Thanks to Evans at NIMBY the crow’s nest is looking good!

The bottom is now reinforced

The entrance has been installed

Some extra safety was added and reinforced

And finally the flag pole holder has been installed

It is amazing how much rope it takes to build the Hammock Hangout. The scale makes even the little things add up. For example, hanging the hammocks. Each end of a hammock takes a rope through the end and that then goes around a pole. It takes about 15 feet of rope for each end of a hammock or 30 feet of rope per hammock. There are 90 hammocks, so 30′ x 90 = 2700′ of rope. In other words it takes half a mile of rope just to attach the hammocks to the poles!

There is also:

• 1200′ of rope and/or steel cable holding up the center pole
• 4200′ of rope holding up the grid of 36 12′ logs
• 10,000′ of parachute line holding the edge of the parachutes

The design of the hammock is simple. You start with a ten foot piece of relatively strong fabric that is somewhat tare resistant.

Then you reinforcing the long edges on both sides of the hammock by folding it over and preferable sewing some parachute line into the edge to keep it from ripping.

I put some extra reinforcement on the ends for the loop and Now fold both ends.

and make very sturdy attachment on the edges.

When I started things were rough, but practice makes perfect.