What Determines Right / Left Lay in Dream Hammock?

[brohawk]

You will love love love your thunderbird. I have had one for a while now and look forward to anytime I get to hang in it!

That's what I keep hearing. I love the customizable options Papa Smurf let's you do. I don't know how him and mama find time to sleep. I will post pics when I get it. Order #1693

[amayumi]

i am still confused and i think i cant even explain why.


lets try.


first of all.
i dont know if i prefer a right or left lay.
i think it depends on the view, nearest friends, campfire location, etc.

looking the picture below, all i can decide is that i need my zippers openings in the same side of my feet, to get in and out easily.

hammock-zipper-spin2.jpg

but looking to above draw, it seems that i can maintain my feet in the same side of zippers both in right and left lay, just turning myself upside dow, providing i keep my head in the same side of hammock ridgeline.

so, if i can do a left or right lay in the above draw ( that has zipper for overcover) just moving myself, not the hammock, why do you guys say that i cant have this in a dream hammock?

Dream Hammocks have their left/right lay determined by the shape of the net/overcover. The tops are not diamond shaped, but rather parallelagram shaped.

You can try a left lay in your Dream Hammock, you just can't do it when the bugnet or topcover is on. THEY are what determine the symmetry, and only when they are on.

it seems confusing to me.

if i can do in the draw, why not on the real thing?

thanks for the clarification

[Singingcrowsings]

Brohawk, congrats on your new Thunderbird. You will love it!

i am still confused and i think i cant even explain why.


lets try.


first of all.
i dont know if i prefer a right or left lay.
i think it depends on the view, nearest friends, campfire location, etc.

looking the picture below, all i can decide is that i need my zippers openings in the same side of my feet, to get in and out easily.

hammock-zipper-spin2.jpg

but looking to above draw, it seems that i can maintain my feet in the same side of zippers both in right and left lay, just turning myself upside dow, providing i keep my head in the same side of hammock ridgeline.

so, if i can do a left or right lay in the above draw ( that has zipper for overcover) just moving myself, not the hammock, why do you guys say that i cant have this in a dream hammock?






it seems confusing to me.

if i can do in the draw, why not on the real thing?

thanks for the clarification

You can do either of those lays in a Dream Hammock, but if you look at the picture the angle of the body is going along the same line in both, despite the zipper being on the different sides. Some of us, like me, prefer to lay with our heads and feet on the other side of the hammock, which would make an X on the drawing you have there, putting our heads on the bottom and feet at the top of the drawing. That's one of the reasons I got a Freebird, I didn't know which I preferred and didn't know anyone with a hammock to try.

Some people don't have a preference in which way they lay, and are able to go with the view, others just feel uncomfortable one way or another and prefer to stay laying on one angle, left or right. And sometimes you don't know until that moment when you lean back in a hammock itself for the first time.

Hope that helps!

[Detman101]

I know one thing...
My skeeter beater pro didn't limit the direction I laid in it like my "supposedly better" WBBB does.

I think I may have been led astray by the hype on these forums...

[rustyshack11]

Didn't think there were left or right hand hammocks.

[ShellHammock]

what I find interesting is that the OP says they had an XLC which enables yu to zip off the net ('foot box' included) and can then experiment with the left lay... but apparently they never thought of doing that?

[Cookie74]

That pix from The Ultimate Hang really helped me see the situation. Thanks for postig it, Singingcrowsings! Now it seems to me that with a DD Asym I will be able to sleep on either my left or right side without trouble. The limitation is in the way I would face the world. So it would not be possible to face a great view if is at the top right. Have I got it??

[elk71]

I love this forum for all the info it has.

[mk2rocco]

This has got me thinking... If I want to switch the lay of my Thunderbird could I just have a different bugnet and overcover made?

[s20055]

This has got me thinking... If I want to switch the lay of my Thunderbird could I just have a different bugnet and overcover made?

Good question.