How do I hang a hammock in the back garden?

[Toddy]

I'm really unhappy in this sticky heat
I know, I know, Summer's beautiful and all I seem to do is moan about midgies and heat

But I can't sleep, it's just so warm in the house.

What's the best way to hang a hammock in the garden ?
I'd need some kind of frame 'cos the trees along outside the fence would only give one end to tie to.

Would I be better just buying one of those garden hammock frame sets instead ?
and then finding some way to hang a midgie net over the whole thing ?

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Shewie]

If you've got a right angle where two walls meet you could use a couple of hasps (u-bolts) and then swing from that.

I have a couple in my cellar which I use for messing about with setups etc.

Galvanised ones from B&Q are only a couple of pounds each.

EDIT:

Sorry Mary it's actually the staple you need, like this one ...

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...le+hardware&ndsp=18&hl=en&sa=N&start=108&um=1

 

[Ogri the trog]

Possible Toddy,
though you need to be sure of your ground anchor....

http://www.imrisk.com/hammock/singlepolehammock.htm

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[tobes01]

I backed my Land Rover up to the front porch, put a choc under the back wheel and tied between the two. Lovely.

Tobes

 

[wanderingblade]

Whats the problem - you can hang a hammock anywhere!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5zzp5kNEYk

 

[gregorach]

Let's see you hang a hammock in the middle of Rannoch Moor then!

 

[w00dsmoke]

Mary, give sentinal fencing a ring and get some 11ft deer strainer posts delivered (£10 delivery), post around £14 each and then dig your hole a min of 3-4ft deep and concrete in...I did these years ago and they are great. A few pals have copied it too...

 

[EdS]

make son No1 & 2 earn their keep by holding the end.

 

[British Red]

Sling your hammock in my garden rather than yours?

Might be a bit of a schlep home if you forget your toothbrush mind you

 

[Shewie]

Whats the problem - you can hang a hammock anywhere!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5zzp5kNEYk

I can feel a new thread coming on

 

[Toddy]

Nice ideas folks Might have a play with some of those.

Like it Woodsmoke, like it I could even disguise those as clothes poles :thinkerg:
I know the cast iron ones I have won't do. Whoever set them in gave them all of four inches of concrete A pergola is tempting too ......

Wish it would just thunder and break this appalling hot, sticky, still air.

atb,
M

 

[verloc]

what about something like this?

 

[Toddy]

Sounds ideal, but it's $140 before p&p

Argos are selling a garden hammock reduced to £40 but it's the old, "How often would I use it ? How and where could I store it ?" problem
So tempting though.

That one you linked to looks as though it would come down easily for car camping too

cheers,
M

 

[mjk123]

If you've got two vertical poles then the force you need to brace is the one which will try to pull the poles together. A ridge pole can help with this. Or you can make two tall tripods and brace them with a ridge pole. The ridge pole needs to be straight and long (4m) but not really that strong since wood is strong in compression. You also need to mallet in the tripod feet a bit so they don't slip.

 

[verloc]

I meant make one not buy one - in fact im sure theres plans on the web somewhere to make one (not as pretty mind) with a couple of legths of cheap timber and some nails / screws - probs only a couple of hours work if that - i cant find a link to what i mean at the moment so hopefully someone else as seen it and still has the link

 

[Lurch]

Mary, give sentinal fencing a ring and get some 11ft deer strainer posts delivered (£10 delivery), post around £14 each and then dig your hole a min of 3-4ft deep and concrete in.

Effective, but perhaps a little excessive!
I've got mine hanging off an eyebolt in the garage wall and the other end to an ordinary 6' post just knocked 2' into the ground. Bobajob and no buggering about mixing concrete!

 

[Pandabean]

Dont use the fixed washing line poles , They are nicely spaced, but you could be on the ground pretty soon. I kind of bent one of them in our back garden, its not that bad, the girlfirend didn't notice until i mistakenly pointed it out.

I know how you feel, its been horrible trying to sleep the past few nights due to the heat, even with the windows open.

Andy

 

[verloc]

ooooh i remembered this morning whilst having a shave - don't know how it popped in them but it did , its on the imrisk page

Picture linked to below is of Risks stand,

looks pretty good i thought,

 

[w00dsmoke]

Effective, but perhaps a little excessive!
I've got mine hanging off an eyebolt in the garage wall and the other end to an ordinary 6' post just knocked 2' into the ground. Bobajob and no buggering about mixing concrete!

I'd like to think aesthetically pleasing and strong enough to take three hammocks at once hence the three posts, so not excessive at all, pefect for me as I've no strong walls or tree's and at 18 stone they need to be big As for mixing concrete, I used post mix, pour in the hole and add water, jobdone, no mixing at all

 

[bikething]

I made up something like that - with a bit of 2x2 as a top brace.

The only change I made was to replace that central bottom spacer-bar with 2 - one at the end of each cross piece - 'cos I didn't fancy landing on that if my knots gave way