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    so i just made a DIY hammock for the first time, not sure if i did it right. i used material that is 60" wide, doesn't lie like my HH so maybe that's why i'm thrown off a little cause i haven't laid it anything else. I'm able to wrap the side walls completely around me almost like i'm in a sock. is this normal with these types of hammocks at 60" wide?

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    can you wrap it around you when laying diagonal? i use 66" and it works for me. i am a big fella who uses fabric that isn't rated for his weight(flattness) so i sleep on a hard diagonal which does tighten up loose side. add a tie-out by your head to pull the fabric away and you'll be good i think.

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    i can only wrap it around me when laying down the center. if I lay diagonally my feet seem like they could slip out the side. i did use 1.1 and doubled it up and added a 30" slit near the head to slip a pad in there. the pad does help a little with the fabric. i haven't added a ridge line, not sure if i'm going to. it lays pretty flat at 11' long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bloomgorge View Post
    i can only wrap it around me when laying down the center. if I lay diagonally my feet seem like they could slip out the side. i did use 1.1 and doubled it up and added a 30" slit near the head to slip a pad in there. the pad does help a little with the fabric. i haven't added a ridge line, not sure if i'm going to. it lays pretty flat at 11' long.
    Sloppy sides are the norm with this hammock design. For my main gathered end hammock I added a "footbox" triangle to one side. Keeps the top quilt from sliding out onto the ground.

    See posts number 3 & 4 in this thread: http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=25800
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    Another factor in why the edges flop on this and not on your HH is because your HH is built w/ asymetrical tie-outs. If you don't like to loose edges you could add tie out points to this hammock design pretty easy.

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    I get floppy sides with any design I've tried that doesn't have a bug net.
    Adding the bug net generally keeps the sides from flopping I my face.
    And it keeps m feet from slipping out also.
    I'm 6'4" and wake up with dangling feet regularly in my HH clone w/o bug net.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rjcress View Post
    I get floppy sides with any design I've tried that doesn't have a bug net.
    Adding the bug net generally keeps the sides from flopping I my face.
    And it keeps m feet from slipping out also.
    I'm 6'4" and wake up with dangling feet regularly in my HH clone w/o bug net.
    That's interesting. I would have thought the HH clone would have shortened sides, keeping things more upright. My Speer has no net but is definitely bathtub like with no chance of feet falling out. Hmmm?
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    i can see that my feet want to slip out the side if i lay at any angle. i think I might play with the idea of making this more like a HH using headchange4u's method on one of his post. but to begin i think i'm going to change the whipping to a gather and bias the opposite sides to see if this improves. i haven't added a ridgeline so we'll see if that improves anything.
    to be honest, it's for a buddy and not me so he's the rat in these trails.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Knotty View Post
    Nothing new here but thought some might find it useful to see step by step pictures on how to make a gathered end hammock. Use 3-4 yards of material, depending on how tall you are. I'm 6'2" and started with 11'6" of 1.9oz ripstop from Speer.

    The whipping method comes from the Warbonnet hammocks and I learned it from others on the forum. I've changed the ridgeline a bit. On a Warbonnet it runs thru the whipped hammock ends. I wanted the ridgeline to be removable so I could play with different lengths. Mine is just a line of 2.2mm Zing-It (or is it Lash-It?) with eye splices at each end thru which the suspension gets run. Suspension is 7/64" Amsteel Blue.

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    Rottmaster - The answer is right in front of you. First paragraph, last sentence of the quoted message above.

    "I'm 6'2" and started with 11'6" of 1.9oz ripstop from Speer."
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