Hammock Camping/Everyday Life Crossover

[timabababaluka]

This is Declan:



He is a lovely child, but there are 27,563 things that he does that annoy/terrify me. Climbing on the table and running around is his current favorite (usually he does this with scissors in his hand (for the last two months I have been trying to figure out where/how he is getting the @#*$&%!! scissors--all efforts have availed me nothing)). I used to be able to push all the chairs in and that would keep him floor-bound, but a week ago he discovered he could push the chairs back out. Daddy has decided that this must end.

This is a hank of mule tape:



I pulled this from my old suspension after I swapped it out for some whoopies, knowing that it would come in handy some day--little did I know it would become The Tabletop Solution:



Mule tape larksheaded around a chair post, wrapped around the backs of the chairs, back through a chair post from the original chair, and into a trucker's hitch--HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW, LITTLE BOY!!! Only 27,562 more things to go.

All this got me to thinking. Bits and pieces of hammock camping have started spilling in to my everyday life. Take, for example, the parabiner key ring:



Complete with spliced braided mason's line quick release, the ring is shown in pocket lanyard mode.

Then there is the back garage door braided mason's line gate-latch pull:



Some of you are probably wondering "Hey, is that a locked brummel you're sporting there?" Why, yes it is. I think it offsets the cracked stucco rather nicely... thanks for noticing .

Got these Converse All-Stars at the local Salvation Army for $5.00. Problem--they came with no laces. Yup! That's gutted white paracord you're looking at. Did that half a year ago, and I've been too forgetful/lazy to replace it:



Took some scrap pieces of mule tape and used them to tie up a pair of huaraches I made from an old truck tire tread I found on the side of the road--ah, mule tape... is there nothing you can't do? :



I'm certain there's more, but I can't think of anything else right now; however, it just goes to show you that Hammock Forums is literally a way of life.

So, I'm terribly curious: what hammock-campy things have you adapted to suit your everyday life? There's got to be some really cool ideas out there--I'd love to see them .

[Sidewinder]

Whoopie dog leash made out of amsteel. Works great!

[Rug]

Whoopie dog leash made out of amsteel. Works great!

In addition to that, I posted awhile ago about a great use for that crappy nylon tree-straps that we all end up collecting but not using.

A Dog harness! setup like a sled-dog where it crosses at the chest-bone, and goes back to join behind the tail.

[sunny]

Now that is multi-purposing at its finest!

Sunny

[Shug]

Right goodie of some uses and intel there feller!
Sounds like a fun kid....scissor toter!
Shug

[timabababaluka]

Whoopie dog leash made out of amsteel. Works great!

In addition to that, I posted awhile ago about a great use for that crappy nylon tree-straps that we all end up collecting but not using.

A Dog harness! setup like a sled-dog where it crosses at the chest-bone, and goes back to join behind the tail.

Darn it! Your replies have got me thinking that maybe I have been going about this backwards. I've been tying up the wrong things... time to fit the boy with a mule tape harness .

(although I'm pretty sure the Missus is going to veto my resolution for the mandatory harnessing of toddlers--I'm calling it STUCK: Safe Toddlers Under Careful Keeping. Sadly, the Missus, while painfully strict in most household matters, is surprisingly liberal in her views on the ambulatory rights of toddlers. If logic fails, perhaps a filibuster...)

[timabababaluka]

Right goodie of some uses and intel there feller!
Sounds like a fun kid....scissor toter!
Shug

I guess it could be worse. It could be denatured alcohol and a lighter (don't know where he'd get THAT from ).

[harrell79cj5]

Whoopie dog leash made out of amsteel. Works great!

I made a amsteel tie out for our dog(just for backpacking). He likes to chew and the amsteel works great at a light weight! If it weren't for hammocks I wouldnt know about amsteel!

[SilvrSurfr]

My canoe is suspended by pully from the garage ceiling. After my first rope splice, I realized I could go "no-knots" on the canoe suspension system. Now the pully ropes are terminated in closed loops, and I connect the canoe to the ropes with soft shackles. Easy peezy!

And the wife keeps taking my tree straps for a dog leash. When I walk Peanut, I use an s-biner to connect leash to harness or collar.

[DivaB]

In another 2 months he'll have the mule tape figured out and be using it just as dangerously as scissors. My son, when he was 3 started doing flips from the couch to the love seat!! Scared the living crap out of me. I had to just zero in on it since he was doing some pretty scary things and put him in gymnastics. There he learned control, safer practices and had an outlet for those stunts he was pulling. It certainly made it easier at home because he wasn't so "driven" to do those crazy things.......well, ok, there was a little incident off the neighbors bunk beds, but we won't go there.

He's really cute!! Enjoy these years, they go by super fast.