I love the weight of my cuben hammock but it feels hard beneath me. I think it may be that it has absolutely no stretch or give to it. Usually a good thing but I think it may be harder than the ground. Has anyone else noticed this also?
I love the weight of my cuben hammock but it feels hard beneath me. I think it may be that it has absolutely no stretch or give to it. Usually a good thing but I think it may be harder than the ground. Has anyone else noticed this also?
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If you make one and send it to me, I will tell you what I think.
John
“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.” - Cormac McCarthy
Since I regularly sleep on a DAM for the extra comfort & it's not breathabl, I've thought about making a narrow cuben hammock. Just not in the budget right now
I too will something make and joy in it's making
Is it a gathered end asym? Or a bridge? Did you try shortening the ridge line (if any) or lengthening the end ropes?
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I would try putting a ridge-line on it about 8' long and suspending it. The ridge line shouldn't be a load bearing ridge-line, just enough to use as a measuring stick when hanging it. Then see how it feels. It took me some playing with my hammock to get the right feel because that thru-hiker 1.1 isn't very stretchy, and if that stuff took some time - I can imagine how cuben feels.
Mountainfitter's cuben hammock came to a bad end. Have you done something different on yours to try and avoid the same fate? I'd love to see a cuben hammock succeed over time.
I saw that thread by mountainfitter and I had already had some time in a cuben. It only takes one negative thread about a peice of gear and people can a bad concensus about it. I am going to try it until it drops me the same way. Actually it did but that is because the whoopie slipped off the gathered end. However I cured that and I am going to press it into service. Money is already spent and I don't need suffsacks.
I had a ridgeline but took it off along with the tie out because I wanted it as light as possible. I think I will add an adjustable dynaglide ridgeline and see if I can't work out the end to end tension.
Last edited by Dutch; 08-02-2010 at 15:52.
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