Pole support for hammock on open ground.

Loiq said:
I bought a thing from Ram mounts and made an ground anchor of sorts it sort of worked will try and find a picture of the thing
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Old time trappers used to use a buried stake to hold bears and big game. The holding power of a buried anchor is immense. They used a hinge system to push the anchor into the ground end on, with the snare wire attached amidships, so the anchor flattened out underground. Less ground pressure to push it in end on, impossible to pull out without digging it up, unless there was a trip line attached to one end, so it would come back out the way it went in.
 
The rain cleared and I had another go with the shortened tarp poles, just using 2 sections to make the pole suspension 1.2m, the same as the commercial Trekking Treez, which support hammocks using just the hiking sticks and guyed like I am trying to do. I didn't even get to sit before the guys pulled out, the turf is very dry mind and I didn't get the anchors fully in, but longer guy lines will be btter too. I was only about 12 feet out for the guy lines. Just trying to sit in the hammock, and bear in mind I don't have much balance now, so I lurched into the hammock and the sudden shock loading of my weight had one ground anchor pinging out of the ground like it had come out of a catapult and I ended up in a crumpled heap with a pile of fabric over the top of me! At least the ground anchor didn't hit me. I shall double the guy line length, which will halve the angle and hopefully give more holding power. However, I have also decided even if it does hold I can't use a hammock 12" off the ground, so stronger, taller poles it is going to have to be. 40mm, 35mm and 30mm at 600mm each next try.
 
King Rat said:
The rain cleared and I had another go with the shortened tarp poles, just using 2 sections to make the pole suspension 1.2m, the same as the commercial Trekking Treez, which support hammocks using just the hiking sticks and guyed like I am trying to do. I didn't even get to sit before the guys pulled out, the turf is very dry mind and I didn't get the anchors fully in, but longer guy lines will be btter too. I was only about 12 feet out for the guy lines. Just trying to sit in the hammock, and bear in mind I don't have much balance now, so I lurched into the hammock and the sudden shock loading of my weight had one ground anchor pinging out of the ground like it had come out of a catapult and I ended up in a crumpled heap with a pile of fabric over the top of me! At least the ground anchor didn't hit me. I shall double the guy line length, which will halve the angle and hopefully give more holding power. However, I have also decided even if it does hold I can't use a hammock 12" off the ground, so stronger, taller poles it is going to have to be. 40mm, 35mm and 30mm at 600mm each next try.
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C.C. Chimp reviving his tarp epic had me looking for progress on the two pole, antigravity hammock system.
I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that it appears to have been swept under the bumpy carpet.

Has defeat been accepted?
 
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