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Is it possible to put up a hammock that can sustain two people (300-350lbs) in your house? How would you do it

March 10th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

  1. mike1942f
    March 10th, 2010 at 01:16 | #1
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    Most of these come with a heavy awkward frame that sits on the floor and is wide enough to keep from tipping. If you want to fasten it to the house, you are going to have to check out the walls, because you want to go into solid wood, which may mean corners and door frame areas rather than the middle of walls. If there were no other choice, I would locate 3-4 studs and lag screw a 2×4 to the wall into all the studs (leaving a small hole when the board is taken down) and bolt an eye through the board to hook the hammock to. Besides the shear weight load, when the hammock is stretched and you put that much weight on it, the tension horizontally is 2-3 times as high.

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