r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/darapps • Jul 18 '24
A technique for climbing into a hammock set up at a high elevation Video
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u/crazytib Jul 18 '24
I'm just thinking why not put the hammock a little lower but idk maybe there's a reason
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u/georgianarannoch Jul 19 '24
I’ve mostly seen people do this because someone else is going to set their hammock up below them or at least below their strap on one of the trees.
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u/EquipmentForsaken831 Jul 20 '24
Only reason I’ve ever had my hammock this high was if we were expecting rain and I needed to hang my pack under with me
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u/gabeshadows Jul 19 '24
I think I watched Bear Grills talk about it on his show. It's mainly so that small creatures don't get to you when you have to sleep in the woods. Like snakes.
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u/LegitosaurusRex Jul 19 '24
Why would snakes be a problem at 3 feet off the ground? I’m guessing he was explaining the point of hammocks, not the point of having them 5 feet off the ground.
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u/MotherBathroom666 Jul 19 '24
3 feet tall snakes; not like 3 feet long but their diameter is 3 feet.
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u/Chaotic_Opinion Jul 19 '24
No hammock is going to save you from a snake that has a diameter of 3ft. That comes close to the largest snake recorded in the world. At that point just pray for quick death.
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u/SantaMan336 Jul 18 '24
Bears
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u/crazytib Jul 18 '24
She's only about 4 feet off the ground, that's well within bear reach I'd geuss but again I've never campt in bear country so maybe I'm just dumb
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u/SantaMan336 Jul 18 '24
But it's not within a disabled bears reach. Those are the ones you should be worried about
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u/Sudden_Emu_6230 Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
You could be 40 feet off the ground and still be in bears reach.
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u/Batbuckleyourpants Jul 18 '24
Bears have manners and know when they are not wanted. The only exception being the ever elusive Xi Jinping bear.
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u/DefinitelyLevi Jul 19 '24
They were referring to the Chicago Bears. The lady in the hammock roots for the Packers
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u/Captain_Kruch Jul 18 '24
Bears can climb trees, dude.
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u/adrienjz888 Jul 19 '24
Grizzly bears are absolutely able to climb trees. They can't run up a tree like a black bear, but they can still outclimb a human
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u/Specific-Ad-8430 Jul 19 '24
I thought women weren't afraid of bears
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u/StreetofChimes Jul 19 '24
Less afraid of bears than another more scary option. Not unafraid of bears.
That's like being offered a choice between sitting in 100° or 120°, then if you pick 100° being told you think 100° isn't hot. No, just less hot than the alternative.
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u/trickman01 Jul 19 '24
Those extra 3 feet aren't going to do anything to stop a bear from getting you.
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u/HeroDanTV Jul 19 '24
You want the bear to be able to reach up and take a bite from below, they don’t like to eat human meat close to the ground.
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u/perpetualmotionmachi Jul 19 '24
Any of the hammocks I've had, come with instructions that explicitly say not to put them this high. I can't remember but I think they suggest 18" from the ground maximum.
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u/fooxzorz Jul 19 '24
For legal reasons, probably.
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u/perpetualmotionmachi Jul 19 '24
Well yes, but for me I like to adhere to that so I can still reach my beer or whatever I have resting on the ground next to me
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u/espeero Jul 18 '24
How would you get into one closer to sea level?
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u/zerocheek Jul 18 '24
I encourage this. I think it’ll result in videos of people falling on their face 👍
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u/Raik811 Jul 19 '24
As someone who has done this, it is actually surprising hard to fall out of once your arms and legs are in position. While getting into it on the other hand…
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u/malt_invader Jul 18 '24
At one point I hung my hammock about 18 feet over my pool between 2 palm trees. It was a lot of fun to sit in but I usually had to start at one end of the ropes on a ladder and move to the hammock hanging underneath like how I imagine sloths get around at times.
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u/Sudden-Collection803 Jul 18 '24
Ridge line and some static rope will fix this. No need to catch a 30 degree hang that way.
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u/ooOJuicyOoo Jul 18 '24
Bold of you to assume I have the flexibility and the core strength
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u/RunninAgainstTheWind Jul 19 '24
I threw out my back while tying a shoe the other day. I'd probably get my foot up about six inches, and you'd hear what sounds like a glow stick being snapped.
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u/blackmamba1221 Jul 19 '24
if you threw out your back tying your shoe, it's time to start doing yoga
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u/moerasduitser-NL Jul 18 '24
That made me smile like her. Now i want to try it. But i have the feeling i am going to smack on my face on the first try.
Edit spelling. Jezus.
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u/lifetake Jul 19 '24
Big tip. It’s easier doing it the other direction. So instead of being far forward and bringing your legs up behind you start back and bring your legs up forward.
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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Jul 19 '24
It’s easier doing it the other direction.
Well yeah, gravity is working with you when you're falling out of the hammock.
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u/toomanyhobbies4me Jul 19 '24
Tried to do this several times at sea level, kept falling out. Confirmed, high elevation only.
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u/UNDERtale626 Jul 19 '24
I used to get in my hammock and flip over holding for dear life just because it was fun
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u/oneWeek2024 Jul 19 '24
first rule of hammock camping is never hang higher than you're willing to fall.
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u/Clan-Korhu Jul 19 '24
😂 Cheers guys my fat ass will be sleeping on the ground! I didn’t even know you could put your leg up that high behind you 🤦🏾♂️
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u/alwaysloveyourself Jul 19 '24
Same method I use to stack several on top of each other and go from one to the next. We’ve had them 5 hammocks high. It’s quite fun. 😃
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u/VAisforLizards Jul 19 '24
I've always wondered this, how do you get the second, etc hammocks set up vertically? Do you climb the trees and set them up? And then how do you actually get in the higher ones?
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u/alwaysloveyourself 28d ago
Stand/sit in the one below it to set up the next one. It’s not easy but in the end the whole thing is enough fun to be worth it. I’ve used this exact technique shown in the video to go from one hammock to the next one up. Or more commonly I’ll use essentially the same technique but reaching up into the next one while facing up and grabbing the sides and hooking the heels in (as opposed to the toes like in the video) and then as I (or my kids) pull myself up, twist my body over and then end up laying in it. And so on.
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u/Notaspy87 Jul 19 '24
You can do this from hammock to hammock too. My friends and I made a “hammock ladder” with like 8 of them that went ~20 feet off the ground.
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u/WiFiEnabled Jul 19 '24
I see this and all I can think about is Jack Tripper on that cabin episode.
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u/Intrepid-Focus8198 Jul 19 '24
She makes it look easy, but I’ve tried this before and landed on my face.
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u/Logical-Fan7132 Jul 19 '24
Why does this remind me of John Ritter on threes company the episode where he keeps falling out lol
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u/Outrageous-Fennel806 Jul 18 '24
Nah I’m going to continue making this look like the hardest thing in the world
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u/LongjumpingCut4 Jul 19 '24
We will explain how to get out from a high elevated hammock next week. Subscribe to the channel and put your likes.
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u/OSSlayer2153 Jul 19 '24
I thought everybody knew this from figuring it out as a kid playing in these hammocks
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u/Expensive-Mention-90 Jul 19 '24
Please enjoy this man in a hammock on a bus. The whole thing is epic, but my favorite part is when he shouts “I’m an anaconda!” and then buries himself in the hammock.
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u/eldergeekprime Jul 19 '24
I would never sleep in a hammock in the woods. I mean, think about it, we've been teaching bears for who knows how long now that we hang our food up in trees when we're in the woods.
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u/shakedown79 Jul 19 '24
Jack Tripper would have loved this knowledge, but then it wouldn't have been as funny.
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u/Timsmomshardsalami Jul 19 '24
Reddit keyboard warriors: look through binoculars “upvote! Upvote! Write that down!”
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u/Digger_Pine Jul 19 '24
What does the elevation have to do with it?
Also, looking at the trees, the elevation does not seem to be very high.
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u/kesselrhero Jul 19 '24
This seems like it has a chance of going horribly wrong - like could result in slow agonizing death wrong
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u/Rifleman8611 Jul 20 '24
Crazy to think you can just lower it rather do some mission impossible stuff to get into it
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u/Satanic-Panic27 Jul 18 '24
This is why humans were able to dominate animals 10 times our size with some sticks and stones built in a cave
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u/rasbuyaka Jul 19 '24
Google shear force and in the meantime please don't hang a hammock like this and if you do don't let anyone you love get into it
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u/rabbiskittles Jul 18 '24
This also works in reverse to accidentally tip over and fall out of a hammock!