Re: [at-l] how to hang a hammock

[Pat Villeneuve <pvillen@imap1.asu.edu>]

Okay, what if I hung both ends from a rafter or joist or whatever you call
those beams?...

Chocolate

kahley7 wrote:

> Gimme, I think you may have a problem...
> The deal, I think, with hammocks is that you have to hang them fairly
> level?  Trying to picture how you would hang one end from a wall
> and the other from the ceiling and heir is no way I can come up
> with anything approaching comfort.  More ike a swing than a bed
> IYKWIM.
> Even if you use a long line from the ceiling, without some way
> of providing lateral stretch on that end, even your minimal
> weight will form a ball in the bottom.  Off course I may be
> way off but I have never worked as a physicist or a hammock hanger. <g>

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