you got a hammock is your ridge line too tight is your ridge line just right
is your ridge line a little loose well let me tell you what silly goose i can help you with that
now there's a theory that the ridgeline should just bend about that much now i don't know who
made that up mine's a little loose right now we're going to cover how to tighten that up when you're
sitting in it so it's not in your face and we're also just going to cover and i keep saying we but
it's just me here all by myself going to cover how to loosen up this ridge line when it's super
tight when you hang your hammock it's real easy to do all right and we'll look at that because that
has been the question that has come up several times during the last couple of months people
have reached out to me and i've been pondering it because i have done videos on ridgelines before
and if you want to check those out just click that i right in the corner of the box here look down
below in that box below this video and click those links but a couple of things i'm going to show you
today how to tighten up this loose ridge line when you're sitting and because that's annoying
that just gets on my nerves and also how to loosen it up when you've hung your
hammock and you lay back in there and that thing just feels tight as a drum
now my hammock is hooked up right here on my fence and we're just going to pretend that is a tree
and that is roughly your 30 degree angle which is if i were to lay my hand put my finger like that
you can see that my finger and thumb that that line runs just right across the top of them so
you just put your hand out like that and that is about a 30 degree angle maybe 32 maybe 28
this is my head end suspension which is you know as i'm standing here in the ground it is
about equal with uh higher my eyebrows and on my fence over here
a little bit lower i'd say you know right around where my nose is and the hammock
i'm in right now is my warbonnet el dorado basically the xlc with no shelf built into it
the ridgeline on this comes installed it's a prefix length and that's because of the bug net
you can't lengthen it because then you're going to end up straining your bug net and tearing it
you can shorten it a little bit all right and we'll cover that in a second but as i lay back
right now this is pretty tight i can bend it a little bit there's times i've laid in my hammock
and man i cannot even bend that thing it is just so tight uh this am still is not gonna break
you're probably gonna be fine doing this but i know a lot of new hamburgers like to
go by the rules and they like to know how to loosen that up but what i'm gonna do
to loosen this up is come on over here with me now it's real easy so this is what i'm going to do
i'm going to raise my suspension up the tree
this is my head end and i'm going to put it up a good little bit here that puts our hammock
a little bit high so i'm also going to come down here to my simulated fence tree
and i'm going to go up to my next hook so i'm hooking that up as actually as high as
i can on that fence so what's happened there is i have raised it up and now my hammock is
is a lot higher than i like it i like to have my hammock so i can sit in it and have my feet
just comfortably on the ground that works for me i'm gonna go down to the head end and
let out my whoopee sling now if you had a cinch buckle
or a daisy chain webbing or whatever kind of uh suspension you have i'm just let it out
so i'm taking my whoopie swing and i'm just gonna
i'm gonna let it out so now i'm getting lower to the ground i'm
gonna do that same thing on my foot in just a little bit just a little bit here
it's important with the war bonnet i want my hammock so it's hanging where my foot end is
high that's the recommended thing for a war bonnet i do it with all my hammocks because it slides me
into the spot i like now i'm probably a little low here so i'm going to bring that up a little bit
now i'm going to put myself in said hammock now when i lay back i can give that thing the proper
bend and to fix that just by sliding my suspension up the trees more and then releasing my suspension
loosening it to get my hammock back lower to the ground now one thing when i'm camping solo
i tend to spend more time in the hammock because i'm i'm hanging out in it a good bit you know
so and i particularly like my warbonnet hammocks because that bug net supports my back so i can
just sit up at camp and watch the world go by look at the water and stare at the trees but
you can see right now that my ridge line is at a good place where i'm laying back but it's a
little bit loose when i'm sitting around now a lot of ridge lines these days are made out of
whoopie slings and you can adjust them but you want it back to your little place where uh the
ridgeline gives your sweet spot and if you don't know what i'm talking about once again refer to
those videos up there and you'll find out what the heck i'm talking about but for the average camper
if you're going to sit around for the day and you want this thing tightened up
uh here's a really good fix for it is get yourself a little mini carabiner you can
see how small that is in my hand these are like the ones i used to you know hold my
underquilts on in fact this one is from jacks or better so you're gonna take the mini carabiner
and just put it on your ridge line like that okay so i've hooked it on
and now i'm just gonna take it and wrap it over so it's just wrapped through like that
now to shorten it and i know for this one i'm going to give it one two three
four wraps right there okay this is a temporary fix i'm going to let that out
before i crash out at night and crawl back in when i'm laying flat out that ridge line
is above my head it's not dangling in front of my face anymore and for that i am thankful
that's just because of those four wraps i put in right down there on that little mini carabiner
now you're probably wondering should what happens if you do lay back now if i if i forget to take
them out when i crash at night uh yeah it it tightens up the ridge line a little bit and it
will put a strain on that little mini carabiner so you got to make a note to yourself before you go
and get comfortable in your hammock for some snooze time to simply take those four wraps out
or you know leave one on and that'll lift your ridge line up and get it out of your face
yeah we are having our false spring here in minnesota it's it got up to 60 degrees
at one point today it's back down to about 52 now but our snow is melting but we ain't done
it's gonna get cold again and we will have snow again so i'm just leaving everything a mess
but the ice skating's over the rink is ruined uh meg's having eye surgery this week and her mom
fell and is in the hospital and she's 94 so we're having some issues with the family i was hoping
to get in camp but family comes first so i got to stick around and i've got to be meg's valet driver
butler footman night nurse dresser now she'll be fine she's got having cataract surgery and
getting some lenses put in pretty cool so uh you know i want to go camping it's but it's just an
icy cruddy muddy time to go camping and well we'll see i might wait till it's actually spring i i
miss true winter i miss the sub-zeros this is my least favorite time of year when it's just
melty and it's warming up it's still got ice and uh corn snow and it's just i don't know son
could have used a lot less words on that been more taciturn succinct maybe a little
bit reserved tight-lipped reticent but you went on and on on and on yeah way too much palava
careless is what you were chatty keep it short and sweet pithy that's what i'm saying for next time
i just spit on your tripod
all secured sector seven woo buddy
right in the kisser
whew
whoo still got it it's all secure in sector seven
you