Suddenly, Claytor's Bat Hammock doesn't seem so crazy after all, lol
If he could refine it a bit so you could hang it between two trees like most camping hammocks he may be on to something.
"If you play a Nicleback song backwards, you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forward, you'll hear Nickleback." - Dave Grohl
Not too sure what you mean here - do you mean you would close off the head end with fabric in some manner and then sit with your legs out in front of you and your back against the added fabric?
Do you mean using the spectra along the ends of the hammock where the Australian one uses rope? Unless you stitched the spectra all along the edge as the Australian one did it wouldn't work. Also, you would need a twisted rope to hold the stitching in twists of the rope. Braided or rope with a braided cover wouldn't work. Really narrow webbing, probably polyester webbing for the strength would work. The webbing could be sewn in the hem easier than rope and sewn to the fabric at the same time. Wouldn't want to use any webbing wider than 1/2" though. The webbing would pucker along the curve if too wide and distort the curve.
When you tried the JRB version, did it seem wide enough for a pad?
For those of you lucky people who got to try out the JRB hammock at Trail Days I have a question for you: How did you get in and out of the hammock?
I noticed looking at the pic of the JRB hammock it looks like one of the ends is open. You don't crawl through the end of it do you?
I was also looking at the webbing used for the suspension. Are those biners at the junction of where the hammock webbing meets the webbing that goes to the trees?
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." -Terry Pratchett
the trekking pole/spreader bar that i use doesn't have as much force on it as i think the JRB bars do. and if they make them wider, they will no doubt have even more force on them.
to get a better idea of what my trekking pole does, lay in a top entry hammock, reach up w/ both hands & spread the top edges of the hammock out.
it doesn't take a lot to open it up.
when you do, your shoulders make a little less contact w/ the hammock walls & you have a better view of the world around you. ...tim
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