Hey....Shug here. We're gonna have a little hammock talk and uh I kind of feel guilty about
this because I've done a lot of hammock videos but one thing that it seems like I miss a good bit and
a lot of other people that do hammock videos is we always forget to show the hammock packed in
its stuff sack good I thought today what I would do is rectify the situation cleanse my soul and
show you all the hammocks that I have right now that I currently have in my Armada and let you
see them in their stuff sacks not going to do the suspensions because suspensions are personal
there's so many suspensions these days that just going to show you the hammocks in the stuff sack
I got a parcel of hammocks into stuff sacks here I heard you want to take a look at the size of the
stuff sacks with the hammock still in it not just hanging up between two trees like you always see
take a gander at my current hammock Armada more or less well actually it's not all of them because
I have stashed away some of my Superior gear deep winter hammocks and I'm not going to include those
because uh they're pretty much specialty they're pretty big I carry those in a poke I'm just
kind of looking at what I would call the three season hammocks right here I'm going to use just
a standard old Nalgene bottle that almost all of us have it's just kind of a size comparison to in
this unscientific experiment here we got the War Bonnet El Dorado single layer hammock 11 foot long
it's got removable bug net so you can use it with or without because
I'm going to just say roughly about 13 and a half inches 13 and three quarters
which is about the same 34 and a half to 35 millimeters with let's just say six inches
Eldorado weighs in one pound 5.8 ounces which is 21.83 ounces which is
619 grams this is actually one of my smallest hammocks and lightest the
superior gear Starlight ultra light hammock no wonder quilt built in we are looking at a
rough length of about 12 and a half inches which would be 31 and a half millimeters
but then it's about five inches or 13 millimeters this is a uh has a bug net
on it it is a double layer Starlight is a 10 foot hammock that is one pound 2.6 ounces
18.61 ounces
528 grams
The Ridge Runner is a double layer hammock and it has a bug net that's removable
or uh just keep it zipped on but the bug net is in there right now weighing with the bug
net Ridge Runner is let's say I'd say about 14 inches that's just roughly 35 and three quarter
millimeters thereabouts width-wise looking at maybe six and a half and that's about
roughly 16 millimeters maybe 16 and a half millimeters the weight with spreader bars is about
one thousand what is that 1092.5 grams that's about two pounds 6.6 ounces that's 38.55 ounces
let's look at it the dream hammock Raven 11 foot hammock has a unique
bug net design with a partial zipper and shock cord pulls around the head and feet
we're looking at a length of around in its stuff sack let's just say 14 inches which
is about 35 and a half to 36 millimeters and that looks roughly six and a half inches wide
it's a pretty light hammock it is one pound 5.8 ounces just 21.82 ounces
that is 617.5 grams here we go with the Dutch wear chameleon it
is one of the first iterations of it and this one is 13 and a half inches
which would be again I'm really learning my millimeters here 33 to 33 and a half millimeters
this one is about less than five inches wide this chameleon is a single layer bug net it
has a little um oh it's a little oh I forget what they call it it's a peak shelf but I have it at
the foot to hold some items so let's look at the weights let's go back to pounds and ounces here
this one is one pound 10.2 ounces comes out to 26.21 ounces 743 grams here we go with the
superior Gear 30 degree 10 foot hammock and that is um got a built-in under quilt 10 foot hammock
single layer actually kind of a double layer when you count in the built-in under quilt
this is crammed in there pretty good keep in mind there's an under quilt in here
about 16 inches which is uh you know 41 millimeters
oh let's get a fair thing I'd say six inches wide or so which is about 15 and a half 16 millimeters
and the superior Gear 30 degree 10 foot hammock built-in under quilt comes out
at two pounds 7.4 ounces which is 39 ounces which is one thousand 117 grams
this is a Dutch wear 11 foot hammock with a partial bug net it's got kind of a long skinny
double-ended stuff sack that he customized for me let me use this in a while but I have used it
many of times I just ended up not loving partial bug Nets here in Minnesota but the length on this
one with a long skinny stuff sack is about 17 and a half inches it's about 44 millimeters
it's quite thin I would say four and a half inches which is about 11 and a half millimeters
11 foot hammock single layer the Dutch wear partial bug net 11 foot hammock
at 14.1 ounces so there you go a little proof of that and then grams it is 400 grams so that
is a pretty pretty light hammock right there now this is a very different hammock it is a 90 degree
hammock meaning it doesn't hang head to foot it hangs kind of shoulder to shoulder it will go
into chair mode it is pad dependent it's really a different thing it is ultra light extra large
it's just their lightweight version and I like that about it it's looking to be
about 13 and a half inches that's about roughly 34.5 millimeters the width on it
is about six and a quarter it's about 16 millimeters this is the Fiola XL ultralight
pad now just including this it's a real good pad for this hammock but you can use your own pad in
here I have it's just that the baffles have to run head to foot not side to side I think
I forgot to put the Nalgene bottle in there but that's about the size comparison there
and the weight on the dramore ultralight XL two pounds 2.4 ounces which is 34 ounces which is
974.5 grams that's the hammock alone the fuel XL ultralight is one pound 13.1 ounces
that is 29.12 ounces which is 825 grams and this is probably the largest setup of all that I have
this is the Haven hammock tent so we have the hammock and the pad in there it's really unique
because um it hangs differently it is like a you know you hang head to foot between the trees it's
really good for setting up on the ground if you're going somewhere and you think you have to go to
ground and you want to also hang this is a really good option because it sets up on the ground easy
yeah I'm going to say that's about 18 and a half inches which is about
47 millimeters and we're looking at the width of these two together
for about nine inches which is about 23 millimeters
right so the overall weight with the pad and the Haven set up here with
the spreader bars in there because it does use spreader bars is five pounds 12 ounces
so that's 91.96 ounces and that comes out to 2607.5 grams
I'd like to take a moment here and I like to delve deep into squishability are you
with me on this you better be because it's happening okay let's take a look at what I
call the squishability factor so here's the War Bonnet El Dorado and you know you're
thinking about putting your pack you can smash it down this smashes down pretty well it's got
a little room and then you lay it back out you can see the stuff sack kind of expand
will definitely expand well that's kind of fun so here we got the superior Gear 30 degree 10 foot
you can squish that down in your pack squishability it's kind of like a little
concertina here is the War Bonnet Ridge Runner we'll pack down much smaller the dream hammock
Raven very squishable we went from that to that the Starlight by Superior gear it goes from here
to there dutchware chameleon squishable yes squishable and my drummer now it even has a
strap around the side to make it more squishable and we go from this link and we squish it down
like that so yes squishable the Dutch wear partial bug net in the long bag is it squishable
very squishable or fold in halfable The Haven not so much not a lot of squishability factor
there because you got your spreader bars inside I could squish the hammock
down a little bit but those spreader bars still stick out of course you could take
them out of there but the pad's not going to squish down very much so squishability Factor
not much I'm gonna level with you I don't think I've ever said squishability that much in my life
I'm not sure that I've ever said that word at all but you know when I get a hammock and I'm looking
at the sizes online because the problem is and and I'm guilty of this we very rarely show you
the hammock in the stuff sack so I often think about when I'm loading my pack how much space
is it going to take in the pack and will it squish down at all now you probably noticed
as we're doing this that a lot of The Hammocks are in what's called a double-ended stuff sack
meaning it opens on both ends so you can pull your hammocks out troop each end and have this
on one end or the other though the guys at um Superior gear hammock have an it's a stuff sack
that's just a one-ended single-ended stuff sack closed on the on the back with a little strap to
hold it so you can pull it open and you may have noticed while I was showing this there's a couple
of loops on here and you can have some mini [ __ ] you can take your stuff sack and hang it off your
Ridgeline so thus that becomes a little bit of a storage sack all secure in sector seven butter
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thank you
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obvious right
I feel horrible about it Mike
my guilt runs so deep
the world is my oyster and you are my Pearl