hammocks.

[Soloman]

Cheers for advice will need it this weekend.
Soloman.

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Nightwalker,

Cut the squash ball in half, make a small cut in the ball and slide the half onto the webbing, with the inside of the ball facing away from the hammock, obviously repeat for all hammock lines.

Brian

Good tip.

Nick

 

[Chris G]

Good tip but still going to suffer from wicking when the lines are saturated IMHO.

 

[Brian]

Chris,
Never had a problem with it even during torrential jungle down poors mate, only way to know is to try

Brian

 

[Chris G]

Spose I need to get a hammock then!

(coat on (again) and heading for the door!)

Chris

 

[Matt Weir]

I know one tip when it comes to hammock tapes and that is...

Never hang/rest your axe on them overnight as when you check them in the morning you will find that they may well have almost worn through and you are left wondering how about a length of 2" with just 10% of it remaining managed to not snap and dump a 17 stone bloke head first to the ground

 

[Nightwalker]

Im pretty sure the two DD Hammocks I have seen would both suffer from the webbing wicking the water down even with that squash ball trick, you must just be lucky with your type of webbing, good trick for certain webbing-types though.

 

[Brom]

Ive only really gone out with mine when there has been a bit of a risk of rain but if I was you id use a goretex bivvie bag than you dont have any further problems

 

[Ogri the trog]

Ive only really gone out with mine when there has been a bit of a risk of rain but if I was you id use a goretex bivvie bag than you dont have any further problems

Methinks you are being a little defeatist there Brom,
Try any combination of the methods shown above and avoid the dreadful dance of trying to get into two bags whilst in a hammock. A welded steel ring or a karabiner at each end will solve all rain wicking problems.

And welcome to the forum by the way

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[Nightwalker]

Ive only really gone out with mine when there has been a bit of a risk of rain but if I was you id use a goretex bivvie bag than you dont have any further problems

Tis funny you should say that actually, I've tried and tested that method; one rainny night at the Bushmoot, my friend and I returned to our hammocks which were under the same tarp, his webbing (standard-DD stuff) looked the same as mine but was ever so slightly different in thickness, his had soaked down the water faster and his hammock was wet, mine was not, with him moaning suffciently I offered to swap hammocks, let him use my dry one and I'd kip it the wet one because I had a gortex bivvy-bag and he didnt. I can safely say its not really comfortable, so I wouldn't call it a solution to the problem.

Methinks you are being a little defeatist there Brom,
Try any combination of the methods shown above and avoid the dreadful dance of trying to get into two bags whilst in a hammock. A welded steel ring or a karabiner at each end will solve all rain wicking problems.

And welcome to the forum by the way

ATB

Ogri the trog

I'd second that!

Welcome to the community Brom.