I want to talk to you I want to talk to you about storage in a hammock not where
you store your hammock but where you store your stuff when you're laying in
your hammock. Hey Shug I don't know where to put my stuff now I'm used to
a tent I just lay it all in there cuz I got a floor and everything but where do
I put my stuff in my hammock the Warbonnet was one of the first hammocks to
have this wonderful shelf right here it is a great place to put stuff throw your
headlamp down there you know you're laying there at night you've got this
big area right here where you can just keep throwing stuff and it will just
really catch an amazing amount of stuff so we're gonna take a little look at the
shelf on the war bonnet and we're gonna cover ridgelines
a lot of hammocks don't have ridge lines and a ridge line is a great place to
hang your stuff you can put a mesh organizer on there there is kind of a
plethora of hammock storage options I don't know them all I'll show you what I
got you can take a look I will list in the description box below this video
look there so there will be a list of vendors that sell mesh storage bags and
I find that to be the handiest thing is to just have that up there and put all
your little items at night you lip-balm your your glasses your your camera you
know an extra pair of socks you know whatever it is that you're gonna put up
in there hammock storage not where you're going to store it but where are
you gonna store stuff when you're in it all right so now we're taking a little
different look at the Shelf here I've got it staked out to a log out here if I
just lift the shelf dangle you can see it'll just hang down beside the hammock
you can see the hammock body and the way the Shelf kind of hangs out so one of
the best places to just hang your gear or your jacket or something is just put
it right up there on your hammock Ridgeline now a lot of less expensive
hammocks don't come with a Ridgeline and you don't really need one but in a
nutshell what it does is it sets the sag of your hammock alright so my hammocks
not stretched out straight but the greatest thing is you can use it to
throw your damp socks up there at night hang your jackets off of
my headlamp off of mine like at night when I'm sleeping when I'm not using it
there's always up on my Ridgeline but my headlamp will always just be hanging
right up there so one of the handiest things to use to hang off your Ridgeline
in a hammock is to use a mesh ridgeline organizer now I made this on myself it's
just made out of mosquito netting I got a piece of velcro that I sewed into this
flap like that so I'll lay that on my ridgeline and just velcro it down cuz I
always have my foot in in my hammock higher so you can see my ridgeline some
kind of an angle so it'll start to slide down and often I don't have it in here
but I'll have like a little piece of shock cord just wrapped around there
with a prusik knot that will hold my my ridgeline organizer and what I did on
the ends is I have them kind of open like that it's sort of sewn up about
maybe about three inches there just so things don't fall out but it kind of
have this opening and I'm all comfortable sleeping and my ridgeline
organizer might be right there so heaven forbid I got to really sit up very far
and I'm thinking uh I want my lip balm let me actually put my lip balm in there
I have something in my pocket alright so my lip balm is one of those
things they'll actually hike out of the woods to go get that'll be sitting up in
there and what I'm gonna do is just reach in there and go through that
little side hole to get it and it saves me having to sit up and do a setup
that's how lazy I am that is why I am the lord of lollygag but this is the one
I use the most because it's always smiling and it just makes me happy to
look up and see my smiling Ridgeline mass your organizer look at that beam go
on beam say hi to everybody that's being my daughter's dog so next we're gonna
look at the hammock gear ridgeline organizer the one I got here is made of
Dyneema you can get it made out of ripstop or really cool you can get camo
Dyneema weighs under an ounce it has a big pocket in the floor
PABs hang down hang up well hang off whatever you wanted there maybe your
clock or your watch or something like that a little closer look that is by
hammock gear you see you got the stretch pocket right here pair of socks I got in
there a cell phone sitting right there oh let's just say it's wintertime and
you want some some hand warmers got those popped in there so you got kind of
a pleated expandable pocket right there it hooks on your ridge line which is
velcro tabs you go just like that does velcro that on now because these
things tend to slide here's where I have my shock cord right there and what that
does if I didn't have it on the shot cord this thing would tend to sag a
little bit with all the stuff I have on it and then when I hook it on I just
have the velcro tab on that side of it to keep it stretched out and I have the
other loop right here to keep it from sliding down also you have a full pocket
it goes all the way up the middle and I have a pair of gloves in there so I
could reach up and pull those out in the morning and that looks like that and
that goes all the way through and we go to this side and there's three pockets
smaller one there on the end I have my it's my tripod in there I'd probably
want to use that in the morning to feel myself I got a wider pocket right here
you can put some big stuff in I just slip this map in just to show and right
here I have a pair of sunglasses that are in there now you notice right now
that my ridgeline looks a little saggy with all the weight in there it's a
minute I got myself in the hammock that Ridgeline tightens right up and then
when I'm laying back and I need to reach up and get something in the night I just
reach and it's right there and it's easy enough to slide those pressing knots or
this whole thing up and down to where it's optimal for you I don't like mine
too far toward my head because then when I sit up it's touching my head I like to
slide my back just a little bit so when I get up in the night and I'm doing some
stuff it's kind of a way for me in these flow
fingers aren't reaching out and trying to get me all right let's refresh from
some other videos of tying this piece of shock cord on with a prusik knot loop
right there that's just a shot cord loop I've tied just tied an overhand knot me
in burn the edges this one is about as long as my middle finger so what I'm
gonna do is just put it on my ridge line and it doesn't matter which end you do
it with probably the first time you do it it's easier to do with the end with
the knot so I take it on the ridge line and I just loop it through you're just
looping through the loop okay I'm just gonna put that knot through the loop one
more time about three wraps for this is sufficient and I pull it tight and see
you have these series loops here and you kind of push those in together and just
snug it a bit and they mount you snug it makes it easier to slide up and down
your ridgeline and it just makes a nice stopper knot to keep things from from
sliding up or down that ridge line this is my daughter's rescue dog mr. bean Oh
youth the best give us that little funny smile beam give us a little funny smile
yeah he's a good dog okay let's go come on let's go
I got bean for two-and-a-half months while she's out on a cruise ship way
down under and Maggie and I are taking care of a dog we're in week two it's a
lot of responsibility it's kind of fun it's almost like having a child I pick
up poop in the bag now I can't believe I do that I said I never would you're
gonna get angry if I get close you're gonna get a little bit angry no you get
so what's that face what is that face what is that face is it a mean face yeah
so tough now here's one that's a little bit different and it just looks like a
big long bag I think I showed this on a trip report but this is from dream
hammock and it is called the gear sling and it's a big old bag it's got a zipper
at the top so you can zip it shut which is interesting it's got two
zippers so they can meet in the middle so you can zip it shut the ends have a
drawstring on them with a little cinch toggle and they're wide open so if you
want you can cinch that whole end up and make this thing one big cat sack like
this all right kind of got that cat sack on my arm right there so both ends are
open and both ends have sensibility you can cinch them up and it hooks on your
ridge line you have these hooks like this now you can just hook it on your
ridge line like this and this and if you want using these shockcord pieces that
I've used slide those down and that will keep it right up there but what it does
is it puts the opening a little close to the ridge line so kind of what I
normally like to do is you take this little hook and you put it into your
shock cord loop like this alright so now we got this thing hanging up like this
and it's a little bit easier to get up to your zippers and it's not right up
against your ridgeline so you can access it from the top but you got this big
wide end open right here and it's easy to go in that way and just to cinch it
up just a little bit so you know your glasses can hang in there without
falling out on you and if you want to cinch up the whole other end you can
certainly do that so here now I've got it just just clipped on to my hammock
suspension right where my hammock meets the suspension and just kind of using it
as a big sack like right here I can just
keep a jacket or a shirt in there keep it up I'm laying down I can reach back
there and get it and get inside of it
now what this is it's five point five ounces and what does it say on their
gear hammock this is a teeny tiny little hammock again I apologize I don't know
where I got this someone sent this to me I've only used a gear hammock once and
they work great but it just it just wasn't something that I used in you know
my hammock style but a lot of people do like them and use them and it's a tiny
hammock that you hang next to your hammock or below your hammock if you're
a high hanger and you can put a lot of stuff in there you can even lay your
pack in there if your person doesn't want your pack on the ground because you
don't like spiders and worms and whatnot in there here's the gear hammock hanging
to the side of my hammock I've got my whole pack in there I've got my ula
circuit shirt and for this purpose I've got it I would be getting in on the
other side of the hammock and my head goes here and my feet well my head
always goes I sleep with my head to the right my feet to the left so I think for
a gear hammock that would be a good setup for me you might even hold a dog
who knows right bheem what do you think beanie what do you think beanie weenie
what do you later buddy huh want to get in that hammock don't you
I'd be laying like this I got the hammock well I should say the gear
hammock layin right there and I got access to a lot of stuff here
now I know Jax our better selves uh it's a thing it's a pack cover and a gear
hammock so it can be used two ways and it's on their site under miscellaneous
and it hooks up something like that you'll have to find your perfect spot at
how you hook it up but this is a probably the best way to have storage if
you don't want you pack on the ground and you want to put a lot of stuff in
here and have access to it go so now I'm just out here just relaxing in my war
bonnet Ridge Runner which is a bridge style hammock and I wanted to mention
just like at the top of the video with the war bonnet xlc that had the Shelf
where I was putting a bunch of stuff into well the Ridge Runner has these
things called saddlebags right here and they hold a lot of stuff and even if I
have to bug net on it zips to the outside of the saddlebag here so while
I'm inside I can still access these and they hold plenty of stuff I got a big ol
shirt here I got big water bottle a pair of socks right there and my tripod and
there's one on the other side too so you have one on each side keeps the hammock
balanced out over here and I don't know there's a that's the last hammock I was
in that's a Dutch wear necklace hammock and I got a pair of gloves right there
so so I believe that war bonnet was probably the first at least the first
that I remember seeing that incorporated good storage along in their hammocks
other than you know some hammocks that you buy that just has the little tiny
stuff sack hanging off the side which maybe you can put your glasses and phone
in and your keys or a couple of things but but not much but here you got
adequate adequate storage now the hammock I'm sitting in right now is my
Dutch wear chameleon this hammock is built to be a modular hammock meaning
you can just buy the chameleon but you can add all
kind of things to it and what I have on here right now is a thing called this is
a whole storage unit this orange thing underneath it hangs beside dynamic it's
called the side sling all right and I actually have my whole top quilt down in
there right now it's my 30-degree hammock here top quilt and also I have
on here but it's called a peak shelf a lot of people like it up by their head
where they can reach up and get stuff behind them
I usually scoop back in the morning and have breakfast on the hammock but I like
my peak shelf at the foot it's the same a foot and as my head in so you can be
sleeping and have this peak shelf by your head but that's what that looks
like and so they have on the side sling and the peak shelf and that gives me a
ton of storage in this hammock and it would even you know even with the bug
net zipped up I can still access the IV come on in
I could still access the gear sling on the side
and while the bug net is closed still unzip it where it zips up against
the hammock and reach outside and tweak my underquilt without undoing that bug
net so it's pretty handy I'm gonna put a link to all the duchess attachments for
this he has small bags for water bottles small bags that are like those mesh
ridgeline organizers but they hang off the hammock he has a thing called the
sidecar which is a really deep B it's almost like the war bonnet shelf but it
hooks to the side of the hammock it hangs outside you can stake it out he's
got a he's got a bunch of add-ons to peak shelves different things so check
out his side I'll put the page that has the chameleon and all the add-ons to it
but let's take a closer look at some of these things right here so here's what
the peak shelf looks like and it hooks in it's easy to take off there's just a
I can't see it but it toggles up in here and it has these clips on the side that
I could add to the d-rings that go inside to hold it open one on each side
and then it just clips to a little gizmo right there that you can tighten it or
loosen it or however you want to have it on your ridgeline what I like about this
side sling is when you get in the hammock and you know like say right now
I've got it my whole top quilt in there um it doesn't affect your sit or you lay
it it sort of comes back up under my legs I get my big water bottle right
there and you know it's a modular piece so you attach it to the zipper that goes
along your chameleon I kind of like to just lay my arm down in there too and
hang it out there outside of the hammock so let's say I got my whole 30-degree
top quilt in there I can grab that and myself Oh snugged up sometimes you just
kind of want that out of the way and you're in and out for the day and
it's got a lot of room and it's kind of cut so you can put some heavy stuff in
that end will it slide down toward your foot end I don't know I think that will
stay there pretty well that water bottle that might be something my I might want
up toward my head for the night the other nice thing is it zips here there's
another zipper right here where it attaches to the hammock and I can zip
that open and if I needed to grab my underquilt while I was in here you can
see my hand goes outside underneath the side sling like that I can still adjust
my underquilt if I have my bug net zipped to the outside of the side sling
here oops I'm sorry this part that's the outside of the side sling this is the
zipper that goes right up against the hammock so here's that inside zipper
that you can open and reach outside the hammock that gap right there and then
this outside zipper would be where your bug net goes along it and joins the
zipper right here so it zips to the chameleon and it goes on up and attaches
up at your zipper point right up here
Dean and I are saying all secure in Sector seven whoo buddy whoo doggy
there's some options on your hammock storage not where you store your hammock
but where you store stuff when you're in the hammock I have faith in you because
you're a winner you're a winner