Originally Posted by
BillyBob58
Thank you, that might be an advantageous way to go. I will have to try it.
I have 2 questions:
Q1: in the picture, #4024, of the triangle of cordage going to each stake lt and rt, it appears to me as though your cordage to the boom stake is connected(only) at the stake where it enters the ground. Is that right? But I thought the whole idea of the boom is that the cordage will be also looped around the boom, somewhere near the end of the boom. So that when the cordage lifts up on the end of the boom nearest the stand and hammock, it will act like a lever and actually push DOWN on the other end of the boom and the stake where it enters the ground. Do I have that right?
I hope so, because that is how I have been doing it. And so far it has held me, although sometimes when the soil seems very questionable I have backed it up with an orange stake. But, I can't tell afterwards that any significant pull has been applied to the back up stake.
Q2: I have asked this question a couple of times with no answer, though maybe I missed it. It seems to me there are probably some engineer folks here who would know the answer, and/or the designers, but I have not seen an answer. So, maybe no one knows? Seems like a good spot to try again. Question: if using a homemade boom that is considerably longer than the one that came with my commercial Tensa stand, is a stronger anchor more likely by wrapping the cordage around the boom closer to the stake(say, about the same distance as the one that comes with the store bought Tensa stand)? Or will it work better with the cordage wrapped around a home made boom further from the stake(closer to the hammock), say at a distance of 1 or 2 feet? Is there an advantage to one way over another? Or not?
It seems to me like the leverage would be greater with a longer boom, and that might be an advantage. Or at least different, and if not an advantage, then maybe a disadvantage. If indeed leverage is even a part of this whole boom stake thing? Is it?
Before I got my store bought Tensa ( excellent product! ), which came with 1 orange screw and 1 boom stake, I had been using a home made Tensa and boom stake. My DIY boom stake consisting of a 9" long tent stake from WM, run thru holes in scrap storage stand legs which are a couple of feet long and a couple of inches wide. I would usually run the stake thru a hole in one end, connect the cordage to that stake, and then wrap it around a biner that goes thru the holes in the DIY boom leg a foot or more closer to the stand than the ground stake.
I must admit, despite my paranoia, it has never appeared to even come close to pulling out. But I have always wondered: should I have that biner closer to the ground stake, or maybe even as far away from the ground stake as the length of the 2 foot long boom allows? Thoughts, anyone? TIA!
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