Hello All, grateful to be here and hopeful for all of your collective knowledge! Over the last several months I have been slowly saving my pence and building up my hammock set up. The most recent, and unfortunately heartbreaking purchase was probably the nicest piece of insulating equipment I’ve ever owned in the Hammock Gear incubator 0°. The quality and warming ability was (obviously, no surprise to anybody here) incredible and I fell in love immediately. A long day and a half or so later I was finally able to take it out to the woods and get to tinkering with it! Now here’s my issue: I am 6’1” and a dense 290 pounds- rather broad at the shoulders (not trying to talk up my sweet massive shoulders (they’re not) just trying to be descriptive!) and the underquilt, even when lying in line with the hammock BARELY covers 3/4 of the way up each shoulder, and when I get in to a proper diagonal lay there is no way for me to have both shoulders safe from un-insulated hammmock. Feet were for sure an issue as well but not the most prominent one here. I don’t really always sleep in one direction so there’s no good way to fudge it any more by adjusting opposite side tensioners either, I understand the hammock life involves plenty of fidget factor but this seems well out of those bounds as I believe a stiff belch could cause the UQ to slip off of me, and as I said: I literally can’t get all of me inside of it.
I feel incredibly defeated. I live in Alaska which as you can imagine is not the hammock hot spot of the world so unfortunately for you poor people this is pretty much my only resource it would seem. I have been saving and studying and researching for months and months and I haven’t found any quilts that are any wider than the standard 44” nor any that have all the same features that in my opinion makes the incubator so special. Now, I am aware of the Dutch/Jacks
zip on UQ, and I do have a WIDE chameleon, but I just cannot possibly wrap my head around how an UQ zips all the way on to a hammock that is 15 inches wider doesn’t end up ripping as soon as you sit in to it? It doesn’t make any sense to me and I don’t trust it (lol) not to mention I have seen just SO few reviews of it and that sketches me out too. I also honestly just much prefer the idea of a universal clip on UQ. gosh Hammock Gear just really killed it with their quilts, and as much as I understand, it breaks my little heart that they don’t take custom orders anymore, nor make anything for the big fella hangers out there. In any case, reading this back I see now that I’m being very dramatic and childish about all this but what can I say? I’m passionate and this was a big blow! So if anybody has any intel on either the zip on offering from Dutch, or ideally and mostly just where and how to get a much WIDER UQ I would be eternally grateful for the info. Thanks in advance, a sad sad man with a skinny fancy quilt.
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