caldera wrote:
wow ~



can u post some pictures of your tree-top accomodation, I would love to sleep in the canopy of a rainforest !

Check out the photos of the treeboat on the New Tribe web site:
Basic tree boat setup

Most tree climbers who sleep up in trees are using an NT Treeboat or some variety of a portaledge (originally designed for big wall climbers on overnight pitches). Either works well, the portaledge is more expensive and weighs more but only requires a single attachment point.
-moss

Any one have plans for homemade rainfly for longboat.

rocknroll wrote:
Any one have plans for homemade rainfly for longboat.

I would like to make a lightweight fly for backpacking. The one that New Tribe makes is excellent but I'd like to go with a ripstop version.

I think you have to go ahead and make your own design, do you know any one who's good at pattern making?
-moss

lizardman wrote:
anyone got any tips/advice on setting up a tree boat on just one limb I have done it before and found it almost impossible to get it nice and flat and comfortable maybe it just aint possible

I found the solution for hanging a tree boat under a limb, don't do it! Just kidding, on a recent white pine climb I did my first conifer treeboat settings. The solution for this particular tree was to find a limb that curved downward, anchor the foot of the boat there and then anchor the head of the boat on a second limb close to where it joins the trunk.

Theoretically if the limb is long and strong enough with a downward curve you could anchor the foot out on the limb and the head at the trunk below where the limb joins the trunk.

The head end of the boat, the anchor limb is to the left just outside the photo


The foot end, the branch was not long enough to go straight back to the trunk so the boat direction is offset to the side of the trunk


The useful thing about the downward curved limb besides that it gives you room under the branch for the hammock is that you can adjust the height of the foot of the hammock there to make it level with the other anchor branch where it meets the tree.

Tree camping photo series
-moss

Good advise Moss. I think that(WEW) Whatever Works as explained by Jungle Joe applies here. The Camper needs to try to figure the specific situation and cope with the situation. Trees are not made to order as you may have learned from camping in many conditions so you develop your own ways of doing it.
Nice teaching photos.
thanks