Thanks! and i bet if you supersoak dry supersoak dry again with permethryn then most no-see-ums will leave it alone.
Thanks! and i bet if you supersoak dry supersoak dry again with permethryn then most no-see-ums will leave it alone.
Do you have photos of the Mantis setup? I have a Mantis, but I'm not finding it all that easy to use on a hammock. The size seems small and I'm finding that it doesn't have enough fabric to hand and create a good seal. I have it around my hammock (like your Hug) and it leaves a gap between the hammock walls and my chest. If I put it into the hammock, it tends to get tangled up. Perhaps I'm not applying it as well as I could be. How do you use it?
I'm thinking I need to make a HUG like you posted in another thread, that seems like it would work pretty well.
I think I have a photo, not sure on this forum though. The mantis was the genesis of thought behind the HUG because it had some of the ideas i liked, but it did have shortfalls. I didn't wrap the mantis around the hammock, only just around me. It works, but is a bit confining and difficult in comparison to the HUG. I would go for the HUG for sure.
Author and illustrator: The Ultimate Hang: An Illustrated Guide To Hammock Camping
would this type of net help protect your back from getting bit through the fabric of your hammock on warm nights when you don't need a pad?
Author and illustrator: The Ultimate Hang: An Illustrated Guide To Hammock Camping
I got bit thru my hammock but it was a ticked off Bassett Hound. Doubt DL would have helped!
.... the Aardvark (earth pig)... a rather unremarkable creature whose sole claim to fame is that it is the first animal listed in the dictionary.
Rob
I used to have an attached bug net on the Peace Pipe. I took a nap in it one day out in the woods, and ended up with about 20 gnat bites from one shoulder blade to the other. [edit--OK, so it was more like 5. But it FELT like 20!! ]
Since I NEVER hike in the woods topless, those gnats bit through SOMETHING: either T-shirt and hammock or just T-shirt.
Now, I only use a detachable net that surrounds the hammock completely so that the hammock floats in bug-free dreaminess! I'm just sayin'...
Last edited by Pipsissewa; 07-09-2011 at 14:16.
"Pips"
Mountains have a dreamy way
Of folding up a noisy day
In quiet covers, cool and gray.
---Leigh Buckner Hanes
Surely, God could have made a better way to sleep.
Surely, God never did.
Thank you so much for posting these directions. I wanted a bug net but i am very new to this and i didnt want to sew into my new hammock just yet ( its an eno doublenest) i bought a bug net from dicks. I am a very impatient person and am always willing to pay a little extra for now. hope this pic posts
As a wise man once said "If woman don't find you handsome at least they'll find you handy." Hang in there.
Will these dimensions you use work for my hammock which is 6 inches longer at 10ft? this is neat and i already have 2 box style bugnets to use.
Megan
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. [Albert Camus]
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