Originally Posted by
nanok
for other people reading this thread : for supporting live humans (aka critical applications) the rule of thumb is a minimum of 5 times factor of safety to the expected maximum load. for hammocks, this means a minimum, for each suspension line, of 2x2x5xweight_of_monkey_in_hammock, if you want to be thorough. (2 because hangs where the angle is much less than the ideal 30 degrees are very common, 2 because the monkey moves, so will put some shock into the system, and 2g is not unreasonable). if one wants to be stingy, one might say 2x5, but that's as low as i would ever go.
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