Comments on: Choosing A Tarp for a Hammock

By: carole

carole — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:04:12 +0000

Merci c’est très pertinent j’aime ces informations et utiliser ce qui me convient.
Carole

By: unpleasanttruth

unpleasanttruth — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 03:21:13 +0000

No Derek, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with your character. There’s no reason to change it other than to capitulate to woke political correctness. People like Darren would call snow racist for being white, and are the reason why camping has been declared a racist activity for white supremacists – Yes really: https://1n.pm/f5R3R

By: Derek Hansen

Derek Hansen — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:20:55 +0000

In reply to Darren. Darren, thank you for your feedback. I am very appreciative of any feedback about my illustrations, but I hope none have crossed the line as being inappropriate or even racist. That character is actually an avatar for a popular contributor on HammockForums.net when this illustration was created. It was done as an homage and "wink" to those whom I've learned a great deal. I suppose that when that drawing was done it was well-known who that was referring to, but with how broad my reach has become, you're probably right that I should remove it. There was no disrespect meant.

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:13:25 +0000

It’s a fabulous article that helped me immensely, but I gotta mention… You should replace your racist caricatures in the illustrations. A skull on a pike, too!? Good grief, is this 1952?

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:16:03 +0000

I enjoyed this article and have bought your book, which is fun to read and study. You have all of these little one liners but sometimes I cannot tell what will happen in practice. For example you show a pitch here of a rectangular tarp on the diagonal and how to sleep in the hammock. In your book you mention a similar pitch of a rectangular tarp pitched on center but with the ends closed off. Then pulled out asymmetrically. It looks to me like you can make a little cocoon depending how much you pull the sides out, though it becomes difficult to enter the hammock.

So my question is: would you recommend a hammock with doors or a rectangular hammock. Pretty much the same cost and weight.

Thanks.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:24:31 +0000

What size of fabric would you use for a hammock if you were intending to use an MLD cuben rain poncho (4.3′ x 9′) as a tarp?

By: Alicia Byrne

Alicia Byrne — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 04:25:31 +0000

Thank you for such a detailed yet easy-to-understand explanation of setting up a hammock camping with tarps. I think you made a great point that setting up the tarp first helps us keep ourselves dry under adverse weather conditions. My husband and my kids love camping and we’ll definitely benefit from your tarp-using trick!

By: bob

bob — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:31:25 +0000

In reply to Dave B. I'm trying this with my new Brazilian woven cotton hammock( bed size 98.5" x 59") on top & my old older less wide cloth hammock underneath with a 7-1/2 foot long piece of 24" wide Reflectix sandwiched between. It will only drop to the mid 50'sF but quite a change from 81F last night. If the 2 part system works an old sleeping bag could sandwiched there for colder temps. thanks for the 2 part suggestion as trying to keep a pad underneath me is a struggle.