Homemade Slackline?

1" tubular webbing is the stuff you want, plus a couple oval ring carabiners.

webbing goes through the carabiners like this:

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the green is the carabiner

doing this works like a charm, and holds just as well as a ratchet will.
 
i'm personally a big fan of the ratchet type of slackline setups, they're much easier to set up/ adjust and you can generally get these tighter, especially if you're on your own ....
 
I have the exact same setup as the one in that video. It works really well for me, ended up costing like 60 bucks I think. The only thing is once you get over 30-35 feet, you need a second person to help pull it tight. But, once you get the hang of it, you can set it up really fast and walking it is a lot of fun.
 
I use 2" flat webbing with a ratchet, I had it lying around from towing some stuff on a trailer. You can get it really cheap I've tried both 1" and 2" wide webbing and find that 2" is a lot nicer IF you plan to do tricklining, which I find to be a lot more fun. It really does not have to be that long, my line is about 20 feet, sometimes I secure it at max length, sometimes I go shorter, but for tricklining you want it as tight as possible, so distance is less of a factor than if you were doing long lines. You can pick up the stuff for 60 cents a foot from a bunch of places online, and you could pick up a ratchet strap for like $15-20. If you don't want to use a ratchet, carabiners are fairly cheap, you just want to make sure you get really good quality ones, ones with screw-in locks. Personally, I like ratchets; they're easier to set up, you can get them really tight. You may be able to get all of this stuff from some online craigslist/freecycle type place. In the end, really, a slackline is just what you make of it, there is no wrong or right way to do it.
 
I make mine like the first video but without the line lockers with 1in tubbing and it's worked great for years.
 
It's way easier than you'd think to set up a home

Made one. Go to MEC or a climbing store and they should be able to help you out. Mine cost me like $50.
 
1 Inch tubular spec webbing works very well. I made one myself and it works wonderfully. It doesn't get torn up like one with a ratchet does, and they're pretty easy to setup.
 
Climbers, who originally "made" the slackline, do not use those Gibbons kits. Also, it isn't Camp 9, it's Camp 4 in Yosemite. Climbers originally walked the chain link fences, then someone got the idea to use webbing. All you need is a decent section of webbing and some locking carabiners. Oh, and a little know-how, which you can acquire from teh Internets.
 
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