I got a new underquilt, and we're setting it up today! Welcome back guys and gals, my name
is Matt, and this channel is all about hiking and backpacking. we talk a ton of hammock
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button over there I'm staying at the start we got a new
under cool we're gonna be setting up today so what I got here this is my
brand new zero degree loft tech hybrid synthetic under cool from outdoor vitals
it's a zero Degree so this is gonna be a new winter rated under : check it out
super stoked for that obviously we got to get it hooked up on the hammock first
first step that I always follow when I set up an under quilt I lay my under
cold out in my hammock in the direction that it's gonna go so I don't actually
know if that's how they designed these but what I'm gonna go with is on this
one I'm gonna go with the outdoors vitals logo being at the head end of my
hammock so we're gonna go to the head end and we're gonna start hooking this
thing up up here at the head end of my hammock what you'll notice coming off
the end of most your under coats you're gonna have a whack of shock cord now I
know this can probably be super confusing if it's your first time ever
doing it but it's actually ridiculously simple to deal with so most under quilts
like this one here come with an SP air what I've done here is I've removed the
gate off this SP inner what that does is it makes putting it on taking it off
that much easier being a zero Degree underquilt
going into winter temperatures the last thing I want to do is deal with that
little fiddly gate when my fingers are cold so we're just gonna hook this on to
the continuous loop of our hammock and now we're gonna go down to the foot end
over here at the foot end of the hammock same thing with the SP inner we've
removed the gate make it easier taking it off and on click that under
continuous loop we're almost done okay I'm just kidding we're not quite done
yet well we got the quilt here up on our hammock next step we're gonna take our
hammock dump it inside the quilt one thing that you guys may notice when you
put your hammock inside the undercook the under quilt may lift up on your
hammock just a little bit that's actually okay
is you got to think this is all shockcord right so when you lay down in
this the shock cord is gonna stretch a little bit and you do want the undercoat
pulled up against you so you don't end up with any cold spots you don't want it
lifting up too much where your under cold is almost sitting at your ridge
line but you do want the undercoat lifting up a little bit on the hammock
to test and make sure that we've got the right
Heights it what I what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna take my hand palm down and
I'm going inside the hammock and I'm just putting pressure on the inside of
the hammock and I'm taking my other hand in between the hammock and the under
quilt and then putting my hand down to make sure that the hammock does indeed
come in contact with the under krill but to make sure that it's not pushing down
too much you can also feel from the bottom to see if you're compressing any
of that down or in this case synthetic insulation
we're not compressing the insulation so I'm pretty sure we're good on the height
if you do need to adjust the height on your underquilt
a little bit and you want to lift it up the easiest way that I know to do it
I'll show you what I do with the foot end here so you may notice I've got a
couple knots tied here at the foot end what this does is this gives me the
ability to raise or lower the height of the primary suspension with the quilt
now around the hammock you'll see it kind of looks sloppy we got baffles
hanging off the ends here and whatnot let's go to the head in here we're gonna
take care of the baffles and we're gonna take care of the different suspension
components and get this tidied up get it snug up so it's gonna keep us nice and
warm here at the head end of the hammock what we've got this line here that comes
out of the big channel on your hammock this is your primary suspension this
secondary line just below it is your secondary suspension and then you've got
a channel that will go all the way around with this little tiny shot cord
here this is your end baffle tubes so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tuck this
end baffle in gonna fold it to the inside being the head end of my hammock
here I don't want to tighten this end channel up too much because what's going
to happen when you lay down inside your hammock your shoulders are gonna make
this stretch out so you don't want this channel cinched up too much or it's
gonna pinch too tight on your shoulders and you're gonna end up with some cold
spots so what we're gonna do is we're gonna
take these little mini cord locks
it soon shows up just a little bit now we're gonna go down to the foot end down
here at the foot end we got the same thing with that channel and the small
cord lock I'm gonna close that up hold that baffle inside nicely now the foot
in you do want to close up a little more cuz you got to think your feet are
generally gonna be a little more narrow than your shoulders this gives you an
idea here how that baffle seals nicely and around the foot end of the hammock
we've got our baffles taken care of we've got our primary suspension set
silver quilt is hanging at the right height on our hammock
now we're gonna adjust our secondary suspension with the secondary suspension
line does and I've got it loosened off all the way here on the head end you'll
see the quilt can kind of sag down along that primary suspension line what this
secondary suspension does is when you pull this line and start tightening it
you'll see it stretches the quilt out along the primary suspension so what
that does is it stops a quote from sagging in the middle so you don't get
any cold spots underneath your butt but this is also how we're gonna position
the quilt so that this quilt is gonna sit in the right spot when I climb
inside the hammock so what I'm gonna do is you can kind of see I don't know if
you can see here but what I've got here is I've got this side pulled up higher
so this is where my left shoulder is gonna tuck into this side is where my
right shoulder is gonna tuck into but you got to think in this hammock it's a
right lay so I'm kicking myself off onto the diagonal so I want this side pulled
up a little bit higher on my left side so it wraps around my shoulder and I'm
going to go down to the foot in and I'm going to do the same thing on the right
side so that when my feet go in it's gonna pull the quilt down a little bit
farther so my feet stay covered just like I was saying down here at the foot
end we're gonna pull this secondary suspension line and stretch that quilt
out a little bit and we're gonna pull that down to the foot in now we're gonna
climb inside see how our adjustments worked out here we go moment of truth
get over pulls up so you can see by adjusting that primary suspension it
pulls the quilt up make sure it wraps nicely up around my shoulders don't feel
any cold spots underneath me definitely feel the warmth coming in underneath me
already which is awesome putting my hands in underneath I don't feel any
gaps underneath the quilt feels like it's pulled up nicely up against me
let's take the camera and put it up on the head end and the foot in and we're
gonna check to make sure that those baffles are sealed off nicely and we
should be good to go okay you can see how that baffle wraps up and really
seals around me like I was saying before how a lot of people have issues by
tightening up the head end too much you can see how that really wraps around and
stretches out so you don't want to seal that head and baffle up too much like I
was saying I don't feel any gaps up above me though this feels like it's
step pretty good now let's go check out the foot in we can see that baffle
ceiling upper on my feet my feet are nice and toasty
I definitely feel the warmth coming up in the back of my legs underneath my
heels awesome our new winter under quilt is set up and adjusted we are ready to
go thank you guys for joining me on this one hopefully you guys got something
from it if it helped you guys out smash that thumbs up let me know in the
comments down below and if you guys have any questions at all feel free to drop
my love to help you guys out if I can as always guys I am Maddy thank y'all so
dang much for watching and I will see you guys on the next one
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