Horse camping?

[Firetruck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0nCnS-UJLs

[icyhorse]

How do you get it to stand still?

love your illustration, would you mind me using it as a signature?

[x PREACHER x]

I was wondering how strong the suspension must be to hold a horse!!! Never knew they liked hammocks...

Makes sense.
Netted "hammocks" were used by early europeans to suspend horses to be able to transport them on ships so they wouldn't break there legs during rough waters.
Sailors thought they looked comfy, tried it, and we had hammocks on ships for the sailors ever since!


Or something like that.

[muckypops]

love your illustration, would you mind me using it as a signature?

Lol no problem at all glad u like it.

[Flint]

I think it would definitely work. You could even use part of the trailer as a suspension point for the hammock, only requiring you to find and park close to one tree. I've hung my hammock up inside a (clean) livestock trailer before. If your horses are on tied outside the trailer, that's a possibility.

[lijn]

I absolutely love the idea!

[Ottermark]

I’m new to the forum, but hammock camping with my horse is my jam. I’m in MN and our state forests allow dispersed camping. I’ve only done one nighters so far because I’m not always confident we’ll find someplace with trees for me and grazing for him, and I don’t carry hay. All my gear fits in my saddle bags and I hobble my horse at night. I ride alone and mostly on deer trails - not hiking or horse trails - we go until we find a nice spot, and then we stop. And in the morning, we go back. Love, love, love doing this! It’s really spoiled me, I don’t do well anymore with actual horse trails and campgrounds.

[OlTrailDog]

I had the good fortune to spend decades "horse camping" in the Bog Marshes Wilderness, Scapegoat, Great Bear, Absaroka-Beartooth, and Teton Wilderness. Actually it was work with the nightly accommodations being a camp or back country cabin. A lot of good memories. All of it pre-hammock days. I'm retired, but bike camping and back packing are very enjoyable too and I've come to enjoy a good hammock.
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Teton Wilderness crossing the Yellowstone River at Hawks Rest
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Absaroka-Beartooths looking down into Yellowstone's Lamar Valley with Mt. Washburn country in the background.

[jeff-oh]

I’m new to the forum, but hammock camping with my horse is my jam. I’m in MN and our state forests allow dispersed camping. I’ve only done one nighters so far because I’m not always confident we’ll find someplace with trees for me and grazing for him, and I don’t carry hay. All my gear fits in my saddle bags and I hobble my horse at night. I ride alone and mostly on deer trails - not hiking or horse trails - we go until we find a nice spot, and then we stop. And in the morning, we go back. Love, love, love doing this! It’s really spoiled me, I don’t do well anymore with actual horse trails and campgrounds.

I't another 15lbs and bulk, but would a tensa stand work for you?

[oldgringo]

I camp on an ATV. Other than ice, beer, and meat, I don't see much difference. Oh yeah, no road apples.