military hammock
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Silnylon campers are forever trying to figure out how to keep their sleeping pads under them at night. I hope it helps to explain some of my thoughts on the matter. Every day we get letters from customers, some of which are on our website. I cant tell you if its good otherwise because I cant use it.

They knew that if the hammock sagged too deeply, It would bend their back too much. The benefit of this invention to the user is that they now have a hammock which cannot change shape. If I had had one, I wouldnt have even thought of making my own. Some tell us that our design has allowed them to overcome their health problems and resume camping. The salesmen take all the ideas into a room, and chop up your design and change it. Also if the curve was too flat. The Mil version uses HEAVY rope for tying the hammock to those steel O rings. Second set of cords attached to the canopy on the top. Yes, I am still a pound over the competitors until you realize that I am also fully mosquito netted. I was hammockless for those years, but too busy with school to go camping anyway.

My first prototype was very close to the WW2 military jungle hammock, as close as I could remember it. If the hammock is always the same shape, then the user always has the same bed. At those jobs I learned that designers really dont control the end product. The canopy had small straps at the corners which can be used to tie it to the spreader sticks. That is not what I have invented. This year at Trail Days, I did approach two business owners about possible infringements. The whole unit formed a single piece of equipment that could be set up and stowed away rapidly. Such an approach can only result in both sides taking battle stations. He then had to stitch both ends of the netting closed to keep out the bugs. Mil has HEAVY DUTY steel O rings to tie ropes to, these are heavy as well.