Hammock Table?

**Gresh** · 02-01-2013, 15:55

Just saw this on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/Hammocks/)and saw this picture and wondered if anybody had ever tried something like this:

**breyman** · 02-01-2013, 15:59

I haven't ever tried something like that. Very clever, though!

**hppyfngy** · 02-01-2013, 16:39

That's pretty cute.

I've made lots of platform hanging bird feeders and it's a little tricky to get something to balance like that though. It would probably be a little fiddly, but try it and let us know!

**Disco** · 02-01-2013, 16:51

I have one of these that I've been thinking about bringing along on a trip. It would work as a stool and a perfect-sized small table for next to the hammock. Folds up small enough to strap to the back of my pack. It's 14.7oz.

http://www.amazon.com/ALPS-Mountaine...d_sim_sbs_sg_1

**swankfly** · 02-01-2013, 17:29

I would knock that crap over.

swank

**steveflinn** · 02-01-2013, 18:24

Don't laugh but way-back-when I used to stuff a couple of 5-gallon paint buckets into a seabag and fill em up with everything but my sleeping bag. Dragged em on 15-20 mile treks, though I was a lot younger and stupider (and less sober) then. That was before we discovered the sport of UL and made a god of Ray Jardine.

I still use them when car camping. They hold all the fiddly bits without a lot of $10 stuff sacks - plus all the categorizing and sorting and tracking and storing. Those buckets served as tables, chairs, garbage cans, water carriers, food cans, critter cages, creels, port-a-potty, and whatever else I could think of. And they defined the limits of what I would take - it had to fit and it had to be Luggable.

Come to think of it, maybe that deserves revisiting...they're about a pound each and maybe if ya used the thinnest ones available and cut out some holes where it wouldn't affect structure too much ....or used even smaller pails....hmmm... coil up the LazySlugs for back padding and add some webbing and shoulder straps.... hmmm...

Hey, why isn't there a reality show about us yet?

**Moel Siabod** · 02-01-2013, 19:12

Originally Posted by steveflinn

Hey, why isn't there a reality show about us yet?

It will come.

**Roadrunnr72** · 02-01-2013, 19:38

Originally Posted by Disco

I have one of these that I've been thinking about bringing along on a trip. It would work as a stool and a perfect-sized small table for next to the hammock. Folds up small enough to strap to the back of my pack. It's 14.7oz.

http://www.amazon.com/ALPS-Mountaine...d_sim_sbs_sg_1

I have one of those. Use it on canoe trips and car camping (Scout camporees). I like it, don't think I would take it hiking, HYOH (Hike Your Own Hike

).......RR

**Gresh** · 02-02-2013, 01:23

Worth pointing out: That ALPS stool/table mentioned a few times in this thread is on sale at Woot today for $15.

**MedicineMan** · 02-02-2013, 01:26

we've been carrying the grandtrunk micro stool for stool and table, got mine down to 9 ounces thanks to HNO applied cuben. While the one you linked to looks cool it'd be a jumble of spaghetti cords in my pack