Comments on: Geaux Hammock Review

By: Kenny Williams

Kenny Williams — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:55:21 +0000

Kenny here from the University of Arkansas… We rented our whole fleet out last weekend and I spent 3 nights in a Geaux over Fall break and slept wonderfully. Great product!

By: Jerry Sambrook

Jerry Sambrook — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:06:31 +0000

Hey Derek. The first thing I commented to Clark was how comfortable the material is against the bare skin on legs and arms. Thanks for the good review

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:44:47 +0000

In reply to Kyle Baker. This is great! Thanks for sharing.

By: Kyle Baker

Kyle Baker — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:43:07 +0000

Nice review Derek. On the topic of fabric and vendor testing, you’re right in that there is little insight or uniformity with how “weight rating” is determined and published. We’re working on changing that with a standardized static load test procedure for all our specialty hammock fabrics. I’m the owner of RBTR, which produces HyperD, ROBIC, and others.

We’ve already done it for the 1.6 polyester box ripstop being used for printed hammocks with OutdoorINK and plan to compile results very soon for the others. In addition to weight rating, we also log stretch and sag. Here’s a link to the results for the 1.6 poly box ripstop – https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0261/6507/files/Static_Load_Test_-_1.6_oz_poly_box_ripstop.pdf?16623268535765229974.

The hope is to make a standardized test that we put all hammock fabrics through and share that data with both the DIYer and Vendors using the materials. Would welcome your comments and feedback.