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hacktorious
07-14-2009, 16:19
Anybody try one of these yet?
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0013098517409a&type=product&cmCat=froogle&cm_ven=data_feed&cm_cat=froogle&cm_pla=1500104&cm_ite=0013098517409a
Greg Dunlap
07-14-2009, 16:54
My experience has been that they work fine as long as your on the ground. Get settled in a hammock and they slide out from under you and end up on top of ya by morning.
Smear some mcnett's silicon on the bottom of the pad in dots, lines, and squiggles. Less sliding around.
gargoyle
07-14-2009, 19:11
The egg-crate foam is open-cell foam isn't it? that would be a big sponge.
hacktorious
07-14-2009, 20:22
Hmmm, I wonder if it would be any different in a double-bottom hammock.
gargoyle
07-14-2009, 20:42
yep pad sticks nice in my diy double layer.
Take-a-knee
07-14-2009, 20:55
The egg-crate foam is open-cell foam isn't it? that would be a big sponge.
Yeah, it said the bottom of the pad was closed cell, that means it's a sponge with a waterproof bottom.
gargoyle
07-14-2009, 21:01
yeah that wont weigh much when its wet.http://members.outpost10f.com/~lindax/spongebob/images/spongebob-pictures/spongebob1.gif
Knighthorse
07-15-2009, 00:37
Went to wallyworld to look at the CCF pads a day or so ago. They have the 20" blue, and the 24" eggcrate looking one. The crate one is labeled as closed cell foam also. This crate looking one is brown/gray I think, dark,(I'm lousy with certain colors) and has two little elastic straps on it.(black straps) The eggcrate pattern is noticeable, but very muted. Thought about getting the blue one, but the one big enough was $10.eighty-something. I believe the crate one was $14something.
Rock_Hanger
07-15-2009, 20:16
I have tried the Wally World egg crate one its an Ozark trail product I believe and an ugly blue color, so brown/gray is close enough haha. The pad is faily thick and buckles and bulges everywhere when you try to fit it in a hammock. How ever it sticks pretty well to my 1.1 oz hammock. I personally have never a had a good experience with a foam pad in a hammock. I never tried with a double layer though.
My wife has had an early version of this since before we met almost 20 yrs ago. Not bad on the ground but slipped in the hammock because the "sticky" side is the upward facing open cell foam and the "slick" side was the downward facing ccf. It also tended to buckle in the hammock and it doesn't pack down small at all - the CCF is fairly stiff so you need to roll the pad and it is much larger than a 3/8" CCF pad when rolled. The weight is not bad, though.