camping. I tried the BGB on the stand and couldn't get the geometry to work. Either the hammock or the spreader bar would hit stand no matter what I did once I got in.
I thought through the geometry and realized that if I could somehow make the poles steeper but keep the ridgeline the same it would work. I imagined extending the poles into the ground and realized, after some trial and error that this could be accomplished by making the stand into two parallel trapazoids. So down the basement I went and grabbed some scrap PVC pipe, cut it in half (22 inches each half) and tied them to the bottom of the tensa poles. It seemed to work great and made the BGB work on the stand. I added a second baseline to keep everything from twisting.
Testing went well in the backyard so I took it with me on my latest trip. It worked well.
The crappy line was replaced with soft shackles and it's not a big deal to fit in the kayak.
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