Super cool - Thanks for sharing!! :thumbsup:
Super cool - Thanks for sharing!! :thumbsup:
When I saw this I thought- "oh, a quilt with caternary cuts," not cattails! heh.
TH
my hammock gear weights total: 2430g (~86oz)
Winter: total 2521 (~89oz)
(see my profile for detailed weights)
gram counter, not gram weenie!
So how many cats, I mean cattails did it take to make that baby.
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Nice! Very frugal!
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Sweet job mate, well done, hope the testing goes well eh. Looking forward with everyone for the results.
Very nice, let us know how it does?
Very cool - looking forward to the field test
VERY nice.
Been following this cattail idea for some time myself. Looking forward to the test results. Do you think you resolved the problems you had showing light areas in the fill(pic in front of the window), if so was it just a matter of more CATs?
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I vote for a test this weekend! even a S24O will tell much, and you don't have to worry about haling the 3lbs too far down the trail.
KM (jealous! got a bunch of pods drying in the garage- had mucho bugs this round; giving them a chance to evacuate..)
I filled 4 grocery store sized bags with cattail heads and used 80% in the construction of the catquilt. I had a lot of waste and restarts, though. I would guess that the cattails expand to 4 or 5 times their starting volume. If you wanted 50 cubic inches filled, you would want to shoot for 10 cubic inches of head, or about 1 large head, or two or more smaller ones.
Yes, I added more insulation. As I went on the density of the fluff I was adding changed quite a bit. It started really dense, then really light (which took forever and compressed once in the quilt anyway), then finally settled on a medium that was compressible and lofted back up well. If you got a chance to see my quilt on a hang, you would notice that some of the baffles are a little more dense than the others, which reflects this changing/emerging process I had. Some of the first ones don't compress too well and are firm to the touch.
I don't know what an S240 is, please explain?? I had lots of bugs in mine too. Even after letting it sit out for days to dry, the bugs were there. They are plant eating bugs and harmless to us, so not a threat like bedbugs. I know you were involved in the discussion in the other thread, but I'll reiterate it here for others reading this, that it was discussed that putting the cattail heads in a clothes dryer would help dry the heads and help with killing bugs as well.
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