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RootedWanderers

RootedWanderers

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What's your favorite place to hammock.
This was this weekend with some friends.
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Spectre, Alabama. *Big Fish* movie set island.
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michiganoverland said:
I love my hammock (Eno Sleep System) and I take it with me everywhere. The problem I have is actually sleeping in it. I really need to save and get an underquilt rather than trying to get into a sleeping bag.
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I have a thermarest Argo blanket that I use when I am on my cot or sleeping in my hammock and love it.
 
I LOVE hammock life, I made the switch at the beginning of this year. After two trips sleeping in the hammock in overnight mid-30F temps, I was informed about under quilts, holy crap, makes all the difference! Now that the temps have warmed up I don't even need a sleeping bag most of the time
 
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I love hammock camping and got my wife into it earlier this year. The only trouble we have is finding suitable trees!

I need to make some portable stands so I can ditch the backup tent.

Finally got a top quilt last month (20* goose down) and cannot wait to try it out in a couple of days!
 
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Chili said:
I love hammock camping and got my wife into it earlier this year. The only trouble we have is finding suitable trees!

I need to make some portable stands so I can ditch the backup tent.

Finally got a top quilt last month (20* goose down) and cannot wait to try it out in a couple of days!
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Did you find a suitable solution to the stands? I was recently given a hammock (I wouldn't use it camping though) that I would love to set up in the spare bedroom. I would like to make it easily portable from room to room though, so I was thinking that some sort of DIY project would be my best bet. Maybe a Turtledog stand set up of some sort.
 
brianb2 said:
Turtle dog is one of the easiest to build and is well suited to using indoors. Here’s another one that has gotten a lot of great feedback. I’m planning to eventually make one of these also for use when I’m out with the Jeep and don’t have trees nearby. Good luck. https://www.hammockforums.net/forum...-very-quick-bipod-style-stand?highlight=stand


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I was not able to open the photos in the forum you linked me to. But looking at their build list and some of the comments, is it a pipe stand? Kinda looks like a goal post?
 
max.grun said:
But looking at their build list and some of the comments, is it a pipe stand?
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Yeah, think about the old A frame swing sets when we were kids. This uses either the top pole from a chain link fence or EMT and recreates that A frame. It uses fittings from tarps.com to make joining the pieces together easy. I like it because a few of the build photos I’ve seen show how to make it pack down fairly compact. Important to me because I drive a wrangler TJ 2 door. Space is tight, so I’m frugal about what comes with me.


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brianb2 said:
Yeah, think about the old A frame swing sets when we were kids. This uses either the top pole from a chain link fence or EMT and recreates that A frame. It uses fittings from tarps.com to make joining the pieces together easy. I like it because a few of the build photos I’ve seen show how to make it pack down fairly compact. Important to me because I drive a wrangler TJ 2 door. Space is tight, so I’m frugal about what comes with me.


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Makes sense to me. Probably light weight as well.
 
max.grun said:
Did you find a suitable solution to the stands? I was recently given a hammock (I wouldn't use it camping though) that I would love to set up in the spare bedroom. I would like to make it easily portable from room to room though, so I was thinking that some sort of DIY project would be my best bet. Maybe a Turtledog stand set up of some sort.
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@brianb2 covered it but I intended on building the Turtledog stands.. Just haven't done it yet.
 
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Found a new stand I’m going to give a try. This guy came up with a really elegant and simple design that can be replicated using a lot of different materials. I’ll probably make mine from either EMT or 2x2s. I’ve seen examples of it being built in bamboo, fence post, and more exotic stuff. Looks like a natural for use by a vehicle since only one side needs to be staked down, or attached to the vehicle in my case.




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