A word of caution: I was doing something similar to what aardwolfe is describing above with my Hennessy Hammock. One night, the ridgeline snapped with me in the hammock. It snapped exactly at the point I had tied a figure eight loop for the purpose of tightening (as described above)...
You tied a figure eight knot on the ridgeline ?? Do you mean the thin line INSIDE the hammock ??
I did once break that ridgeline by grabing that line and pulling myself up, to the "head" of the hammock. This line is not designed to do that !
Like Aardwolf, I recently made a figure eight, on one of the big external rope, going from hammock to the tree. And it is really easier to correctly tension the rope.
I sent a mail to HH, asking if there were any risk doing that. Unfortunately, I never got an answer. Should try once more.
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