Just a quick question for all the bridge hammock users. What is the smallest tarp you have used consistently with your bridge hammock? Any pro/cons? Any one use a Maccat Micro?
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Just a quick question for all the bridge hammock users. What is the smallest tarp you have used consistently with your bridge hammock? Any pro/cons? Any one use a Maccat Micro?
im definently not a bridge expert but for 15 more dollars you can get a tarp that has as much coverage as the standard : http://wildernesslogics.com/Tad-Pole-Tad-Pole.htm
I just got a MacCat deluxe, only had it over the BB. I had side pull outs added to my deluxe for when i use the bridge.
When i was looking, before i got the deluxe, i vaguely remember reading somewhere that as long as the ridge is 10ft that you should be fine, depending on how much coverage you want.
I have used a Maccat Deluxe over my GrizzBridge! Was tight and required some close attention to placement, but it covered it!
I tend to think about more of a rectangle tarp for a bridge. It is the opposite of a gather end as fat so being wide in the ends and narrow in the middle.
I used a rectangular 8 x 10 with my DIM bridge. Its tight, but I was out for at least one night of thunderstorms without getting wet.
so it sounds like I need something that is bare minimum a 90" wide rectangle.
I use a Gargoyle Gear Ogee tarp with my BMBH and it kept me dry through 2 nights and 1 solid day of rain at the recent Ontario Spring Hang. It is an 11' ridgeline and think of it as a diamond tarp that has half height doors starting at the ridge. Or think of it as a 11' long x 5.5' rectangle tarp with a triangle panel added on each side to make it a diamond tarp. Sadly they aren't being made currently.
Cheers
Brian
Soon, very soon....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BrianWillan
Hamhocker uses the Mamajamba with her JRB Bridge hammock.
Here is my GrizzBridge under a Speer Winter Tarp.... this tarp isno longer made but similar to some. Dimensions: Ridgeline .... 128" or 10' 7"
Width at narrowest .... 102" or 8'6"
Weight ... 16.95 ounces or 1 pound .09 oz or 480 gram
In my opinion Bridges need a long ridgeline due to the bridge type suspension.
Shug
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5233/...9bc0d737_z.jpg
Grizz Bridge set-up by Sean Shug Emery, on Flickr
I agree with shug on the ridgeline, and personally feel more comfortable with a rectangular tarp. The Ogee also looks like it would work. I could get decent coverage with my WB BMJ, but am unsure how it would have done in a rainstorm.
You are going to use a Dutch bridge? I don't know anything about the dimensions of those. I have used a JRB bridge, which has about 9'6" between the outer rings ( I think the new ones are meant to be adjusted a few inches shorter than that). So a 10 foot tarp will extend a few inches past those rings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mancat
However, I tried a MacCat Dlx with the JRB, and with the hex cut it seemed pretty marginal to me. I don't think I would want to use a tarp much smaller than my JRB 10x11 rectangular cut with it, unless I had some sort of undercover or add on doors. But that is just me, some people get by with a good bit less tarp than I like.
Don't forget, you are going to need room for the spreader bars!