for on the trail, maybe try this instead:
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...=1#post2028235
that is, make a pedal for yourself, and attach it to one of your treehugers. i will usually bring a third strap as i find it handy for other purposes too, and not too heavy, but you don't have to: when the trees are far apart, you only need to get a leg up on one tree, and set the strap as high as it needs to be, one the other tree you can just set it up at your "confortable reach height". this will work perfectly fine, with the hammock considerably closer to the tree where the strap is low (instead of centered), to estimate how much considerably closer, i use the structural ridgeline (horizontal being the reference state, and then if you like head end or foot end heigher you can adjust from there). this way you can set one strap high using the second one for the pedal, then set up the second one within your reach.
this also means that you can just focus on having extension available for one side of the suspension only, not both, which means likely less hassle and time to setup
this sounds a lot more complicated in writing than it actually is if you see it. unfortunately i haven't seen any hang calculator which allows for asymetric hangs (erm, Derek, OM?), but imagine it this way instead, maybe:
imagine a hammock hung symmetrically right in the middle of two trees, with suspension nicely at the magic 30 degrees, ridgeline horizontal etc. now extend the imaginary line that's inline with the suspension on one side, until you, ahem, run out of paper. take the tree on that side, and "move it away", you will see the suspension line now intersects the tree higher and higher, as you move it, but nothing else needs to change for the setup to be perfectly the same as before (well, assuming no stretch of the suspension of course, the longer the suspension, the more stretch there will be)
this more generalized way of thinking of suspension (instead of just "centered"), is, i think, very useful: it can also help understand quickly how things will work with hangs on steeper slopes, and is also handy when designing indoor hanging setups (cause beds are just a misguided invention caused by the lack of ripstop at the time :P): hint although already way offtopic: hanging one end of the hammock at a "reasonable height" on the wall, but the other end on the ceiling, but at a convenient distance, you can have the hammock close to the wall, and the suspension out of the way on one side, instead of dividing the room in two (well, this works assuming the room has at least one dimension long enough to reach so high)
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