20 Hammocks 3 Weeks

[SwampSloth]

Wonder if I am biting off more than I can chew. I'm building 20 hammocks for a boy scout troop and would like to have them done it 3 weeks. Shouldnt be a problem right?!?!

[Fronkey]

You can do it man! That's only 1.05 a day. I'm sure those scouts are going to love them.

Fronkey

[UncleMJM]

Sounds like a great group project.

I had our youth group make about a dozen one afternoon. They were all unhemmed, gathered end knotted with a simple poly webbing suspension. They were a Risk Test Hammock/Speer 4 wrap knot type of set up. Since the heaviest occupant was 90lbs we never worried about hemming. Cost was about $10.00 per hammock and they lasted until the kids outgrew them.

It was a matter of stations;
1. cut fabric to the right length per kid,
2. gather ends and tie off in an overhand knot
3. cut webbing to length
4. attach webbing
5. find trees and take a nap.

[Bannerstone]

Sound like a merit badge kinda project. Putnem to work I say!

David

[Cannibal]

Make the coffee strong enough and I bet you can get them done in a day.

[gunner76]

from the title I thought it might be about hanging in 20 different hammocks over 3 weeks

[nothermark]

It should not take that long to hem the ends and do a Knotty type end either. It sounds like a good project to get the Scouts involved in. You also might want to rig up a large table to cut and pin on and maybe hold the cloth roll. You will save a lot of time and maybe your back. ;-)

[PapaSmurf]

You can do it.
I find it helps to crank the music, turn off the computer and leave the phone upstairs.

[dukedante]

Do you already have the fabric? If you're going to get it at a fabric store, you could ask really, really nicely if they would cut you 20 pieces the same size, since they've got the big tables and all. That should save you a big chunk of time.

[mountain_man_mike]

It sounds like a great opportunity for a teaching moment by involving the youth. The more they learn, the stronger and more independent they become. Having them measure, cut and run the "thread injector" are life lessons that they will reflect back on years later with a real sense of self pride and gratitude for their adult leaders. The gift of a skill learned is far greater than a gift itself... that old saying about "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" comes to mind.

Your reward is "force multiplied" by teaching a skill to the youth.

That's my 2 cents anyway.