Bristish Army Gortex Bivvy Bivy Bivi Bivvi bag draw string question.

[Wild Planet Tramp]

Hi folks

My brand new bivvy bag just arrived today, so as a brand spanker everything was great but ive discovered after jumping in it that the draw string only pulls about 6 inches out thus still leaving a gaping opening for the cold and rain to get in. I kind of expected the cord to reduce the hole to say face size at least, so I just wondered if this was normal or should it reduce the opening further. Im sure there are plenty of folk out there that have experience in using these bags, so any advice please!

aidy

 

[am5566]

Hello,

I found the string was stiff in my army bivvy bag when new and would hardly close, after a lot of use mine slackened off and closes no problem. It was just the newness for me. I found holding cord and bag material at the opening then sliding the material further up (with out the string moving) then pull the string again and repeat until the bag closes used to work for me.

 

[Inky]

As am said, you need to pull the cord, work the material back a bit and carry on.

 

[copper_head]

Yeah it should cinch up to less-than-face size.

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[Ed Edwards]

Hi

I had the same issue. As an aside, the YouTube video below shows an interesting way of staking it out. You need to be a small build for it to really work, but a good idea none the less.

http://youtu.be/W3MHFSUh6OE

Ed

 

[copper_head]

Hi

I had the same issue. As an aside, the YouTube video below shows an interesting way of staking it out. You need to be a small build for it to really work, but a good idea none the less.

http://youtu.be/W3MHFSUh6OE

Ed

Enjoyed the vid, thanks Ed. Gonna give it a go with mine.

 

[Wild Planet Tramp]

ok guys thanks, i knew it wasn't right, il have another play with it. Just don't wanna end up ripping anything by forcing the cord, maybe a piece of para cord would work better, anyone tried that?

 

[Wild Planet Tramp]

By the way, great video Ed, some good ideas there to try out.

 

[sapper326]

I've used this method for many things, i recently had a leaky shed roof and only had a plain builders tarp to use, paracord some loose stones in the garden, works well short term. If left in position it'll wear and damage the fabric.