Interesting. Will have to give that a go - by which score your video is successful I do tend to gravitate between techniques and setups. I've not tried snake skins yet, I've stuck with the "stuff it in the sack" method.
Being on a bike I usually put my stakes in one of the frame bags separate from everything else.
I've come to hammocking from climbing then bikepacking and it's interesting to see how different sports cultures solve similar problems in very different ways. Knots will be a good example: in climbing (and caving/spelunking) your life depends on the integrity of the whole system - getting wet is a mild inconvenience by comparison. Because of my climbing background I'd always tie lines to tarps with a Bowline but currently use a Sheet Bend/Beckett Hitch - as easy as or easier than the Bowline but needs to be kept under tension to maintain integrity. At the stake end of the line I've gone from Taut Line Hitch to Farrimond Hitch to MSH. I use a Farrimond to tension the ridge line.
A friend showed me a neat way to tie a Clove Hitch into a carabiner - have the line pass through the biner from back (standing end) to front (working end), if the biner gate is facing to the right reach round the back of the standing end from the right and grab the working end, pull it round and at the same time twist the line towards the biner then clip the loop thus formed into the biner. Voila! A Clove Hitch.
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