Lattice CCF

[BigJim]

My thread injector broke so I'm ancy too do some Improving on my winter hanging experince. I personaly never really liked sleeping on a ccf in my dl hammock I always oke up with a sore hip. But always loved the warmth. So I messed with latticing (if thats a word) strips of ccf pad from WW. Taping the ends togather. Have not got to try it in hammock yet but was surprisingly comfy on ground. I winged this one together nothing is cut strait but It's a prototype. I'm thinking of covering with ripstop. I like how flexable it is also.1110102207[1].jpg. Its 27" by 42" I was shooting for 2/3 length.

[BigJim]

I just went out after posting this thread and setup my hammock and placed my new pad between the layers. This thing is comfy the lattice gives this pad some spring and makes it flexable enough to conform to the hammock with out buckling. It just started to warm up before I had to come back in and report back.

[Lonely Raven]

Thats some excellent handy work! And I bet it breathes a little better than straight up CCF pad would. Wrapped in breathable ripstop or not, I think you've got something good there.

[dejoha]

Wow, that looks like some fancy work. You might be able to get the same effect (breathability) by just drilling a whole bunch of small holes. Let us know how your tests proceed.

[BigJim]

The thing I hate about a ccf pad is about 3 am. I feel like I'm laying on a peice of ply wood. This thing is real springy because of the weave. And maybe flexable enough to hang under hammock as under quilt. I just kinda through it togather I want to make another 50x35 with 2" evenstrips. Another thought I had about this weaved pad is a sleeping bag may loft alittle bit under you(because of the weave). And a peice of refletex on the bottom side will give you a air gap too. The lattice pad is warm as is though. Heading to deer camp this weekend will be sleeping in it for aleast two nights. Will give feed back.

[WV]

Very nice. I'm going to try this with a thin evazote pad (formerly the outer shell for an Exped air matress). I was going to modify this pad just by putting darts around the edge like an underquilt, but I like the flexibility the weave would provide. Will try to retain the shaping that darts would give by tapering the ends of the strips.

How about a summer-weight version with ccf for the longitudinal strips and nylon for the cross strips? Could taper those strips, too.

[JohnSawyer]

Very interesting idea. A follow-on to this:

I have some PE Foam (Ok, it's laminate floor foam underlayment) it's .1" thick, and amazingly light. In a hammock, it has the same buckling issue as a CCF pad, but not as bad... I might try the weaving trick and see how it goes...

[Lonely Raven]

Very interesting idea. A follow-on to this:

I have some PE Foam (Ok, it's laminate floor foam underlayment) it's .1" thick, and amazingly light. In a hammock, it has the same buckling issue as a CCF pad, but not as bad... I might try the weaving trick and see how it goes...

I've been sitting a half a roll of this same stuff since installing Ikea flooring in our bedroom. I was thinking the same thing. Mac experimented with this, but abandoned the idea.

[BigJim]

I got a chance to use this pad over the weekend. It worked great! The temps dipped into the upper 30's and I never got cold with just a sheet of reflectex on bottom then this pad over it. I wore a fleece pull over, cotton long johns, wool socks and a stocking cap.
I would advise anyone too try this. In my openion its better than just a standard ccf in Comfort (you can even lay it in a folding camp chair), Size( you can costomize it in any size you need), Warmth (its twice as thick in most spots) and Breathabilty.
There's lots of ways to improve this techique. It's also very cheap mod just sissors, tape and a ww ccf.

[scum]

Digging up an old thread here. I recalled reading this some time ago and thinking it was a great idea to lattice/weave the ccf for improved breathability and better insulation. I'm real curious how the tests turned out and if anyone has tried reproducing it. If so what were the results?