are these $25 hammocks from Amazon any good?? my name is Matt thank you guys for
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something I get asked about quite a bit obviously I love my hammocks I do get
asked quite a bit of hammock questions but a lot of people ask me about budget
hammock auctions I see a lot of people suggest online on forums all the time
these ridiculously cheap you know style hammocks so I picked this one up off
Amazon for 25 bucks and yeah we're gonna take a look and see this may be
something I could look at for using on a trip the weight on this thing 319 grams
or 11 and a quarter ounce it's a 9 foot hammock or an 8 and a half foot hammock
compared to my 11 so you'll see like a size difference with this starting up
compared to the warrior this does not have a Ridgeline on it so as you can see
on the warrior hammock here I've got the ridgeline up above me that keeps the bug
net suspended off me and whatnot and keeps me in that correctly but yeah
let's get this thing strung up in the tree we'll take a look comes built into
its own stuff sack so when you open it up the stuff sack actually becomes a
pouch on the other side and one thing I noticed on them that I don't like but I
kept in because this is how it shows up it doesn't have any kind of an seal
continuous loop it's literally this like I mean it's not like the the cheapest
piece of webbing here but I will eventually replace that with some AM
steel continuous loops but let's pop this thing up in the tree
let's pick the shoes off let's see now I am a right lay type person so my feet go
to the right side shoulder goes to the left
you get relatively flat one thing to point out right now that I feel is this
where this stitching is between the two tones or you've got the grade of the
blue this triple stitch seen here I can feel it up into my back behind my
shoulder like and it's it gets I find it like gets more uncomfortable the more
day I can only go it puts it more into my spine I don't know if that's just
like an anatomy of my body thing but I do not find that comfortable can I have
two
yeah to avoid that I have to get my back this is a little bit hammock and it's
pulling my knees up I can feel my knees are hyperextending and I can feel it on
my heels here too you see have to get myself into the blue portion of the
hammock and there's no way that I can get flat that way maybe a sleeping pad
is gonna be the way that this works I have my under cooled out here and I I
totally had plans and put my undercoat onto this thing but with this Ridge here
it there's no way it's just ridiculously uncomfortable I'm not even gonna bother
trying it there's no way I would even try sleeping at night in this just
feeling that seam underneath me because it's like it's pick the fabric is you
can tell it's rolled over twice so it's like the it's like four layers of fabric
pretty thick thread and it's like it's very rigid or the body material has some
stretch to it where it's it's folded over like four times here on this this
seam it is super rigid and it has no stretch so like the the blue part under
my back stretches and then you hit this like really hard seam that has no
stretch and that is ridiculously uncomfortable I don't know if they if
all the you know hammocks are like that but this is not gonna work but like I
said we're gonna get a couple sticking pads we're gonna try this out with a pad
see if that helps first we're gonna do the old blue closed-cell foam this is
since actually the dog's bed it's just wanted Remy's bed and if you guys are
aware but I'm not a big fan of pad I think in this case it's got to be done
help
I definitely eliminates it I don't feel it anymore and get more flat if somebody
was looking into getting into hammock camping this would definitely be an
option I mean if you have one of these closed cell foam pads you had the ridge
rest or the Z light pads and the Z rest pads or whatever they're called the
accordion one of the roll out ones and when these blue foam pads will
definitely work and CY air pad wouldn't work in here but let's check that out to
therm-a-rest evil light let's see how this goes you want to kick your pad onto
the diagonal you're gonna lay on that way when you climb in you're not having
to shift the pad as much underneath you I mean you do still end up having to
shift the pad but it just makes it a little less finicky you also want to
make sure your pad is like fairly part something definitely eliminates any of
the ridges it's not the most uncomfortable thing I've ever laid
honestly like it's just I well I don't like about using a pad inside of hammock
it's bitch break here this piece here because it pulls this fabric up tight
close to you which I like about the hammock is it hugs you but I find even
with a top quilt what it does is this compresses and I get cold on my arms
with a hundred fold this just like the down wraps up around you this way so you
don't get that cold spot that's just that's the one thing that I don't like
the pad I can't say I'm like the most overly impressed with with the cheap
hammock I don't know I mean it's I can get relatively flat in this thing I
think I could get comfortable it's this team here that I'm just an odd I like I
said this is the only ever parachute style hand I could ever really tried out
so I don't know I don't know if the Eno brand is better I don't know if any of
the other cheaper ones on Amazon will be any better I don't know this would be a
great introductory way to get into a mcafee I mean I think I think if you
pick this up if you experience what I'm experiencing this right now you'd be
pretty disappointed with Hanna camping and you may not want it
you try it but I don't really know what else to say you are somebody that uses
one of these eight and a half to nine foot hammocks the parachute style and it
works out for you you've got any tips and tricks or somebody any tips for me I
need anything that I am missing out here that I'm not doing that might make this
more comfortable drop in the comment section for me down below you know could
help me ou could help anybody else out as well but yeah that's that's all Akana
this one today guys as always hi I'm Maddie
thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys on the next one