I started taking apart my Backcountry Bed 600 2 season bag that has 17 ounces of dri-down fill. First to be removed was the quilt portion of the bag.
Once I removed the quilt portion, I seam ripped that piece, so that I could shake all of the down into the bottom of that piece. It seems to have been successful, as I can see just a small portion of down left in the upper portions of the quilt.
While I was seam ripping the bag to get all the down into accessible locations, I had a realization. It looks to be quite simple to modify this bag, and save myself trouble in creating a piece of gear. Making the bottom of this bag into a top quilt will be quite simple. It already has a footbox, even having an access port so that I can slip my feet out of the bag if too hot.
I am still going to be able to cannibalize a good portion of the down. By rough estimation, I'm thinking that there will be 7 to 9 ounces left into the bag. I'm removing the entire hood and quilt portions. I'm going to be removing most of the back, just leaving a small portion of the bottom so that the footbox works properly.
There needs to be some more brainstorming with this piece of gear before I cut off too much. I need to see if this can be modified into an underquilt easily. Since there's a footbox access hole, this could function similar to a few of the underquilts being sold overseas. I'm going to add pictures soon, I just wanted to detail this project as it was fresh on my mind.
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Back of the bed with the quilt and pad holder removed.
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Quilt with filling shaked to bottom - All to be Cannibalized
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Filling at the Head 1 - All to be Cannibalized
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Filling at the Head 2 - All to be Cannibalized
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Back of Footbox - behind legs - overstuffed
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Side Filling
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Top Filling
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Way too tall, I'm 5'6" standing up with arm straight up
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The V of the opening reaches my upper chest
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View of Top Opening of Bed
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Approximate cut area
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Sewing continues to side baffle great to cut and hem above
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Back of footbox showing foot peek hole
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Approximate footbox size
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