*r*n*t*ng from a hammock

[Elines]

Has anyone got a cunning plan to enable a man to urinate whilst still in the hammock - when you get to a certain age nightly trips can sometimes become more than just once a night. It is a real bind to get out of the hammock, have a pee and then get back in again.

May be we need some kind of male she wee (witha long rubber tube)?

 

[NatG]

wide mouthed nalgene bottle- special coloured lid, you don't want to wake up in the morning andtake a swig.

i've seen people use 500ml water bottles, but they must have pretty good aim

 

[Barney]

Gunner White solved the problem in 1943. He also provided a not so ingenious, but very hilarious, solution for the mosquito problem.

Rommel? Gunner who? BY Spike Milligan (RIP)

 

[alpha_centaur]

Has anyone got a cunning plan to enable a man to urinate whilst still in the hammock - when you get to a certain age nightly trips can sometimes become more than just once a night. It is a real bind to get out of the hammock, have a pee and then get back in again.

May be we need some kind of male she wee (witha long rubber tube)?

That would be called a catheter

:sulkoff: I'll get my coat

 

[Elines]

That would be called a catheter

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And that would be an 'Ouch'

 

[inthewids]

Turn on your side and aim

 

[Shewie]

A zip on the underside of the hammock should do it, just remember where you left your boots though.

 

[BigShot]

The tube idea isn't so daft.

There was a thread about an English Channel crossing on the Song of the Paddle forum where they discussed peeing mid way across.

There's a kind of external catheter, sounds something like a condom with a tube on the end. Whether you'd use it to just go over the side (err, no) or get a good aim into a bottle I dunno.

Could be worth looking into though.

 

[helixpteron]

Use a hot water bottle {empty} which then may be used as a hot {passed} water bottle!
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I was joking! (o:
It would work though!

 

[BigShot]

I've heard of that before helix.
Not a completely mad idea that's for sure.

 

[helixpteron]

Being that its a hammock, be aware of wind direction and speed as you may find that you're p!$$!ng in the wind {literally!} and that its not raindrops that keep falling on your head!.....

 

[Shewie]

Being that its a hammock, be aware of wind direction and speed as you may find that you're p!$$!ng in the wind {literally!} and that its not raindrops that keep falling on your head!.....

Only with a poorly pitched tarp :umbrella:

 

[Eric_Methven]

Seriously, I'm 58 years old and need to pee a couple of times a night if I've had a fair bit to drink. The answer is a Nalgene bottle with a wide mouth. Roll onto your side, remove the lid, pop your todger into the bottle with the bottle at 45 deg and let it flow. When finished, immediately replace the nalgene lid. Either remove it from your sleeping bag or cuddle the bottle as it gets quite warm with fresh pee. If you think you may need again before morning, empty the bottle over the side in an area clear of kit.

On no account attempt to lean over the side of the hammock and pee that way. Eventually, one of these days you will suffer from roll back. That's where you are at a point of balance on the edge of the hammock, feel like you may fall out, overcompensate and roll back into the hammock onto your back. If you do that mid flow, it gets messy as hell.

A wide mouthed nalgene bottle is the answer.

Eric

 

[Ex Member - Sidney Bounty]

And if ya need a drink you can alway pull a Bear....

 

[helixpteron]

Seriously, I'm 58 years old and need to pee a couple of times a night if I've had a fair bit to drink. The answer is a Nalgene bottle with a wide mouth. Roll onto your side, remove the lid, pop your todger into the bottle with the bottle at 45 deg and let it flow. When finished, immediately replace the nalgene lid. Either remove it from your sleeping bag or cuddle the bottle as it gets quite warm with fresh pee. If you think you may need again before morning, empty the bottle over the side in an area clear of kit.

On no account attempt to lean over the side of the hammock and pee that way. Eventually, one of these days you will suffer from roll back. That's where you are at a point of balance on the edge of the hammock, feel like you may fall out, overcompensate and roll back into the hammock onto your back. If you do that mid flow, it gets messy as hell.

A wide mouthed nalgene bottle is the answer.

Eric

Someone's going to ask for photo's! (o:

 

[JohnC]

The tube idea isn't so daft.

There was a thread about an English Channel crossing on the Song of the Paddle forum where they discussed peeing mid way across.

There's a kind of external catheter, sounds something like a condom with a tube on the end. Whether you'd use it to just go over the side (err, no) or get a good aim into a bottle I dunno.

Could be worth looking into though.

That would be a Texas Catheter, as a nurse we regularly used them for patients who needed something, but not an "indwelling" catheter..
A friend in the navy used one at a mess dinner to avoid distress till the toasts were out the way. When discovered, he got fined the drinks bill....

 

[Mastino]

Avoid alcohol and keep warm. In cold conditions your body will produce more urine... the same goes with alcohol.

 

[tyfy]

As an addition to the suggestion about a coloured lid on the Nalgene bottle.

I remember someone suggesting putting a rubber band round the bottle so you could tell the pee bottle from a similar drinking bottle in the dark.

Richard

 

[John Fenna]

My nalgene is covered on Hazzard tape!
Easy to tell from any other even in poor light - and it is the only one that goes in the hammock at night so there is no prob telling which is which in pitch darkness.
Also I have given up using Nalgenes for drinking bottles

 

[BigShot]

That would be a Texas Catheter, as a nurse we regularly used them for patients who needed something, but not an "indwelling" catheter..
A friend in the navy used one at a mess dinner to avoid distress till the toasts were out the way. When discovered, he got fined the drinks bill....

That's one thing I heard it called - there might be another name too.
Have you any idea if they'd be "fit for purpose" for the original poster and, I don't think I can put this delicately, is there an easy way for him to figure out what size he needs?

Haha - the things we discuss on this board - madness.