Advice to keep warm in my hammock

[Simon1]

Hi everyone, can you please give me some advice in keeping warm in my hennessy hammock. I can't afford a snugpack underblanket at £75, and ive tried putting my thermorest under my sleeping bag, but i still felt the cold on my back!

Any serious suggestions in keeping warm???
Many thanks!

 

[Cobweb]

Grab an old sleeping bag and tie it onto the hammock like an underblanket, that's what i did, it's not pretty but it works

 

[Greg]

Try making an Ogripod!

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17722&highlight=ogripod

 

[Karl82]

what sleeping bad do you have becouse it can make a big difference i used my Sungpack artic with just a closed cell foam mat last weeked and i was sweating.i would start with a good sleepingbag then mat then underblanket.

 

[Simon1]

Hi I have a nanok -10

 

[Barn Owl]

Grab an old sleeping bag and tie it onto the hammock like an underblanket, that's what i did, it's not pretty but it works

Yep,that's what I did initially and any old bag will do.
I used a summer rated one and it works.

 

[PeterH]

If weight/space not an issue I have used a wool blanket over the mat then the doss bag. The blanket is bigger than the mat an wraps in the HH stopping you spending most of the night off it! A semi inflated mat like the alpkit airic works ok as well. I have a snugpak ub from when I ran a GB but I do sometimes end up with a cold air channel in the HH with it.

 

[Simon1]

I've got an old forces -0 sleeping bag, in OG, which has tabs at the end and some green bungees, I think, once the hammock is set up I maybe able to hang it under the hammock in a kinda underblanket way, so hopefully with a thermorest mat inside as well I should be toasty warm!!!!

 

[John Fenna]

In the past I have used - Reindeer skin, sheepskin, closed cell foam mat, underquilt, thermarest, spare sleeping bag and - in the jungle - nothing. All kept me comfortable.
At present I use a down filled airbed - pure ruddy luxury!
With your type of sleeping bag and a thermarest I would have expected you to be fine...are you sure it is not the sides of the hammock crushing the sleepingbags insulation?

 

[Simon1]

Hi John, I am not to sure tbh, but i'll give it a go, I enjoy the hammock so much better than the tent, but as Iam out in the woods next week, I want to be warm, as last time I used it, I had a cold spot on my back, that was not very comfy!!!!!

 

[Highbinder]

Two on the bottom is worth one on the top. If you're using a ccf pad you shouldn't really feel the cold through it but will on the shoulders and calves, right? If you are feeling it on the back double up the pads - I find my bum gets colder than my back so if it's the same for you double up that area with an extra pad or as a sitpad. Depending on how cold or hot you sleep I'd set up with a ccf pad between the layers of the hammock, as well as a rigged bag as an UQ as previously suggested, and even a seperate cut pad inside your sleeping bag for your calves and feet (essential in the winter anyways IMO)

 

[PeterH]

... I'd set up with a ccf pad between the layers of the hammock, as well as a rigged bag as an UQ as previously suggested, and even a seperate cut pad inside your sleeping bag for your calves and feet (essential in the winter anyways IMO)

I think the OP said he had a Hennessy, depending which one they are quite wide, certainly wider that the average mat and I used to find myself off it ... or rather the mat up the side of the hammock doing naff all good !!

 

[Highbinder]

I think the OP said he had a Hennessy, depending which one they are quite wide, certainly wider that the average mat and I used to find myself off it ... or rather the mat up the side of the hammock doing naff all good !!

Very much so. I'd say use both a bag as an UQ and a matt to be on the safe side - I don't know how easy it would be to rig a sleeping bag to get a nice tight seal up against the hammock.

I've tried using two pads in a cross shape, so my shoulders would be covered, but it's akward to arrange and shifts through the night. I ended up taping them together.

 

[Simon1]

Thanks for all the advice, I have managed to rig up a Highlander -0 sleeping bag as a UQ and will have my thermorest in my Nanok -10 inside the hammock, I'll give this a go and see how I get on!!!! Pics later this week!!!! lol
Have a good week everyone!!!