I'm going hammock camping for the first time EVER this weekend. Taking it really easy, just doing to a state park campground. I've already learned so much in preparation from watching your videos! Thank you!

I just love your videos and the knowledge you share 😊

I've got stingers and Wasps. i like them both. But the thing I believe the Wasp has over the Stinger is that with the Stinger the line has to come all the way back to the tarp, which means you use twice as much line, or you gat half as much distance. The Wasp allows you to locate it way back near the tree, so you can use more of your line if you need it.

Learning the one handed trucker’s hitch was lifechanging for me, as a hammocker. Pull a loop from the working end (not tied yet) and you have a trucker’s for tension. Pull a loop from the other side and you get a marlin spike hitch useful for holding tension or putting a stick through it and pulling the rope without hurting your hands. The Siberian hitch is also easy to tie and pretty similar - that’s what I use to tie down the first side of my ridgeline. To adjust the tarp on it, I use prussik knots too, and multiple knots on them. It works like a rope shackle. They stay on the ridgeline. I fold the tarp over the ridgeline and then tie it in a roll with those. For the guylines I use the cheap tensioners built in but instead of putting them at the peg end, I put them on the tarp itself - much easier to tie this way!!! And I just secure the pegs with marlin spike hitches. Secure and all I’ve to do is remove the peg to untie. I used to tie taut lines in all of them - and it was easy to adjust and until, but not slow to tie.

What I did with my sleeping hammock got old single duckdown squilt and a black 220T polyester waterproof cover with silver on reverse doubled it to get 3ft and put the quilt inside then stitch across with machine it makes any cheap sleeping hammock seem as if it cost a fortune but it only cost £30 it's AMAZING and very easy to pack just need to give it good shaking up when you unpack it have a go at making your own

That was really interesting! So far, I just used the short rarp straps that came with the tarp. I tie knots by hand. Maybe the ridge line would keep it from flapping in the wind.

Another informative and entertaining video.

Great tutorial and journey Devil Dog. Semper Fi!

Great tips. Very well explained. I like the stingers with my custom ZingIt ridgeline on the winter tarp. On my smaller tarp I like the convenience of LineLoc3 with a small titanium carabiner.

Excellent Information! Well done. Will do this with my cheapo Polytarp.

I love the stingers. You can take them off your summer tarp and then use them for your winter tarp. I keep my stingers attached to the tarps. Great tips as usual, you're an Angel to the hammock community. Thank you for all you do. Looking awesome as usual Semper Fi.

Brilliant video. Thank you. 😊

I'm very new to hammocking I've learned so much information. Plz keep making ur videos. Can u do a video on taking down and packing ur backpack plz and thank u

Another great video. I’m surprised you put the first tarp over the ridge line instead of under. When putting it over the ridgeline, you get more support for the weight (of the poly tarp or of snow), but then you have to deal with rain running down the line and under the tarp. Of course, cotton drip lines fix that.

I am hoping to finally make it out a couple nights later this week for the first time in a year, after a move up to Michigan. I am not sure I will remember how to use my Dutch bling anymore. Thanks for the refresher course, brother! Stay well up there. S/F

Thanks for posting.

My favorite part of your video other than your info was the feeling that I needed to watch Night At The Roxbury after your video was over.

I also went from the paracord ridgeline to a Dutchware CRL with hook and wasp. It's crazy how much weight that took out of my pack. It also made set up so much simpler since I keep the ridgeline on the tarp and in the snakeskins. I haven't tried a split ridgeline yet. Seems like it would be simpler in some ways, but harder in others, such as needing to adjust it on both sides to center your tarp. Also, you'd lose the added structural strength the CRL provides as opposed to the stress being on the tarp itself. On the other hand, my sons both have line locks on their tarp ridge tie-outs. So I just put some tiny carabiners on the ends of the line. Wrap around the tree, click in, tension with the line locks and they're set up in no time at all. Super easy. Regardless, it's always fun to try out different set ups. Any excuse to spend more time in the woods.

I love my "stingers" I use them for everything. Best all around by Dutch wear, there is imho.

The stone trick is genius!

Always great content... Instead of the stinger I use the wasp but same concept and instead of sinching in down tight one time in the wasp I wrap it twice and not as tight and it comes right out...

The trick with small stones, cordage, and tent stakes, we used to call those bachelor buttons.

Haha Ron, loved the chip cheap chip at 8:01 I'm currently in a break-up and your videos really help me through it

Speaking of snakeskins... I saw video where a guy used a shower scrubber from a dollar store. I've got one for $3 and was looking forward to trying it out. Probably not very durable, but for $1-$3, it might be an interesting cheap alternative.

What type of cord are you using? I need something to set up a tarp in windy conditions. Great video!

With your zingit/lashit lines: did you make the splices to the line yourself, or was it store bought with the eyelets that way? Would be interested on your take on whoopieslings, ucr’s and the splices in zingit/lashit for DIY hammockers.

i don't get it, what's stopping you from stuffing a cuban fiber tarp into a double sides stuff sack (i think those are also called bishop bags)?

Wow you're gonna get wet AF in that hammock when it rains. That tarp is purely decorative.

I really enjoy your videos, I just wish you would ditch the music, especially club

I run a double Ridgeline over my Hammock. I posted a video if you want to check it out. It's not a great video like the marine makes and I don't have a fabulous sidekick like Runner, but it gets the point across. 🤠

Who does the Wasps

A bank line jungle knot ridgeline is far more accessible to people. No need to worry about knots in the wild and it's cheap. Couple of carabiners and the job is done, tarp is going nowhere.

Why no whoopie slings? This all seems so complicated and unnecessarily heavy..

Your fly looks shorter than the hammock.

YOU LOST ME AT TRUCKER’S HITCH. ALSO, MUSIC IS HORRIBLE. I QUIT, AND…