Shook here. I'm laying out of my Dutch word chameleon
Strung up and my tents a forest and it's a tense ax he drones stand and it's really light you
Know it's like anything in the hammock world after you've set it up and worked with it a couple of times
It's a lot easier the first time you're gonna be scratching your head
I'm gonna give you just a quick look at it today and
How you might go about hooking a hammock up on it? The easiest way to do that. What's beautiful about it?
It packs down to about this big. There. It is right there. And how much does it weigh?
It's just a little slightly over 11 pounds
So you can put it in your motorcycle. You can keep it in your car for those situations when you
Cannot find trees to put your hammock or when you are not allowed to
Pitch a hammock and yes that does happen a lot of state parks including some of the Minnesota state parks at the drive-in sites
They don't want you pitching a Hammacher. It's not so much the hammock. It's hanging anything off trees
And they also require that you stay on a tent pad and you can't always find trees that cover those tent pads, right
So this is where something like this comes in, of course, you can put your tarp on it
you can put your tarp in porch mode and
So here's what you're gonna get
With your tents outdoor you get your carry bag
You get your four four pole sections and size comparison. There's my hand
These are for three pole sections a three pole section will made up with a four pole section to make one pole
you get your two or
inch screws
Get your instructions and
Here are your four lines the solid
Gray, is your ridgeline
The orange with the two toggles on it
Solid orange is your baseline
the yellow with the shot cord is your head tether and
the orange and gray with one toggle is
Your foot tether to stake it to the ground
There we are looking at the orange screw that my friends runs up
And here we have what is called a UCR an adjustable piece of AM steel
that will go up to the foot end of the tensile force and
It's comprised of four aluminum poles
They just made the new ones that are anodized so you don't get black all over your hands when you put it together
the poles
Hold together
With your little buttons there
Here's where the legs go together on each side held together
With another UCR and
a toggle in a loop right there
And this is used to create the width of your base
And that's gonna vary depending on you your height and the length of your hammock
Here we go to the head end
here we have the head tether, which is new and it has a
Piece of shock cord because you really don't want the head tether to be tight. It's to keep it from tipping over
When you get in and out of the hammock you see this line right here this is very important
This is my head end and I want to keep my feet on this side if I step over here
I may get what you call Mouse trapping and I'm gonna show you that in just a little bit and that's gonna be fun
But what prevents that is
This line though. We don't want this tied down so tight that it doesn't move
It needs to have a little give alright, the stander needs to be able to do that
That goes down to to one of the big orange screws
Alright the tensest and comes with its own ridge line right here
Which is a UCR
Which is called a utility
constrictor rope
Here is what makes the UCR the UCR
The am steel runs inside of itself
Part of it. This part is the constrictor. That is the am still running through
runs through this constrictor and out and
Then what happens is you end up having two lines. Alright, and
This is my end. So what this does and I use this two piece of shock cord here to hold the loose dangling end
Otherwise, it's just gonna be hanging down. All right, you can tie it off do whatever you want. But that adjusts
This part of this stand here's your orange screw and here is the tube it comes in
So we'll put the orange screw into the ground
And get it started I'm gonna take the tube
Slide it through and as we're pressing down slightly start pushing that into the ground and start screwing it in
Now
Especially for the foot end. You don't want it sticking up like that. You want to get this thing all the way down?
And that's for your safety
Boom and now my tether will hook right there. So make sure you get that all the way down
taking it out as the fun part put that back in and just
Now of course the easiest hammock suspension on any stand including the tensest and here's your good ol cinch buckle and strap
Suspension. Alright, I'm using a Dutch clip on the end of this strap, but
This strap also has a loop that I could loop through but for my purposes, I'm just gonna hook my
My Dutch clip right around there. This is holding my strap. And of course the easiest way is just to have your cinch buckle suspension
Pull that right on up to where you want it on your hammock
Good to go and you're just adjust either end where you want it and you have infinite adjustability
With the since buckle and strap, which is really common with hammocks
So I would say this is your all-round easiest way to do it
Alright, this is the foot end of my chameleon my Dutch wear hammock. This is the chameleon
It has a continual loop with just an am still loop hooked on the end normally
I just hook my Dutch beaner and my Whoopie sling onto that I took it off on the head end
I just left it all on there. This is the foot end of the Dutch wear chameleon
I was talking about this is the orange continual loop. Here's a quick little look at some continual loops
It's just a piece of AM steel that's formed into a loop spliced into itself right there where its thickest
That's a Dutch beaner on that one. This is an 8 inch
This is a 15 inch. I
Needed that length on this hammock to get all my adjustments, right so poles weren't touching my head or that my feet
we're not touching this outside pole when I was laying in my hammock that
Meant I had to spread the base the tooth where the legs come together on the ground spread that out
There's a little bit of tweaking. I'm gonna I'm gonna say that a couple tongue
There's a little bit of tweaking there's gonna be a little bit of tweaking but once it's said it's set so I put my beaner
Onto that continual loop and then I can kind of pull in because that head end has a little give and just wrap it
I'm just gonna put one more wrap just for fun now
I want to show you that a little bit of give that this has here
Alright, you want a little bit of give on this head end. Alright, you don't want it. So it doesn't move at all
so when you tie this on make sure yella am still is loose so that
Piece of shot court can do its job. Okay on my head in this is my
Whoopie sling hanging right there
I'll just wind that up later, but it is on this continual loop, which is this gray piece of AM steel and that
Is just hooked
Right here over
That pole right there and I do that pole for my head end which runs down this way
And I try to when I hook it up keep this pole
So it's on the outside not on the inside
And that gives me a little bit more head clearance because I lay with my head to the right and my feet to the left
when I'm laying in the hammock, then my head is not tapping there and
That's one of the little things you're gonna find the first time you may set your hammock up
You may notice that your head is tapping a pole or your feet are tapping a pole. So you're gonna have to
Kind of widen your base here a little bit
Alright and maybe do a little adjusting on
this v-shape
Now the Beckett hitch. Are you ready for this now? I'm gonna use just a hammock tree strap for this first one
As a loop on the end that's gonna put my strap
Through the loop
And hook that over one end right here
There's my hammock in with the continual loop. I'm gonna put my strap
through
That loop right there. I'm gonna pull
Pull it pinch it and bring it through tie it off
BAM and now I'll get in the hammock
Now here's what's nice about the Becket hitch when I want to be done I just take the loose end pull
It's right there through my continual loop and I'm done
I'm gonna try that again with a little piece of Kevlar tree strap. It's just a little a
Little lighter to do and maybe it'll be easier to see the knot. I'm pulling tight. I'm pinching off. I'm looping through here
See that in winter. This is the loop and that loop comes right down through there
All right, and then quickly what I want to do with this slippery half hitch is get it up
So it doesn't slide down and you've got the perfect little place right there
I'm seeing my
Continual loop am I not everything is not on this side of it, but it's on the inside
That's a good feeling
It's just a really nice not for hammock stands because you can just get the right
Distances sometimes it's just a matter of that to have the hang you want and this is for people that aren't using
straps and cinch buckle, so that is your
easiest way to adjust hammocks on a stand
And then I'm good to get in I've enough space for an under quilt
And getting in and out on the proper side course Department to get out on this side
Without that head end being tethered this thing would fold up on me
Not really gonna get hurt because you know, it's gonna fly over my head. Okay, so here comes the part
I know you've been waiting for because I know I have I'm gonna sit in there and get out and
I took off the head tether line that holds the head end. So it's pretty much just
Hanging by the foot end and I am able to get in and out that way
But we'll see if I step across that line. You're gonna see what happens. So the head tether is removed
No counterweight no anything and I'm on the proper side of the space line. I'm on this side
obtuse
All is good
Now if I were to get sloppy and get out and sit on this side
It's not really gonna hurt you that bad but it does tear your psyche out a little bit on
I'm a little bit dark inside right now. I
Got it twisted and tested
So this time I'm gonna take the bag it comes in and just two logs
And I'll put these two logs in the bag hang that off the headend ready to fold
Pull it back and my hammock hook that back up
And here's what you do
You can see that when you set it up
It's always a little better to have a hammock at a slight angle
Towards your head because then you settle back and you're not sliding in towards your feet
So now what I'm gonna do is just grab the bag with the two logs
And I'm just hanging that right off
the head end
As a counterweight
This cord is undone
So again after you after you've used a stand a few times and after hittas
Mouse trapped on you. You learned pretty quickly to stay on the right side the head side of the baseline
You see our LAN and what that's gonna do is it gives you just a little you buy a little time?
with that wait
I'm sort of stepping over but you're gonna feel that weight before it just flies and tacos
So you just get your weight back this way and get out and this is my favorite stand now. I love it. I really do
But it comes with the head tether and that's gonna end all the problems
I'd also like to mention that I bias my hammock on here when it's in the stand and by that I mean
My foot end. There's a little more space here
Than there is on the head end
So I want my head closer to this side so that when I step out my feet stay on
This side of the line if I bias that head my feet automatically
stay on the right side of
This cord here and not the wrong side. Now. This is very important. I
Don't profess to know a lot about science
No, I'm more of a looker than an academic and you have your weight in this tensest and these poles right here
The compression is going this way along the pole
Alright, so you don't want to push out on these poles much
So don't get in the habit grabbing these poles when you get out you can lightly touch it
But you don't want to pull it even says it on there somewhere do not pull in or out on these poles
Because it's part of the science of this tent Sahid wrong type shape and the forces that make it able to
Hold a person in a hammock and just one more reminder until you get a little experience on this thing
With that shape right there
Don't get it. So it's so
vide like this
Safer to play it out a little bit. Alright, so as I undo this foot in
I can lay it back like that. And then when you go to set it up, you're just gonna kind of pull it up
Walk it over
But let's take a look at at the toggle of how I kind of hook the
foot end the main suspension you see are into the
Big orange snake. This is one of Dutchess gizmos that is made to act as a stopper
But Cheryl and Todd who are the owners of tenths of 4
are using these so that is
what's holding it and what you'll do is you'll go through and
then you'll take the loop and you'll simply put that through and just
make sure that
That is hooked up. Right and that's what holds the foot end
And then when I get in that's what's holding me if I balance around a little bit
There you go
Finding the perfect hammock stand is really hard. They either ride you too close to the ground. They're not long enough
They're way too heavy. I like this one for me a guy that likes light stuff. It's small
I can keep it in a car setting a tarp up on it is not difficult at all
just kind of run your tarp across the top but the times I've set my tarp on mine no problem at all and in fact
Staking it out gives a stand even a little bit more stability. I'll secure in Sector seven. Whoa, buddy
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