Luv the Gulliver painting! but he's a grounder and deserves being tied up!
Luv the Gulliver painting! but he's a grounder and deserves being tied up!
Just wait... it's on my manufacturing schedule.Originally Posted by MedicineMan
It's nothing like what we discussed. I included it because Lori thought the description sounded like that product.
Seems to me a partial bugnet for a hammock can be done one of two ways. The first is a partial sock, like DebW's bugnet bivvy shown on Just Jeff's page.
The other way is what we discussed. I'm going to make one that doesn't go around the hammock, just drapes from above. The bottom edges will pile up above your head, around your shoulders and on your stomach.
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
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Oh-No puts small binder clips on the corners of his bugnet and then hangs his wet hiking socks from them. Drys out his socks while holding down the bugnet.
Exercise, eat right, die anyway -- Country Roads bumper sticker
Fall seven times, standup eight. -- Japanese Proverb
I was thinking of making pockets on the part that would hang over the sides, so you could put stuff in it, like I do with my hammock sock SEEP.
- MacEntyre, ACC rules!
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
www.MollyMacGear.com
Pockets sound cool. At first I was thinking of little pockets to put rocks in. I'm also thinking about having a thin shock cord attaching two end corners across the bottom of hammock. Also for the two end corners at the top to create some tension to keep it in place when you move around in the hammock. Would just pull on it to move it in and out of place like the Yeti.
Exercise, eat right, die anyway -- Country Roads bumper sticker
Fall seven times, standup eight. -- Japanese Proverb
What about using a bugnet hood/hat and using a small piece of shock cord to hold it off your face. Most quilts are brought up to shoulder length anyways
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2)
I put a bottle of water 1/3 full in my sock SEEP pockets, so I can sip in the middle of the night. A book also works.
What if you roll over on your side? What if you want to read a book?
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
www.MollyMacGear.com
I do wonder about a fractional bugnet during hot weather. I'm just as likely to ramove my TQ as leave it on when it's warm. Ed Speer's velcro solution is quite elegant in its simplicity. For those who cannot stand velcro, having three small pockets on each side of a velcro drape will hold a bugnet in place. Brandon's full bugnet weighs about 7 ounces. If you removed the bottom of the tube and replaced it with the aforementioned pockets, you'd have your sub 4 ounce bugnet. All that is need for it to work is a ridgeline.
Equinox Mantis Mosquito Net
$22.27 plus shipping. The website claims 4 ounces, I weighed mine and my scale says 4.2 ounces including the stuff sack and an included length of shock cord. You don't necessarily need the stuff sack but for me it's dual-use (rock sack for my bear-bag system).
No way I'd go without a bug net in MN. Not just for the mosquitoes but spiders and other crawlies as well. I use permethrin on my pants, gaiters and outer shirt but don't see the need to use it on the hammock or bug netting.
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