OK, my son and I tried our first night last night in our hammocks...on our back porch. After 2 hours of sleep we came back in the house. (We promised each other that if one was heading back inside they had to wake the other to let them know.) It was me. My shoulders and butt got cold...and I had to pee, and knew that once I got up, that I wouldn't be able to bring myself to come back outside to the hammock. He was actually warm and doing ok.
First off; we live in town and have very limited yard space due to the pool. So the porch is the only option.
Secondly; hanging vertically from rafters off the porch is a much different hang than horizontally across trees at my parent's house. That in itself presented a problem that we just had to deal with as best as possible.
3rd...I don't know that there is technically a "head end" or a "foot end" of a hammock, but once we switched opposite directions than what I intended us to hang, it laid better....which left us staring into the back of the house and all the clutter that needs cleaned up, rather than out the back yard. This happened to be the shorter height of the porch even though I thought I had things hung as correctly as we could. When we switched ends we didn't have as much pull on our shoulders.
4th My PLUQ kept slipping down below my shoulders and I'll obviously need to fix something there to keep it where I need it. I don't know why my butt got so cold, when my legs and lower back were fine. I have fibromyalgia and arthritis so when the cold sat in, my muscles just "jelled" and I couldn't fiddle fart with the under quilt any longer. I'm glad we weren't in the woods, but I want to get the practices down right so we can get out into the woods. Any suggestions or help? Hopefully I've done the below pictures correctly.
http://s715.photobucket.com/albums/w...%20Hammocking/
Note: I did not hang anything on the same rafters, not even the foot or head end. The strap you are seeing is mule tape. Nothing grand here and all DIY except the actual hammocks. My hammock is in front with the pink ridge line and pink bag....had to add some kind of femininity to it.
I'm thinking that I will just have to save up for a couple of actual good quality whoopie adjustable structural ridge lines so that we have our correct hang no matter what we're hanging from once we get it "dialed in" so to speak; and keeping it "female friendly" so that I don't get too discourage while trying to give my 13 year old this experience.
I'm really trying here gang; so suggestions are much appreciated.
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