But if you want doors and windows or any other irregularities (like greatly varying wall height from section to section), then the simplest method WON'T WORK!

You will get loose se…

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• cut off 2-6m of paracord, overhands on both ends

• start with a constrictor hitch

• repeat:

  • at least two bounce wraps (pull tight)

  • clove hitch (under tension)

  • (with pass wraps over everything in between bounces)

• when string coming to and end either:

  • finish string off with clove and half-hitch back…

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In treenet lingo these first weaves are usually called the skeleton – setting an initial grid in which you can then do the detailed weaving.

First comes

CHOICE OF ROPE

• medium diameter static, between paracord and perimeter

• doubled up paracord

• single paracord

MEDIUM DIAMETER STATIC

Used for larger …

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Take your big rope, put it around the trees or branches.

I like resting it on branches or little bumps in the tree.

I don't like the idea of putting bolts in the tree... I know that supposedly the tree doesn't mind... But I don't like it.

If there TRULY are no branches and bumps, you can temporarily hold it in place with paracord. Once you…

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Thank you. Next question?

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Why?

If you set two perimeters – one for the floor, one for the wall – and then decide that, actually, I want a giant window there, a crazy doorway there, then the wall perimeter won't get correct tension, will shift and move and rub on the trees.

That's bad!

I have a little short video on the …

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But if you have a little time to prepare, here's the situation I don't want you to find yourself in –

you're hanging high in the trees, leaning off to a side, unsure how to connect your perimeter, you stumble, the half-done-knot unties, and you (knock on wood) go tumbling down, clutching at loose rope-en…

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I don't live in america, we don't have american paracord in our home depots. And climbing rope? Proper static climbing rope of that thickness is expensive and often times needs to be orde…

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You love being outside. I do too. Whenever weather permits it, I try to be outside. With remote work most choose cafes. If their laptop brightness allows it, some try to sit outside on the cafe terrace during summers. Some daredevils will even take their laptops to the park (hi! It’s me, I’m this “daredevil”).

But those spaces are not yours.

So what have treenets become for me?

New spaces.

Spaces where I can work, where I can nap. Spaces that dry quickly after rain, and where ants don’t go (at least in my current experience). Spaces to go for a picnic date, or where to get some solitude and thinking / journaling time.

A treenet is a treehouse made of rope up in the trees, where you weave it yourself. Your very own little summer house, strung between living trunks.

As well as a first practice at building your home.

In the modern day we don’t really build our homes much. Sometimes we don’t even build within them. This human experience might peak at assembling the odd ikea furniture piece.

But there is something special about creating a space.

It teaches you care, responsibility, as well as daring and adventure. You can look at it as an exercise of your human free will. Or grounding you to the trees and nature. An accessible starting point to the human experience of creation.

And a rare access point that already bears sweet fruit.

While other hobby sets of accessible creation will lead you to a… coloured in colouring book, functionless carpentry box, or some other token— this hobby set ends with you having created a space. For what? For whatever you want it for.

It can be your Hemingway’s writing house. Or a meditation retreat. Or a dedicated picnic spot. And all of these together.

I read, write, work, think, sleep, eat, and tinker.

I will learn in time how best and better to relay the magic and usefulness of creating a new space, but this is my first attempt.

If this attempt enticed you, read on and create your own new space.

Whether for yourself, your kids, where to take your friends, or where to take no one.

Let us go on this journey and I’ll help you get to your very own Tarzan house, Hemingway’s writing chamber, picnic in the skies—

—your very own Treenet.

i have more points in landing page

Simple? Yes. But there are variations (upside down with lock for ending; whether you wrap around when bouncing; how to tie it tight af)

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We all need spaces to spend time in. For me, I get inspired and enjoy my life more when the spaces I am in are beautiful, connected with nature, out in the sun.

Whenever weather allowed it I went outside, sat in a park, or at least tried to find a good view. But sometimes you want the space more controlled, or private, or silent.

Treenets do that for me. The height adds a surprising amount of privacy, where you can work our journal or just take a nap.

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This is the index post of all the content, tackle it all in order or skip around if you feel familiar enough with certain sections. Do note, I will try to fill every bit with tiny perky details, so skip sections at your own peril (say, you know the clove hitch, so you skip the knot post, but do you know why you should do an upside down clove hitch and how to lock it?).

Section 0.

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