Therapeutic value

[NMTrekker]

During the spring, I travel shearing the wool from sheep. This year, instead of accepting the hospitality of my clients, I have asked to pitch my hammock outside. I can always find trees, fences, barns, or corral corners. Shearing sheep is very close to being in a bar fight that lasts all day. At the end of the day, I am exhausted, bruised, often bleeding. I am usually hungry, dehydrated, and feel a bit sick. I discovered that a long night in a hammock keeps me still and let's my body heal and recover. I wake up from a bed sore and tired after thrashing all night from pain. I wake up from my hammock feeling rested and ready to go back to work on more sheep.

In addition to my time in the back country, here is a thrapeutic application of Hammocking!

[FJRpilot]

Welcome to the the forums NMT... Interesting occupation you have. A lot of folks use hammocks to replace their beds and sleep year round by hanging indoors. I have often thought of hanging in hotel rooms to get a better nights rest. I'll be traveling to Africa the end of this month and plan to bring my trusty DIY along, just in case. I started with a HH and it basically got he hooked on hammocks. You need to try an 11 footer... It was a an order of magnitude more comfortable the the HH.

[Dman62]

Ive gone to fulltime indoor hanging due to back pain. Its nice to get up in the morning without a night of tossing and turning.

[Pyrogen]

I've never been able to get to sleep on my back with out feeling sick. Something about a hammock though that allows me to do so for the first time in decades. Waking up the next morning with no neck torque pain from laying on my stomach all night was the frosting on the cake. It took me a week to abandon the bed.

[NMTrekker]

FJR:
I have an 11 foot on order, just to try something different.
I lived a year in Kenya in the 1970's.

[GadgetUK437]

I thought shearing was a young man's game, do they call you "Gramps"? LOL

[NMTrekker]

Hey Gadget:
It is a young man's game. I'm a blade shearer. When a young man sees me work, he decides he can find a way to make a living that involves less physical effort. That's why this grampa needs a hammock to help recover after a day's work.
The same is true in my other job as a biologist. When the young guys hit their mid 30's, they can no longer do the long, high elevation hikes into the back country. I wind up doing that work too, just because I can.

[NMTrekker]

And, Gadget, one other thing:
"Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools"---Kipling if I remember correctly. My young friends also would not know that.

[GadgetUK437]

Stoicism, deeply unfashionable these days.

[SnrMoment]

I'll second the therapeutic value of hammock sleeping. I'm in my 70's and still working construction. I have no aches/pains when I get up in the morning from the hammock and have been full time/outside hanger for the past 3 years.