How about change bridge bar to guy line, attached to suspension rope?
How about change bridge bar to guy line, attached to suspension rope?
Here's an idea clove hitch the rope around both trees that way the rope is fixed I.e. Each of the two free ends of the rope is secured in a manner where you cound hang off one side without needing your partner as a counterbalance
PF you are correct to one of the variables which is the different thickness' of the bark but I think that the other More factor of what you are specifically talking about with the maples is the time of year that you are in the trees. In the spring all bark is more lose and easy to separate from the wood because of the new growth. It certainly not all year around.
This approach, or using branches on each side of the tree is always the first choice, but we're not always (actually, not usually) lucky enough to get two properly spaced, healthy trees of sufficient girth. The idea of the hanger bar is to give us the right distance between the hammocks that the tree trunks and branches can't.
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This allows 2 hammocks to hang from same tree...although there is obviously shifting when one gets out of their hammock. I'm also interested in someone coming through with an easy, good method for hanging 2 hammocks together. Field test it and then let us know how it goes and what changes need to be made. http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...eader+hammocks
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If you use something the size of a jumbo mayan hammock, it easily fits two people side by side with extra hammock dividing between them...So it acts like two hammocks close together. To avoid shoulder-to-shoulder conflicts, sleep head-to-toe.
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Rather than tie the bar tightly to the tree to keep it from spinning under uneven weights distribution, and potentially shred the tree because of the amount of force that would be needed to stabilize the bar, wouldn't it be simpler to add four short poles with a "Y" on the top to put the outside limbs of the bar into to stabilize it?
You may end up with some holes in the ground...not sure if you could find a way to keep them from digging in unless you had some sort of platform underneath the ends of the poles to disperse the weight.
They'd also have to be sturdy enough to support the weight of the hangers.
They'd also have to be carried in and out, along with the bars and whatever you put under them to disperse the weight on the ground.
But that seems like a better plan that potentially damaging the trees.
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