hello everybody it is shug here and today what I'm gonna do is hang to my hammocks
in real time that sounds like a snooze fest show us shoosh D hammock in the
real time good would you shoosh why you don't do it actually I always thought
that would be boring to people to sit there and have me sort of putting up the
hammock in real time but apparently there's a few people that need to see
that and that's what I'm going to do here today I'm gonna do it right here in
my in my backyard where I always hang my hammock so now I don't have two trees
perfectly spaced but I'll be using one tree and I'm going to use the hook on
the end there so let's just pretend that hook in my fence is a tree use your
imaginations I know you can so I thought I'd hang today my Dutch wear chameleon
and this one has the Whoopie sling suspension and then my green bean the
new 2.0 hammock a little bit of a shorter hammock a usually use it with my
pod system and I'm gonna hang that and that just has straps on it and kind of
hooks on with either a carabiner or a Dutch clip and I may show one of each so
the first time that Kyle set up today is my green bean hammock and I have it
right here in the black bishop bag which is actually green so let's check it out
in real time this would be my head in
and I'm just gonna take my this is my strap that has a Dutch clip on it rather
than using a carabiner a little bit lighter and I like them
this is gonna be my head in I'm going for a 30 degree angle usually for me
that's about head high and then what I do is I have my hammock out of the black
Bishop bag I'll go to my simulated tree here and hook that on I'm just gonna use
a beaner on this end that will go right there
making sure that my buckles are set right and not twisted I like my hammock
just so I can sit in it like a chair about this high I'm gonna want my foot
end a little bit higher I know that right now pull that up
and I'll let this in down a little bit
I'm gonna turn my back on you there
buckle and done I'm not really used to this one that much all right
and that'll do it right there
pretty much real-time now you can kind of see the angle of my hammock I like
you can look at my ridgeline right there this red line and see that there is a an
incline I always like my feet a little bit higher a lot of people like their
foot end higher in the hammock and people ask because it pushes the mass of
your body sort of from your Oh from your where your legs attached to your body on
up is the you know that's the mass of your body and you want it kind of
sliding towards your head in to put you in the right spot so that your feet
aren't sliding down toward the end of the hammock I just find myself more
comfortable there most people do but you know this isn't an exact science it's
not even a rocket science but it is a science so you're just going to have to
always figure out how you like your hammock hung but that's basically it
shoes could we see you take a Deanna key and down from where it is shoes well
alright
so took it down wrap the straps back up you know if they were wet or if they had
SAP on it I would put these straps inside of a baggie but they're not so
for this purpose I'm just putting it right back in the black Bishop bag so
that is really just putting up and taken down a hammock with the strap suspension
which is really I find to be the easier of all suspensions to figure out in the
beginning a little bulkier but now in real time I will put up my Dutch we're a
chameleon and my chosen method is using tree straps Marlinspike knot with a
toggle and Whoopie slings you might take a moment longer but I just I have no
other reason then it's just the way I enjoy doing it so we'll take a look at
that in real time one slight caveat I'd like to mention
here because I am using my fence and a hook I have on there I won't be tying
the tree strap around the tree of course so factor in a couple of seconds first
things first in my stuff sack I always leave a little
bit of my Whoopie sling hanging out knowing that is my head end I keep my
tree straps and my toggles in a baggie that way if they're wet I just put them
back in this bag if they've got SAP on them or for whatever reason that has a
larks head so I can keep that hooked through the loop of the webbing where I
have my desk lift and once I'm out camping I usually just leave my toggle
in my strap when I take it down every day
that's my Dutch clip took on I'll tie at Marlinspike knot and slip my toggle in
that now normally what I would do here would walk down to the other tree and
put up my strap and my toggle and my Marlinspike but I'm going to be hanging
it off a hook right here so I'm gonna skip that step Whoopie sling on to the
toggle even though I'm just doing it loosely and I'll double check it before
I sit in it I always make sure that it's on the knot and not on the top I pull
out my other in down here to my simulated tree strap slide my
double-ended stuff sack down to this end here's where I start making my
adjustments
and all the while I'm doing it I'm constantly just checking the end of my
Whoopie sling is sitting on my Marlinspike toggle right so that it
doesn't fall when I sit in to test it know I'm gonna want my foot head a
little bit higher a little lower
that is pretty much it maybe just a little bit of tweaking I might just
lower the head end just a little bit a part of the fun is to get it hung and
then go well let me bring it down to in one quarter inches and I'll loosen that
up just a hair make sure to milk my berry you don't
know what that means you need to find out but it's about just right real time
in a fairly controlled environment out in the woods
might take longer might take shorter but there's always just a couple of
back-and-forth adjustments to make at the end once in a while you just nail it
but usually not I was talking about it when I was hooking it up so there's my
toggle and there's a little you know a little lanyard I have on there and what
I do there's my Dutch clip but I kind of have that little lanyard is running
running through the loop of my strap there that way I know this is how I wrap
it up when I finished my trip that way I know my toggle is there so normally each
night when I keep it in when I'm done hanging I just leave the toggle hooked
right into the tree strap and wrap it up and put it back with my hammock I
wouldn't take the time to do this every night this is just what I do when I kind
of get home and I'm straightening out everything just to know that my toggle
is hooked on my my tree strap and normally I bring a tree strap I bring
one that's six feet one that's five feet so here's my thoughts on hanging
hammocks a lot of people that are new get into hammocks and they're thinking
man I can have that hammock strung up before my friend gets his tent up well
if that's your thing go ahead when you're gonna be sleeping in that hammock
for the night you really want to get it set well I'm kind of picky being Hickory
both we spend time walking around looking for trees and a little area for
me it comes in to what's on the ground I don't want a muddy spot I think about my
breakfast from the hamakom where I'm going to be laying and what what
I'll be looking at when I lay there normally looking for trees that are
somewhere between 14 and 17 feet apart that's kind of the sweet spot but you
know you don't always have that option when you stop for the day sometimes a
tree's or you'll find them really wide and sometimes they're really close and
sometimes are the perfect trees but their stuff just growing in between them
I've noticed when I get to campsites with tempters there's always some flat
tent spots they get their tent out and throw it down on the flat spot they
pitch it they throw their sleeping bag and blow up their pad and put it in
there and they're done amateurs we're dealing with under quilts
or putting your pad in the hammock your top quilts hanging your tarp I find
setting my hammock on my tarp is kind of my kind of some of my fun time I really
enjoy it you know just constantly you love tweaking and playing with it that's
just me that's the part of hammocks that drives a lot of people crazy they don't
enjoy the tweaking and the setting you know it's getting that foot end right
getting that sweet spot the distance from the ground I love it so my normal
thing is just to get the tamp a drop a pack I might go get some water first and
fill up all my waters I checked the perimeter I look and see what's around I
see what's behind me in the woods if the trail if I came in on the trail and it
this way I like to look and see what's behind me see what's around me that I
might miss and then I start looking for the perfect trees I might find a sweet
spot back in the woods by little by little creek or branch or something like
that so I'm never in a rush with it to me the end of the day is playing with my
gear get the hammock set up might sit and lay in the hammock for a second then
a guy said I gotta get up man I'm getting too lazy get the tarp pitched or
at least get it strong and have it in the snakes Gibbs looking at the night I
almost always deploy my tarp just cuz I've had pine needles falling in my face
at a spider drop on my face once I didn't like that at all a lot of people
think hammocks are gonna be lighter than tents well if you're already a
lightweight tent guy maybe not now you can get ultra lightweight hammocks they
tend to be shorter they tend to be a lighter material that's thinner so you
have to watch how much weight it'll bear instead of using seven sixty fourth am
steel like here is a suspension or straps a lot of people use this really
thin Dyneema and the lightest straps they can get and
personally I just don't like to take a chance on my hammock suspension I don't
want my hammock ripping or dropping in the middle of the night so I'm willing
to carry an ounce or two extra but when you get into ultra lightweight hammocks
you start losing length and I think sometimes you lose comfort there at
least for me some people like a shorter hammock just
like there's a few people that like their hammocks strung out straight and
tight the normal rule is generally a 30-degree hang that's just a rule of
thumb just a place to start not set in stone for me that 30 degree
is usually about head high neck high sometimes on the head end head the top
of my head or even higher sometimes on the foot in the joint having this talk
with you and a little cup of a medallion or espresso with some milk in it that I
made frothy so it is very fancy sitting out here you enjoy your camping time
whatever it is you do however it is you do it tent tarp bivi bag hammock I don't
care teepee hot tent I don't care sleep on the ground like a
cowboy I don't care that's your camping that's you you do it how you want to do
it I say it a lot now say it again all secure in Sector 7 whoo buddy
look darling Hanover