Bug Net Help

[1Arm Bandit]

I have a Fronkey Style bug net on my DIY hammock and the last time I used it the net kept slipping around and hanging in my face. Does anyone have any sugestions on what I can do to keep this net off me?

[SilvrSurfr]

Do you have a hammock ridgeline? Works great for me.

[1Arm Bandit]

Yes, I have a ridge line. Im thinking of attaching the bug net to the line.

[Tendertoe]

Some pictures may be useful to help diagnose the issue.

If you do have a ridgeline and you are still having it hang in your face, it may be a function of the length of the ridgeline vs. the length of the hammock.

I ran into this same issue with my Grand Trunk UL hammock with a ridgeline.

In order for that specific hammock to be comfortable for me, I had to have a longer than usual ridgeline. This led the Fronkey style bugnet to hang in my face.

The solution, was a few webbing or grosgrain pullouts.

[1Arm Bandit]

Thanks Tender, I had to put a longer ridgeline on my Hammock as well.

[SilvrSurfr]

How long is your hammock? I'm just wondering if you built the bugnet for an 11 ft. hammock but you have a 10 ft. hammock.

[Tendertoe]

Yeah. I would also be interested in the dimensions of your hammock, hammock ridgeline, and bugnet.

From the sound of it though, even if the bugnet and ridgeline work together, just like my experience, you can still have the bug netting hanging in your face if you're hammock ridgeline is longer than the traditional dimension for the hammock length.

I hope the pullouts help.

[SilvrSurfr]

I was looking at the Fronkey DIY instructions and he suggests you measure your hammock ridgeline, then add six inches for wiggle room. So, for an 11 ft. hammock, the ridgeline would be 109.56 inches (using the generally accepted 83% rule), and your bugnet should be six inches longer than the ridgeline.

I own two BIAS NanoBuginators and a Buginator bugnet. None of them sag in my face. Out of curiosity, I measured them and they seem to come in around 107 to 109 inches long. So while they're Fronkey-style bottom-entry bugnets, they seem to be shorter than the instructions Fronkey uses, which may be why there's no sagging of the bugnet in the face.

[Tendertoe]

Interesting that the BIAS dimensions are a bit shorter.

I bet it's the fact that the OP has a hammock ridgeline that is longer than the 83% rule like he mentioned which is exactly the problem I had with the netting hanging in my face with one of my hammocks.

Even if you follow Fronkey's instructions to a T, if your hammock and hammock ridgeline don't fit the 83% rule, the netting hangs in your face.

If you have a hammock ridgeline that is 83% of the hammock length, and you follow Fronkey's instructions, it works perfectly.

Once you stray from the 83% rule for your hammock ridgeline is when the bugnet starts hanging in your face.

[SouthernExposure]

I was also concerned with this same subject as I was recently making my Fronkey Bugnet. Instead of putting pullouts on it, I made a pushout for it.

I took a 16" long piece of thin fiberglass rod and epoxied a 1.5" piece of a large wooden tongue depressor to each end. Once cured, I applied an adhesive backed piece of Velcro (the 'hooked' part) to each of the faces of the tongue depressors. To mount it, simply center it between the ridgeline and the bug netting with the Velcro 'hooks' facing up and making contact with the netting. The 'hooks' grab the netting and hold it well away from your face and the weight of the net holds the whole shebang in place.