Description
See the Tensa4 Freestanding user guide and setup video:
Dream hammocks hang with more sag than most: their structural ridgelines run shorter than the typical 83% of body length. Freestanding Mod can’t gain the height to compensate without narrowing its base until the poles crowd or hover over your head and feet. Other wide hammocks with short ridgelines can hit the same limit.
The purple hammock in the setup video measures 12′ and has no ridgeline, so it can use the full 124″ ridgepole. It fits a 5′10″ person, but a 6′4″ person might have pole clearance issues in it. Most people and 11′ hammocks are unaffected. If you’re over 6′ with an especially wide hammock (over 64″), you may be affected.
We kept Freestanding Mod’s sit height low on purpose: low is safer over hard floors, and indoors is where Freestanding Mod fits best. For the widest range of hammock types, lengths and tarps, use Tensa4 in standard guyed mode. It’s simpler to set up and works indoors or out wherever you can secure the foot end to an immovable object or a ground anchor.
Freestanding Mod works only with gathered-end hammocks, not bridge or transverse hammocks. Standard Tensa4 works with all three, and with the Haven Tent.
Stephanie Parsons (verified owner) –
This mod is amazing! I am so glad I got it. I have been using my Tensa4 in my driveway and garage everyday since it arrived. It allows for endless possibilities on where I can hang. If you have a Tensa4, I highly recommend this addition!
Mark Pavlichenko (verified owner) –
I use this configuration of the Tensa 04 almost daily with my Warbonnet Blackbird XLC. I hang my hammock off of the toggle loops and get a very nice hang that way.
In terms of ease of setup and convenience, this is the best configuration for the Tensa 4. All this mod does is add a new telescoping pole that runs from the head end to the foot end of the hammock, as well as another pole that supports your weight on the head end. There’s no guesswork in involved with how you need to angle the head and foot ends of the stand, and the structure is very stable once you get the head support pole set up.
Setting this up and taking this down takes me literally 1 minute to do. I just disconnect the ridgeline pole in the middle and bring all poles together in a bundle that I can lean against a wall in my closet. Setting the stand up is extremely easy, just connect the ridgeline pole and make sure the head support pole is straight and can bear weight. Very easy and quick to use once you figure out how to construct the stand.
But yes, would highly recommend. I’ve used this stand on my wooden deck, on carpet, and on linoleum floors. I have had success hanging for a long time on all those flooring surfaces. The head support pole can also be braced slightly at the base if you desire. This is my favorite way to use this stand, and it makes indoor setup and deck setup both possible and very convenient. My deck is 9 feet X 8 feet, and I have more than enough room for this stand