hey, do you tend to change positions in the bridge during the night, or do you tend to stick with one position all night long, or have you not slept in it long enough to notice?
hey, do you tend to change positions in the bridge during the night, or do you tend to stick with one position all night long, or have you not slept in it long enough to notice?
I move some, probably change positions when I wake, which seems to happen every couple of hours. Unless I'm really exhausted.
Once this summer on a backpacking trip, after a particularly grueling day, I lay in one position (my back) in my HH Explorer, for 11 hours, answering nature's call at most twice. After the rigors of the day it was heaven to just float there.
Grizz
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Grizz, TeeDee, anyone:
If I wanted to put a pad sleeve on a bridge hammock, should I just make it with 2 full layers, or could I sew a sleeve just the width of the pad (like 20" wide). Didn't know what you thought about the stich holes weakening the nylon. I'd like to somehow get a sort of trapazoidal cross section with a thermarest for the bottom, any ideas?
Would it work to just sew a pad sleeve with webbing on the edges, then run different lengths of webbing up to the suspension cord on each side (like a real suspension bridge, the pad sleeve being the bridge deck). Fill in the sides with netting or something later? Sorta like this (viewed from the side):
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Even if this worked it would probably be a real mess of tangled webbing when I took it down huh??
I bet sleeping with a pad in a bridge hammock is MUCH less hassle than sleeping with a pad in a normal hammock where you sleep diagonally. Might not even need a pad pocket.
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The JRB hammock is cut in three pieces, like Dutch's amazing pack-o-bridge, using flat-felled seams. The middle section is 26" or so width, and they attach a pocket that width by incorporating it into those seams. I'm going to try that someday.
I'd be leery of puncturing the load-bearing fabric by just sewing on a pocket. Call me conservative--- now WalkingBear did a 2-body hammock, cut the outer body 1/2" wider, so this is possible.
I guess you know but I'll state for the record that at the moment I'm using a completely separate 2nd body, cut to the same dimensions as the 1st body. This body can easily be 1.1 oz, hence light. I used 1" grosgrain, folded over to 1/2", to play the role that 1/2" webbing does in the main body. I also put on grosgrain loops every 9" or so, and threaded spyderline through that. Tied onto a ring at one end,
looped through a ring at the other end and back to a figure-9, I can adjust the tension. Look close up at this picture on the left side and you can side the loops with the spyderline going through it. This has the advantage over a double-bodied hammock that you can put varying width padding...I used a 3" thick downmat in there one night. Downside is extra weight. Also some pads do move, my thermarest in particular. I'm afraid this would happen in a 2-body hammock, and it would be harder to fix from inside. I think I can address that issue with some straps sewn onto the 2nd body.
I'm inclined to the two-body solution for the sake of weight, but am concerning about the potential for a slipping pad and the difficulty of fixing that without getting out of the hammock.
Grizz
Hrm...that's surprising.
Re: sewing directly to the body, I haven't had problems with my down hammock.
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- My site: http://www.tothewoods.net/
- Designer, Jeff's Gear Hammock / Pack Cover by JRB
IMPOSSIBLE JUST TAKES LONGER
That's an understatement. I use a 24" wide wally world pad in my JRB bridge and it does not move around in the pad pocket. No buckling and other pains associated with pads in traditional hammocks. I'm looking for a 26" wide pad so I can use the maximum width the pad pocket allows. I tell you I am just as comfy with a pad(s) than with an underquilt in this hammock. I am finally able to sleep well on my back in a hammock. Pure bliss.
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