The Most RIDICULOUS Sleep!

[Bushwhacker]

So with forecasts of snow, and no tarp I spent a good 2 hours wandering around my house to find a good sheltered spot to hang. I tried two closet doors, reinforced by horizontal bars behind the doorframe - that didn't end up working since one bar kept falling. I looked in my attic for beams - there weren't any that seemed strong enough. I looked inside my house for a tarp - well I found several, but didn't want to set it up.


So here is what I ended up doing:

I hooked my warbonnet suspension up to a pillar in my house.
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And then I hooked the other side of my blackbird suspension to the first, and attached my DIY hammock to my WBBB
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And brought the other end of my hammock to the windowframe where it was connected up to two lengths of suspension that attached to my pygmy cherry tree.
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Of course I blocked up the window with the curtains
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And an air mattress that fit perfectly in the window frame (I put a blanket under the suspension so the amsteel wouldn't dig in to the window frame wood).
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[Bushwhacker]

Then I hooked up a mummy bag to my hammock
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Filled said mummy bag with down jackets (flash made the hammock look white here)
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I put two down comforters on the floor so that the hammock compressed them when I hung in it.
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And moved a box and foot-rest close to the hammock to push the comforters up around the sides of the hammock.
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[Fish<><]

When you gotta hang, you just GOTTA hang! That there is some outside of the box thinking. Sweet deal....

[grannypat]

You sure were determined to hang!

[gypsy_infantry]

That's some dedication, I've to say that's a lot of work and a good idea. How well did it work? Any damage to your walls?

[Birch]

That looked like a sketch of Wile E. Coyote trying to drop the safe on roadrunner as he ran thru the cañon. Awesome.

[Bushwhacker]

That's some dedication, I've to say that's a lot of work and a good idea. How well did it work? Any damage to your walls?

I slept there for 3 nights, and there wasn't even any superficial denting. But my house is really old, so it's quite likely that there is a solid brick pillar beneath the paint.

I did need the blanket on the windowsill though, that amsteel can saw through wood like butter.