ENO double nest

**crazy_dave** · 04-13-2011, 07:16

I know there is a post somewhere, but for the life of me I can’t find it again.
I just got an ENO double nest that I switch out the stock suspension for webbing and rings. I double looped 5/32 spyder line thru the channel, attached the rings with a Prusik Knot, and finished it all off with a double fisherman’s.
Here’s the thing. 1. There seems to be alot of excess material on the sides. Is this just the norm for the DN? 2. Everything is getting squeezed to the middle, especially my shoulders. I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to recenter everything on the Spyder line. But I won’t be able to pull the outside edges slightly forward like I do when I whip my gathered end hammocks because of the channel. Is there a way I should be cinching everything up on the Spyder line?
This hammock will mostly be used for two people and not necessarily an overnight/ camping hammock. GF and I just enjoy lounging down by the lake most of the time.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

**Green Mountain Boy** · 04-13-2011, 07:24

Glad to see this question here.

I have a ENO DN due to be delivered today and I am planning to redo the ends Warbonnet style and add whoopies and maybe a ridgeline. I'm new to hammocks so I'm trying to absorb as much info. as I can. I don't know if I have this right, but it seems to me that if you run a cord through the channel at the end of the hammock, there really isn't any choice about the gather...

**Bubba** · 04-13-2011, 07:42

I have an ENO DN which i have experimented since I got it.

The excess material on the sides is a common issue. It ends up flopping. What I ended up doing was actually cutting off the different coloured side material which solved my issues. It was just a little too wide for me. With it being narrower the sides do not flop and I lay diagonally just right.

I tried whipping it Warbonnet style but that was after I had cut of the sides and there wasn't much difference that I noticed. I remember reading a thread where someone redid the foot end in such a way as to pull the sides tighter to eliminate the flop but I can't find it.

The parachute nylon tends to create more of a bathtub feel to the hammock. My WBBB, (and Traveler I used to have) and Sitchback LH do not give the same feeling so I guess the material has a lot to do with it. I have an unmodified DN clone and the flop is there as well.

**cinnamon** · 04-13-2011, 07:48

Originally Posted by crazy_dave

1. There seems to be alot of excess material on the sides. Is this just the norm for the DN? 2. Everything is getting squeezed to the middle, especially my shoulders.

while relatively new to the forum i became a full time hanger last october using the double nest. 1. unless i lay at an extreme diagonal, head and feet at / on the edges floppy sides have been the norm for me regardless of amount of sag. 2. can't say that i've ever noticed a problem with shoulder squeeze. using the stock suspension with a 102" ridge line from biner to biner

have you played around with the amount of sag?

**crazy_dave** · 04-13-2011, 08:11

I’ve only had it out a handful of times and played with the sag very little. I can get it good for myself but it seems harder to do with the gf.
When I have had the sag set better I got the bathtub feel like stated above. That’s the perfect description BTW. Its not an uncomfortable hammock, it’s just different then my gathered end and HH. I didn’t know if I had caused the loose sides and (bathtub) feel by changing the suspension.

**cataraftgirl** · 04-13-2011, 08:34

I have a Trek Light double which is very similar to the ENO DN. I have the floppy sides also. Just part of the deal for a wider hammock I guess??? I sleep on a diagonal and I'm comfy. With two people in the hammock I'm guessing you can't get enough diagonal to get rid of the bathtub feel. I doubt that your suspension system has much to do with it. I also have a WB Traveler that I have only hung in once so far. As Bubba mentioned, the fabric in the Trek Light/ENO does have more give than the Traveler fabric. I've noticed it more when I go to get out of the hammock, than when I'm sleeping in it. Keep experimenting. I'm sure you'll get it dialed in better.
KJ

**cinnamon** · 04-13-2011, 08:37

Originally Posted by Bubba

I remember reading a thread where someone redid the foot end in such a way as to pull the sides tighter to eliminate the flop but I can't find it.

this thread perhaps?

http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=29560

**Red Wing** · 04-13-2011, 09:36

Originally Posted by Bubba

I have an ENO DN which i have experimented since I got it.

The excess material on the sides is a common issue. It ends up flopping. What I ended up doing was actually cutting off the different coloured side material which solved my issues. It was just a little too wide for me. With it being narrower the sides do not flop and I lay diagonally just right.

I tried whipping it Warbonnet style but that was after I had cut of the sides and there wasn't much difference that I noticed. I remember reading a thread where someone redid the foot end in such a way as to pull the sides tighter to eliminate the flop but I can't find it.

The parachute nylon tends to create more of a bathtub feel to the hammock. My WBBB, (and Traveler I used to have) and Sitchback LH do not give the same feeling so I guess the material has a lot to do with it. I have an unmodified DN clone and the flop is there as well.

Doesn't that make it a single then?

**Bubba** · 04-13-2011, 11:36

Originally Posted by cinnamon

this thread perhaps?

http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=29560

No it was another thread where the guy whipped the end and folded it over and then wrapped the amsteel around it or something like that.

Originally Posted by Slo

Doesn't that make it a single then?

Its still 10 inches wider than a single nest and there are no seams to lie on as well. Basically it made it the same width as the WB Traveler I had. I had a single nest knock off and the seams dug in to me when laying on them. I have tried an ENO SN since then and the seams were no were near as bad but I could still feel them.