Wonked together a smallish gear hammock out of an old zip tent bag. I just ran a piece of line through the little gather behind one of the zippers right from end to end, cut off the handles, and hung it from the cinch buckle on my AMOK to the tree.
I'm going to get the seamstress here in the village to sew some daisy chains to those strap remnants on the front, and sew an 8" x 14" no-see-um pocket below the zipper on the backside-inside. [I have a whole el cheapo tent to strip for parts and materials... Three bucks at a yard sale with six different sets of poles... none of which matched the tent].
Next time I hit one of our vendors for some zing-it, I will trade out the cord for a whoopie. And I figure that one of the RSBTR $10-DIY bags should give me sil-poly to toss a little sewn-on weather "tarp" over the top.
It is surprisingly roomy... More so than the photos show. I have a Dutch 11 footer, my toilet kit, my rigging/lines bag, as well as the hat and the pillow all stuffed in there. It packs down to the size of a RedBull can.
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