You describe a tight space, yes. In future, I suggest you experiment with collapsing a few segments on all 4 poles, everything else remaining connected as normal. This lets you “unfold” the stand at setup time without striking a low ceiling, and also to store the stand folded in minimal space out of the way by day, hammock and all remaining connected. Unless you’re very tall with a long hammock, you may be able to leave some of those segments collapsed as you lay in the temporarily smaller stand.
As for anchoring indoors, doors and windows closed near hinge points upon the anchor line are always my first go-tos. If a counterweight, we’d suggest a minimum of 1/3 body weight, 1/2 affording more security. A weight exceeding that of your body is fine but certainly overkill. You’d have to hang your entire body weight from the head end apex to lift a foot anchor weighing barely less than you, just like a beam scale with the feet as fulcrum: not a real use case.
This site and I believe also Hängemattenforum.de shows truly free-standing Tensa4 setups ideal for indoors. They are a bit more complicated, and not as roomy as the normal setup. But we are also prototyping and testing a kit of parts and instructions to improve both the simplicity and capacity issues of the methods already shown. We’re not yet sure what the demand may be for such a thing, but as long as free-standing function continues to come up as a must-have, we’ll keep at it.
This fits a 12’ hammock with foot end higher, unlike earlier free-standing configurations shown. Now imagine the trapezoidal base as a solid sheet of material that doubles as a mat for your shoes etc. and a roll-up bag for the stand with room for the few extra tubing sections used, tarp extensions, etc.
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