It's always interesting to here the 'rest' of the story.Originally Posted by outdooraddict
Try putting it in the dryer, on air only with a couple of tennis balls to re-fluff it.
It's always interesting to here the 'rest' of the story.
Try putting it in the dryer, on air only with a couple of tennis balls to re-fluff it.
I'll try to get a weight of mine for you if you need it either tonight or tomorrow (if I can remember). I have an older (I think) 0°F Incubator that I just got back from Hammock Gear because I had them do a 4oz overfill for me
I don't understand why so-called 'boutique producers' can't take the trouble to sew the baffle ends shut on quilts.
As an outsider to quilts, the whole business seems like 'never-neverland' fantasies of underfilled insulation to please gram-counters. Those understuffed products will work really well if you bring your clothes dryer camping, to fluff your quilt before bedtime. In real-life, damp conditions, I fear reality will rear its ugly head.
It may not have anything to do with the vendors if the down is clumped and had to be moved around due to it being ran through the washing machine.
I don't have near the nights in a hammock as some of the fine folks around here but in the few years I've been doing it, I've never had to do anything except let my down fluff back up after being compressed. Granted I only own 3 pcs of down equipment (40°F Phoenix, 20°F Burrow & 0°F w/ 4 oz overfill Incubator) but as I said, I've never needed to do anything but fluff them up after unpacking them.
I've used down sleeping bags since the 'early 70s' and washed them (but not in a home machine - usually in the bathtub) many times, always dried in a home dryer, and never had down shifting between baffles.
Good gear has the baffles filled to the design, and then sewn shut. With sleeping bags, it's a 'design feature' if the baffles allow shifting down from the bottom of the bag to the top. (I've always avoided those bags...).
The amount of overstuff will appear on the HG order - at least for orders back to March 2014, the first time I bought anything from HG. "Old timers" should be able to tell how much further back, if any, the system goes. In the future, you might want to ask the seller for a copy of the order.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there are two kinds of people, and all the others.
I've had it run through with tennis balls and all that good stuff before my trip last year. Was just ,urious on a weight since that would be a sure fire way of knowing.
temp rating should just be a matter of loft.
http://www.dream-hammock.com/DownLoftTemp.html
I am thinking it is ok, I have had it hung out since last years trip without really looking at it, I broke it out last night and the amount of loft it now has is a lot more than when I recieved it.
I am guessing that the previous owner must have washed it before sending it out (another member got his TQ and had the same issue), so it just took a while to come back to 100%.
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