I herd that you get a flatter lay with less shoulder squeeze in a asymmetrical hammock vs a symmetrical hammock, is this true? I have only owned symmetrical hammocks. If this is true I may need to add a asymmetrical hammock to my collection.
I herd that you get a flatter lay with less shoulder squeeze in a asymmetrical hammock vs a symmetrical hammock, is this true? I have only owned symmetrical hammocks. If this is true I may need to add a asymmetrical hammock to my collection.
It's not the hammock that's cut "asymetrical". It's only the bug net. With most asym hammocks, the bug net is cut like a parallelogram, so that it won't pull up the hammock fabric where your head and feet are. There should be no difference in the lay between an asymetrical and a symetrical hammock with all other things equal.
So would a knotty mod be the equivalent of getting an asym lay/hammock w/o having a bug net??Originally Posted by hutzelbein
No, a Knotty mod actually does the opposite of what an asym bug net does. While the bug net tries to give you the most space at the head and feet, a Knotty mod cinches up the fabric the and takes space away. People usually get a Knotty mod because they are bothered by floppy fabric, or because they want a kind of pocket that keeps stuff in the hammock. It works well for these puposes. But you basically lose width. You can still push your feet to the edge, but there's pressure. I don't like that. In a wide hammock you might not have that problem, but then stuff doesn't fall out of a wide hammock easily anyway. Which is why don't have any Knotty mods anymore.
The reason an asym will usually offer a wider/flatter lay is due to the width of a piece of noseeum mesh. An asym net is using a straight piece of mesh that is cut into a hexagon and is limited by the standard 54" width of noseeum. OTOH, take that same three yard piece of mesh and turn it catty-corner so that your head and feet are effectively laying at the hypotenuse of the material which, as you can see in the below illustration, offers a wider netting which allows the hammock to spread out and prevents the net from pulling up on the hammock fabric.
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Nice illustration, HoosierT
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So if I'm not too clueless, aren't there hammocks that are cut as parallelograms? When gathered, knotted and hung, they create a natural flat lay, that isn't perpendicular to the hang. What are these called? Is there information about them?
Seems everything I search for only winds finding under-quilts, bug-nets and rain-flys. Thanks
Afaik there are no commercial hammocks that are cut as a parallelogram. It doesn't make too much of a difference but wastes a lot of fabric. Here is a fairly long thread about it: Parallelogram Hammock.
I may be completely wrong, but my XLC without the bug-net attached still feels VERY different compared to my regular Dutch 11' gathered end style hammock that is not an asym hammock. Maybe it's just me?
Different fabric, whipping method and width. Still a rectangle.
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