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Tensa Outdoor Tensa4 User Manual

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Tensa4 Hammock Stand
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Tensa4 Hammock Stand User Guide Setting up ....................Adjustment ....................Anchoring ....................Pitching a tarp ................... Tips and tricks ................... Don'ts ......................
  • Page 2 Tensa4 is a highly portable hammock stand, suitable for outdoors or inside, on flat or sloping ground, either for recreation or full-time use as a bed. It accommodates gathered-end hammocks up t0 12 feet long, with a ~30° sag and the foot end higher than the head, for laying flat on the diagonal.

  • Page 3: Setting Up

    Setting up Check to assure your stand is complete, identifying the following: Four 4-segment tubing sections, and four Four ball-loop connectors 3-segment sections Four lines, webbing or Amsteel: orange baseline, Two ground anchors, either Orange Screws, black ridgeline, and 2 black & orange guylines Tensa Boomstakes, or a combination 2.
  • Page 4 3. Arrange the four poles in a figure-8, laying the orange baseline between one pair of corners (the feet), and the black ridgeline between the other (the apexes). 4. Join the poles and lines at the corners as shown, always inspecting loops for excessive (>10%) wear: Thread ball loop through one pole …then through the other...
  • Page 5 5. Put the stand’s feet near their final place, spreading the baseline by your body length or a little more, laying the apexes together in a V shape. If on a slope, assure that the feet are level. A good place provides for a foot-end anchor a body length or more away in the direction the V points.
  • Page 6 9. Attach and anchor the head end guyline. Its main purpose is to prevent the stand collapsing toward the foot side. Do not tighten it, now or ever. Leave it slack so the head end apex is free to move at least several inches. This allows both manual and dynamic adjustments, and avoids overloading the poles.

  • Page 7: Adjustment

    Detail of the finished state of the foot-end apex with webbing option, after the stand’s ridgeline removed because hammock has its own. Adjustment “There’s gonna be a little bit of tweaking, but once it’s set, it’s set.” — Sean “Shug” Emery Test and adjust the hang.

  • Page 8: Anchoring

    Problem Remedies Ridgeline sags when reclining • Lengthen hammock suspension. • Increase stand tilt. • If hammock has integral ridgeline (cord between gathered ends), remove stand ridgeline. • If hammock has no ridgeline, shorten stand ridgeline. Head or feet touch poles •...

  • Page 9: Pitching A Tarp

    Longer tarps call for creativity or the Tarp Extensions for Tensa4 accessory (sold separately) which also increases headroom. Do not tension a tarp by tightening the head end guyline.
  • Page 10 Tensa Solo is a hammock stand product sold separately, that uses many of the same components as Tensa4. Its main advantage is lower weight, pack size, and cost, at the expense of some reliability since it requires more and stronger ground anchors than...

  • Page 11: Don'ts

    Tensa4. You can convert one Tensa4 economically into four Tensa Solos using Tensa4 to Tensa Solo Conversion Kits, sold separately, to accommodate larger groups. Joining multiple Tensa4 stands Two stands can share a common foot-end pole (seven poles altogether) and anchor. Add more, up to six hammock berths around a single central anchor using only 4.5 complete...
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