Great comments by all. Love the water collection idea. lmao.
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Great comments by all. Love the water collection idea. lmao.
http://www.gizmag.com/tentsile-stingray-suspended-tent/26086/ Probably best for car camping. :rolleyes:
Wow, that's 6.4 lbs! This really needs some weight reduction strategy. That doesn't even include the tarp! Maybe there's some way to attach wheels to it and travois it behind! :laugh:
[QUOTE=gmcttr;858902]I'm thinking a cot and a bug net would be lighter and provide exactly the same lay.
I also want to know the weight of the unit. No way am I schlepping around a 10 pound unit...
meej62, what happened to your original post and images? :scared: Luckily, I saved them , but not sure if there is some issue re-posting them here, perhaps some problem regarding patent pending...
Manufacturer and weight info? Awesome looking bridge hammock! Available in USA?
Nasa has developed a non-brittle formula, http://tinyurl.com/9qfbrzr :)
Nice teaser. So I've seen your reviews of the Lawson and JRB hammocks, where can I find your review of the Eureka Chrysalis hammock? Warbonnet RR seems to have your thumbs up so far. I'm going to...
Flat, schmlat, the Navy couldn't ever be wrong, could it? :rolleyes:
For us baby boomers that refuse to acknowledge we can't do everything we used to do in our 20's, I really want to do a lot of hammock camping, but can't afford to test all the different hammocks...
I get a lot of my ideas from studying bridges. I watched a video on engineering where a self-supporting bridge from China was shown (see attached) and was really intrigued into trying to make this...
Sorry for the confusion. I have put the spaceframe hammock on the back burner for now. This is a 'normal' hammock that has added support near the midpoint by adding guylines further up the trees. I...
Following the tests on bridge hammocks, I am leaning to this design now. Lots to work out, but gotta start somewhere. Thanks for all the comments.
I second this excellent idea. Also wondering about using goretex or similar material on top and incorporating a pad on the bottom like Big Agnes does with their sleeping bags or sleeve for a pad on...
That's what I meant. I was just working within the parameters of the 3 hammocks originally being tested. This test will decide what hammock I end up buying as my one and only. They all seem to be...
Since Lawson seems to be the only hammock that can also act as a bivy, I am thinking that the Chrysalis and the BMBH have to have some really trick features to surpass this added value. Looking...
I haven't moved beyond the idea stage on this yet. I built a small spaceframe from skewers and glue to test the support strength of a crude spaceframe and it works fine, but it is a only a guess as...
If the BMBH is the only one with a sleeve for a pad, I am going to go with that for sure! Of course, if someone were to offer me any of the others for free, well.......:D
Pipsissewa, RePete & sargevining, sorry, I didn't mean to come across with negativity. I am open to any new innovation and wish anyone sincere kudos for innovating. I didn't realize the new hammock...
I'm also a side only sleeper and need to create hammock that has absolutely NO give. I'm looking at spaceframes, tensegrity and any other technologies that can provide this. Of course the whole...
Yes, I saw that too. I still need to figure out how to get an absolutely flat platform though. I may go back to my spaceframe idea, but it looked too complex, which usually means it has inherent...
Very Cool, thanks. Now I just have to DIY a teddy bear backpack/hammock!:D
So I went to White Mountains website and the hammock looks just like any other hammock. If anyone wants a real innovative challenge, consider my idea: a backpack that converts into a hammock. I am...
I am very interested in making multifunctional gear, so part of the idea here is to be able to create a multipurpose spaceframe that could become a backpack frame, a cot, a hammock, a table, a seat,...
Here is my quick attempt at developing a spaceframe/tensegrity hammock/cot that can either be on the ground as a cot or suspended from trees as a hammock. Got a lot of thinking to do on this, so any...
Greetings all, just found this forum in my search for the perfect nights sleep on the trail. I am trying to create a versatile hammock/cot using tensegrity physics. Something between...