hobson Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 We're currently in Spain enjoying lovely warm weather (and some fantastic off roading) and have a large family size hammock in the vehicle, seeing as we only seem to be able to find one decent tree at a time i was wondering if i could hook the hammock around the roof rack? it's a steel square section rack, same as the Brownchurch ones, which sits in the roof rails, there's not loads of weight in it, but i doubt that'd matter as all the strain would be in one place, i was thinking of using the rear portion as it's a shorter bar. the hammock has 12mm rope with carribiners to make fixing it to anything easier. i weigh about 14 stone and my wife about 9, so 23 total, i have no idea how to work out how much weight that'd work out on the rack but i'd guess half so 11.5 ish... can anyone advise please?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&S Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 I'd just hang it off a corner. Stick the wife in it first and see how it looks in the morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike4444244 Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 My brownchurch rack happily coped with my hammock, roughly the same weight so enjoy! NB i did use a corner as above though... Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_J85JTY Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 If there is a climbing shop about you could always get a continual loop sling, and feed that through a number of different points, spreading the load? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishbosh Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 It will be fine. However, please note that M&S' procedure above is the recommended one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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