Hi tensa4 hangers!
Last summer I made my first tensa4 roadtrip. 5000 km of winding B roads through beautiful French national parks and the 1st WW trenches in the French and Belgian Ardennes. It wasn’t my first hammock trip, but the tensa4 gave me so much more freedom, not having to worry about finding two trees! My days were more relaxed and I never had to stop early searching for hammock trees.
Belgian Ardennes, along the river Ourthe:
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Chamonix - Mont Blanc, no tensa4 needed, amazing trees in the French Alps!
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Rain and fog in the French Dordogne:
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The tensa4 stand is almost perfect engineering. I am very impressed with the simplicity of the setup and small size when stored. It is light and easy to move when set up.
I did however lose a rubber end cap when moving in the middle of the night after finding a wasps nest right under my hammock. I found out the next morning and couldn’t find it. But I can probably get a similar one at my local hardwarestore.
The only annoyance was that after a long ride, the vibration would move some of the buttons inside the poles around, away from the holes. Sometimes more than an inch, making it hard to push them back in position. I’m not sure how to avoid this. Maybe @Latherdome and @Raftingtigger can amaze us once again! :-)
I’m 2 meter tall (6ft7). I have a WB XLC double layer and a huge DD hammocks tarp so I can more or less stand up under it and cover my bike when it rains. This was a challenge with the tensa4. I didnÂ’t order the tarp extension because it looked too small for my tarp.
I use my hiking poles instead:
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I have the hiking poles on the head end. The foot end is higher anyway, so the tarp ridgeline is horizontal. I made sure the foot-end could move independently. It worked great, but I couldn’t set up a porch without the poles.
I’m planning my next trip to Norway and I expect a lot more rain along the fjords. So I’m looking at bad weather tarps like the WB thunderfly or thunderfly.
Are there any tall hammockers who use this setup? I have a bad back and knees. I’m getting too old to crouch around. Any recommendations?
I finally found some time to share my trip with you, while recovering from total knee replacement surgery. Recovery is going well and I hope to be on the road again in spring.
Happy hanging!
My work as a virtual botanist (3D animation of my hand drawn plants):
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