Is it just me?? DD Hammock stand.....

[C_Claycomb]

I made a tensa type stand from Screwfix steel cable conduit pipes. Was a bit of a fuss drilling holes to line up through two sizes of pipe to make them telescopic. End result works, but requires a fairly strong ground anchor, one of those Delta Ground Anchor pegs works. Of course, those pipes are darned heavy, and at about 4 feet long, not really packable.

The point of that Handy Hammock stand, and the commercial Tensa is that they are light enough to bike pack or back pack.

 

[hopper333]

Yes I'm looking for something light enough to backpack with. I can sort out good guying (build my own from dyneema) and ground anchors (perhaps these? https://bestoutdoor.co.uk/shop/ols/products/titan-ground-anchor-set-of-6-medium-with-nylon-bag-27g) myself.

I have thought about buying some carbon fibre tube and epoxy glueing inner ferrules of a smaller diameter CF. This would be like a fishing rod construction and, with the correct diameters and wall thicknesses, very strong. The question is how light could it be made? The comparison would be with the Tensa Solo I think, which is 850g per pole and I'm sure that could be beaten quite easily but an advantage of theirs is that they telescope for more compact packing. I suppose a telescopic construction is also possible by having multiple pole diameters that are a snug fit inside each other? Then a mechanism for locking it into the open position would be necessary (or at least useful).