Do cooking smells and/or campfire smells stick to the hammock or tarp? I want to keep mine as fresh as I can for as long as I can.
Washing Tips?
Do cooking smells and/or campfire smells stick to the hammock or tarp? I want to keep mine as fresh as I can for as long as I can.
Washing Tips?
leap and the net will appear
-zen saying
they can, but hopefully your hammock isnt that close to the fire!!! i worry about errant sparks.
but theres ways to wash both, someone covered the tarp washing a while back, and depending on the hammock type you can just toss it into a bucket and wash it (i have with my eno). just use some kind of hunting detergent so it doesnt become a bug magnet.
Give a man fire and he's warm for the night.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Dante
Good Idea to hang the hammock 30 or more feet from the fire.
As REV says, sparks and nylon don't mix. Then there's the bear thing with smells.
I have only washed my hammock 1 time and I soaked it in a bucket of cool water with 1 cap of woolite for
~20 minutes then hung it up in the back yard and sprayed it down with the hose and left hanging
over nite to dry. Worked great.
yup. your hammock WILL get smelly from your body anyway, and on hot days its guaranteed, lol.
Give a man fire and he's warm for the night.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Dante
I hand wash using Dr. Bronner's Soap. Love it.
Author and illustrator: The Ultimate Hang: An Illustrated Guide To Hammock Camping
I have just washed a TTTM, a WBBB and a WB Traveler. Simply popped them in the washing machine (front loader) and used the synthetics cycle on 30°. I had the WBBB in a net to prevent the bug net ripping. None of the hammocks were damaged. All looked like new after air drying.
Ok, thanks! I guess I'm just over-worried about me avoiding my hammock like a smokey jacket.
leap and the net will appear
-zen saying
Bear bait! Bit bear paranoid. Don't cook under the tarp I sleep under. If possible I prefer to cook the supper a km or two from where I will probably set up for the night.
Would just stick the tarp or hammock in the washing machine using the gentle cycle with temp set at cool.
Noel V.
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