My First Hang - DIY Gathered End. Advice appreciated.

[Trailrider74]

Thanks Nodust. I definitely need to experiment more with sag and foot/head height.

[MAD777]

Aaron, it sounds like you've done your homework and applied it all correctly. It's just a matter of tweaking now.
One thing to remember is that the centerline tightness in caused by us! That's where the pressure of our center of gravity is. If you just get out of the hammock, it will go away.
In other words, you didn't do anything wrong. The ridge is just something we try to mitigate and work around as much as possible. Some tricks to mitigate it somewhat are mini spreader bar or cutting the hammock ends on a curve (so the centerline is longer than the edges).

[AaronMB]

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I appreciate them.

Because it's problematic hanging in/at my apartment--and I don't want to be limited to having to run to the park to play!--I couldn't resist a TurtleDog Stand. So I set 'er up in the living room after re-whipping...

I pulled the whipping and tried it like Just Jeff's suggests - standard whipping, but with an inch or two of the sides pulled. It made a little, but noticeable difference; enough to keep me wondering and thinking ahead to the next four yards of material.

"I want to try it." The wife mused. She slipped in and after a few seconds of scooting around, "Oh yeah."
"Yeah?" I asked. "Try going diagonally like you saw me doing and see how it feels." She shifted.
"Oh yeah!" And she let out another "oh yeah" as she scooted around some more. She flipped on her other side, curled up, flipped over again, all-the-while smiling. "This is comfortable no matter what I do. We should tried these backpacking."

She even likes the color.


Either way, I need to make another. Ha.