this is a video on the tenza trekking trees now it's a reissue because all of this information
about the tenza trekking trees was sort of buried and hidden in a trip video I did with wander and
Fool on the North Country Trail last fall and I kind of had it included in that because it
was the first time I used it so I just did this video on hammock cons and pros and a few people
have asked me about that I mentioned there are you know hammock stands you could use in a meadow or
if you only have one tree or no trees so I'm just cutting out the tenza tree part and tens
has a lot of great items for stands and poles and a lot of things for getting a hammock up in
the air when you don't have trees or you can't use trees in certain areas like state parks so
that's what this is so I hope it's informational to you. I'm Shug by the way good day to you
let's take a look at the tenza trekking tree and what I'm using I was carrying
it I don't know if you noticed but I was using two different hiking poles
and here I'm using the tensapol which is a hiking pole
and it is staked out to hold my hammock and it goes out two guidelines I've got a boom stake
here I've got that's about a good 12 to maybe 16 inch steak that goes in the ground that sits
on this piece of orange aluminum which comes out that weighs nothing and then you kind of wrap your
sling around it with the technique so it won't pull off just kind of do that little twist
so it's pulling that way this pushes in the ground instead of pulling that stake forward
and just tighten your Whoopi sling right up here and you milk your Berry
tie yourself a slippery half hitch you got two of those roughly six feet apart
this is what Todd and Cheryl say and then I take this section which is the actually the
foot of my hiking pole when I'm using it and it screws into the top here on this little hub
you can see where my Whoopi slings hook on these two and then I use the continual Loop
off the end of my hammock look to that one and then I'm just
on a tree with this one with my standard whoopie sling going to my tree strap with the Marlin
Spike hitch and my toggle on this good old tree here thank you buddy appreciate you holding me
all right here's what the hiking pole looks like well what they call the tenza trekking tree
and this is it in hiking pole mode these are the little Hub pieces for hooking your
whoopee slings on for staking out and your hammock continual Loop two 15 and a half inch steaks two
pieces of aluminum this is the footer bar so when you set it up in Hammock mode you take
this end piece off here which is like any regular hiking pole should take the hiking pole part off
and you add what they call the foot you have this flat foot end
this piece of Pole right here and that just screws into the end
that's how it's going to sit on the ground the one thing you do when you
get ready to hang the hammock off of it so we're converting from hiking pole mode
to support mode the end of your hiking pole and you put it on the top
now you this is kind of optional this is for um supporting your tarp
and so I'm going to run my tarp over this and you still have to stake out your tarp
this doesn't have the support to really hold everything I really recommend reading all their
directions and looking at their stuff but your tarp is going to go over that and it keeps it
a little bit off your face from when you hang your hammock on there so for this one I'm just
going to use my War Bonnet El Dorado hammock it doesn't matter what hammock you use with
this or what type of suspension I just happen to have Whoopi sling suspension on mine but
the important part for the head end is to have a lot of hammocks have this is this continual Loop
all these components are laid out now I've got my staking system and I choose to use the boom Stakes
they also offer the orange big orange stakes or these other things called Peggy screws but right
now I prefer the boom stake I have the orange top from my hiking pole which is now replaced with the
foot end that my tarp will go over I'm going to put this away in a safe place for now my pocket
what I'm going to do first here is go ahead and put my continual Loop
onto The Hub here the loop is hooked on that little hook then I'm going to figure
about where the pole is going to go want it leaning at I don't want it up like this
wandered at an angle in that you know basic vicinity I'm going to lay it down
and now I'm going to hook up the wuppy slings on there and lay them
out in a V with roughly six feet maybe just a little more and I'm not really measuring
this part right here on the dark color and hook it on one of those hubs like that
and I'm going to do the same with the other Whoopi sling
roughly six feet apart so I know I'm gonna go over the top this end of my whoopee sling and
I want this orange part to be sitting as flat on the ground so my steak's going to go in at
a slight angle I got really hard ground here I'm going to pound this with a piece of wood all right
the trick to this is you take the the Whoopi sling line
and I'm going to make a loop and that slides over the end of the boom stake so it's pulling
on itself you want to get fairly close to the end I'll give that a couple more taps
both are in but because I know I got super hard soil here
they're going to stick up and I know they're going to hold but when I was just camping with
wandering full they were all the way down in the ground now I'm going to lift the pole up
get it
at an angle I can already say I got to tighten this whoopee swing already
I'm going to tighten both of these at the top
and that the pole is in line with the tree and the hammock and that angle is what I'm doing right now
because that's getting my head down a little bit and my foot up
so now it's time for the test sit right after tighten these whoopee slings a little if you're
not familiar with the Whoopi sling I've got videos on them but you're pulling this cord
this orange cord through this constrictor I'm going to pull this one a little bit tight and
I'm going to do what you call milking your Berry which means just running my fingers down
that line to tighten that constrictor now again I can't tell you how important it is to milk
that Berry it just means running your fingers down this and just to make sure it doesn't slip
I'm just going to tie what they call a slippery half hitch and what that is it's just kind of a
half knot like that doesn't even have to be super tight and it's called slippery because I can just
pull it out when I'm done all right the magic moment this is where I do my first test sit
when I do that looking out at those boom Stakes you know you want to you're testing to see if
you can see those Stakes moving and I'm just going to lightly very lightly bounce up and down
simulating the motion you do just getting in and out of your hammock
let's see if these boom Stakes are pulling a little bit of you know a little bit of pull
is fine but you don't want these things pulling forward so let's see I'm going back to sit in it
and I'm bouncing
so yeah I probably readjust this one was coming a little off the ground
that's pretty much because I don't have this hammer down all the way
all right hiking pole without the strap we're looking at 15.3 ounces or 434 grams
you're probably curious what the stakes are by themselves one steak 15 and a half inches is 3.2
ounces or 91.5 grams now let's put it all together now we have two steaks
two pieces of aluminum the footer the hiking pole the two whoopee slings
let's just go ahead and add the hand Loop and the stuff sack
and we're looking at one pound 14 ounces
862 grams I don't think that's bad at all plus you're using the pole to hike
I like it I like it a lot it opens a lot of options
blue buddy all secure in sector seven