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Anchoring 

The foot end anchor must bear at least half of your body weight. Suitable anchors include 
the bases of well-rooted shrubs, vehicles, large rocks or chinks in rock features, the hinge 
pins of doors, handrails or other architectural features, shoes closed behind strong closet 
or built-in cabinet doors, the frame of a bed atop which the stand is erected, etc. A truly 
portable anchor for places with zero other opportunities is one or more collapsible water 
vessels placed directly under the foot apex.  

Use ground anchors when there are no suitable alternatives on site. Select the anchor for 
the critical foot end based on the ground conditions, using the other for the less critical 
head end. Anchors hold best placed as far away from the stand as the guylines allow, soil 
conditions permitting.  

Screw anchors are usually the best choice for soft to 
medium-hard ground. If you hit an obstacle, you 
can sometimes use the Tensa Boomstake to make a 
pilot hole for the screw to enter more easily. 

Tensa Boomstakes are best for ground too hard for 
screw anchors, able to be pounded through softer 
rock. In softer ground where the stake alone might 
pull out, add the boom to make the stake act more 

Head or feet touch poles

• Widen baseline. 
• Shorten hammock suspension 

overall, or lengthen on contact end, 
shorten on non-contact end . 

• If head touches, reduce stand tilt. 
• If feet touch, increase stand tilt. 
• Verify that stand feet are level. 
• Cross poles so those nearest head 

and feet are outboard.

Stand tips toward foot end

• Increase stand tilt to shi

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t body 

weight further toward head end. 

• Shorten head end guyline enough to 

prevent tip, but 

not

 make taut when 

hammock empty.

Remedies

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