Making Big Whoopie Slings for Heavier Hammock Hangers 

That is great Perry. Start of real easy and take things slow, I do. I don't do everything perfect either, even though I would like to. If you need anything let me know.

I bet it would make awesome winch lines. I may make up a set for snomachines next winter now.

That’s a great point. After you’ve done the bury and before you milk it back inside, you should taper by cutting a set of 2 adjacent threads as close as possible to where it comes out, then skip 2 rows, cut 2 more, skip 2 rows and cut 2 more. That will give you 6 out out of the 12 tapered nicely then I just cut the bottom 6 at an angle to smooth that out more before milking it back inside. As you mentioned, it is in fact structural as in break tests it will frequently pop at that ridge if not tapered correctly. Also I usually bury at LEAST 2 fid lengths (a fid is usually 30x the diameter of the line) which with 1/8” would be about 7 1/2”.

Thanks. Will check out your channel as well. Really need to get over to that side of the country.

I agree Lee. I am not that precise. Heck that just may be the difference between taking a Snickers to a Clif bar for my mid day hiking snack.

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Awesome. I find it super fun and addicting. Your daughter will love it too. I get some of my Amsteel from go2marine.com which is right over in Poulsbo.

That's good to know, I'll check them out with future projects.

Very good idea Ryan. I have been slowly going through the wires I have, but it makes perfect sense to have it longer. Then I might stop losing them too. I think there are about nine under my couch. Moroccan blue sounds awesome for a hammock. I was thinking of a hex tarp in that color. Will end up an awesome hammock for sure and you will soon be building them for all your friends I would think. I am sitting here right now with a bunch of 1/8 and just strung up my very first hammock I made out in the lab, thinking about doing a 1/8 fixed ridgeline for it, putting on the 1/8 whoopies I made and doing carabiners for all the connections. I think it would be pretty industructable and almost no wear points. That is what I used my REI 20% off on....6 carabiners. Kept me from spending too much money on a tent or something. Time to revive the RU-vid channel. Are you a musician?

Great idea on the REI carabiners purchase. I grabbed a second head lamp. As far as my channel goes, this is my personal account that I use for website administration. I design and build websites so I need to access webmaster tools. I wanted my comments to be my actual name so I used this account. The music videos are just shows I attended. I'm not a musician, but I am a fan of live music. I can't really focus on a quality youtube channel. You have to have passion to do it right, which you clearly do. Thank you. I appreciate your time!

Thanks Steven. My latest tactic for my own gear is to have the whoopie and an adjustable ridgeline (big whoopie), I find the UCR slips sometimes. Then when I am happy that I have the hammock set right will make a 7/64th amsteel fixed ridgeline. But if I am making a hammock that will be used by different people I will keep the adjustable on it. The UCR makes a lot of sense for weight, but the slipping is too often for me.

Nature Calls Backpacking Thank you Bruce for the clear explaination👍

I haven't experienced that lately. When I first started making stuff like this I had that issue when I didn't have enough buried. If you can put even more in the bury the better it gets. I will go pretty far really. I could see like a 15 inch bury with the 1/8th. Zing-it size is really a lot harder to get a long bury and I have had to walk away at times when I work with it and do deep breathing exercises. Give that a try and let me know. I will also massage it, or any of the sizes with my hands in the beginning to get the grip started. It is pretty slick in the beginning. Let me know

Nature Calls Backpacking That makes perfect sense (longer bury and handling the cordage to tone down the slickness). I'll let you know how it performs. Much appreciated.

I agree and have had not issues as yet pushing all my 7/64th Amsteel way beyond spec. Unfortunately I have viewers of these videos that will go to their grave reciting certain books and people, and if the calculator says it is too much they let me know in a lot of ways. I was curious anyway, and the weight difference to me is nominal, so why not. I love experimenting. I do have some viewers that would push the tensile and margin if they go too far with the 7/64th though and I would rather show them possibilities so they won't have that issue to worry about. But yes, 7/64 is super strong and light and perfect for most applications.

I like the feeling of the larger rope in my hands. My backpacking rig uses 200 lb. Spectra kite line for tarp guylines that make Zing-it look like mooring lines. But if I'm not carrying everything on my back I like to have a larger rope. I can carry much more gear on my bike and trailer so I use 2 mm guylines with a few 7/64th utilitiy lines and even 30' of 1/4" Spectra work rope.

I made mine on spreadshirt.com Real easy.

I was just telling that to my daughter. Why the US still or ever didn't embrace metric to begin with. The best part is she is in the Navy who use knots for everything, and her brothers are Marines that use metric.

You can’t make paracord into a whoopie: you need to have a hollow briaded rope to be able to splice it. But you could use 550 cord and tie a Farimond hitch (but you’d need to make extra wraps to hold an adult’s weight!). Not sure if paracord starts to slip when wet, either, so test it out before you risk your hips and spine to it!!!