bedroom hammock

[richardww]

Hi as above, am needing to swap my bed for a hammock,
my problem is the morta in the brick work in my house is totaly cr**, Am worryed about pulling the bricks out the wall,
Has any one had this problem before? any idears
The best i can think off, is too somethink like a lenght of say angle iron too the wall so the am drilling-fixing into many bricks, to spead the weight,
Any better idears that wount drive the wife nuts.
Thanks
Richard

 

[tom.moran]

like you say, many anchor points is the way forward. and use wall grabber bolts

 

[mousey]

Why not make/ buy a hammock frame?

 

[Headshed]

Why not make/ buy a hammock frame?

Plus 1 to that, check out Hammock Forums and have a look at the 'Turtle Dog stand' or similar.

 

[richardww]

mousey
any info on the frames please,
the ones on hammock forums .net are really big
Thanks

 

[richardww]

Headshed
will do, am looking know
Damm good stands, but problem is my bedrooms to small for the back pole,

 

[nitrambur]

this one's not overly big
[video=youtube;yU-0GQKpd_M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU-0GQKpd_M[/video]


ahh cross-posted, you've already rejected that design

 

[richardww]

nitrambur
Thats a really good vid, i did consider making it for my garden, but in the end i have just got some wooden post concreted in.
But many thanks.

 

[Headshed]

Headshed
will do, am looking know
Damm good stands, but problem is my bedrooms to small for the back pole,

Alternatively look at attaching fixings into the roof joists across the rooms corners. But check out hammcok forums for the 'Hammock Calculator' which is a sobering insight into the forces generated by hammock suspension.

 

[richardww]

am i being over carefull by thinking off fixing a metal bar, When wood will do, ?

 

[Teepee]

I use 2 wooden uprights screwed to the wall with a top wooden bar (at least above head height) that runs between the 2 uprights. The top bar takes all the strain off the walls and takes up a tiny volume in the room, nothing to trip over. Handy to throw the hammock over to keep it out the way in the day too.The screws in the wall just stop the stand falling over, so minimal force. If you put the uprights in the corners, you don't even need to screw it to the wall as it's going nowhere.
The bottoms of the uprights are screwed to the floorboards with L brackets and they wont ever budge-this transfers the rest of the strain to the floor. Eye bolts through the wood and steel maillons to clip the hammock to the eye bolts.

My wooden uprights are double 6x1" (150x25mm) timber, placed egde to the wall, with pieces of 6x1 as shelves installed.

If you paint the top bar to match the ceiling, it hides well.

 

[richardww]

Headshed
i think that my be the way forward, with the "Hammock Calculater" is it whats in the The Ultimate Hang:? The figures are sobering,

 

[Quixoticgeek]

What teepee said, tho I would add.

I use a hammock occasionally strung off the frame of my four poster bed. The uprights of which are 70mm x 70mm, and the cross beams at the top are 44mmx92mm. This is more than enough strength for a hammock.

If you were to use Oak rather than the pine that I have, you may find you can shave a bit off the thicknesses here.

Oh, and I use petzl caving anchors much like these.

J

 

[tartanferret]

I use these type of things..


With four long rawlbolts in each. They aint going anywhere !

Do you have room to hang diagonally? Might help ?

 

[richardww]

Many THANKS for all your help
it would be a problem to hang diagonally, would be into the door way,

 

[richardww]

looking at the hammock stand thats been shown.
would it be ok in the loft to use a bar, that runs across the beams, ( so it speads the wieght) and have two lenghts of amsteel atachcted too a bar,
the same as the stand but useing the celing beams, instead of the stand?

 

[Teepee]

looking at the hammock stand thats been shown.
would it be ok in the loft to use a bar, that runs across the beams, ( so it speads the wieght) and have two lenghts of amsteel atachcted too a bar,
the same as the stand but useing the celing beams, instead of the stand?

That would be fine with a big beam but the attachment points will likely be too high unless your room is really big. (20ft+) My 3.5m span has the attachments at elbow height.

 

[Headshed]

Headshed
i think that my be the way forward, with the "Hammock Calculater" is it whats in the The Ultimate Hang:? The figures are sobering,[/QUO
Yes that's the one, Teepee's idea, is very sound, it's like the turtle dog stand but without the tripod. The jist of it is that you need the horizontal beam to remove the reaction force at the wall (combined bending moment and tensile load). Remember the taughter ie flatter the supports the higher the loads.

 

[swotty]

If rawl bolts are likely to pull out have you considered chemical fixings?

 

[Macaroon]

Never heard of that, swotty; how does that work?