Hello it's Shug here. As promised today we're going to take a look at the superior deer
starlight hammock i'm going to take you through all the features and add-ons that you can add on
or you don't have to add them on you can keep it as basic as you like
this would be sort of your basic hammock it does not have built-in insulation it comes with a full
zip on bug net which i'm going to put on in a minute if you hear a little background noise
that's me running a big fan back there because it's humid today and getting pretty warm as it
has been here in minnesota a lot this year this time i've chosen to hang the stuff sack right here
but here are the features of the hammock from here to here that is your continuous loop and
that goes down to the hammock and up under here is where the zippers end and you hook everything up
you have an adjustable ridge line right here you can slide this up and down like a whoopee
sling to set the sag of your hammock i have mine set here if you let that whole thing out
your hammock is going to look a little straighter if you draw it in your hammock is going to do
a little bit more of that we're looking at two sets of fabrics here it's a double layer
this inside layer is cloud 71. you can see it's a really translucent see-through fabric
and that is sewn right here and on the outside that fabric is an argon like 0.70
along the sides you have these cam snaps here
this is where the under quilt snaps on and we'll look at that in just a little bit
also right here you look and see we have a pocket between the two layers
so i can get my hand in there and that's where you slip your pad in
and there's a little small one just kind of enough to get your hand in there and sort of
pull your pad up or adjust your pad once it's in there but that's the basic hammock right there
you can use the stuff sack for the hammock and hang it on your ridge line
dual purpose i've got the full bug net right here so the full bug net is 5.73
ounces which comes out to 162.5 grams
you reach up under here and you're going to find the end of your zipper and you just get that in
start zipping that make sure it's over your ridge line you're going to take
this little hook right here you're going to hook that into that piece of elastic
i was talking about right here that's right there so that's just going to help everything
can you see that i hope so that's going to help everything stay tight and closed all right
now we're all zipped up on both ends they meet right here in the middle and zip just like that
here's the bug net pulled up out of the way using just a couple little pieces
of bungee that wrap around and join right there
all right let's just weigh the stuff sack first that is 35.5 grams or 1.25 ounces
okay here we go with just the hammock that is 12.29 ounces and that would be 348.5 grams
so here's the hammock the bug net and the stuff sack all together
pretty small and it'll still compress a little bit now keep in mind i don't have a suspension in here
because you're probably going to use your own choice of suspension so that is 19.24 ounces
546 grams now here's the suspension i'm using i have a five foot tree strap here
with my toggle tied with a marlin spike hitch and a whoopee sling
which is am still 764th going down to a dutch banner that is kind of
what i just about always use on my hammocks it's fairly lightweight i trust it i like it
of course danny sells his own type of suspension which is really nice and easy to use oh by the way
when i say danny i mean the owner of superior gear hammock and i will say me living in minnesota i'm
kind of partial to a guy that makes some hammocks right here in our state
i have gone ahead and thrown a pad in the hammock here this is one of my rei insulated pads
i think you can see that in there it's a gray pad so it's against this gray bottom but
that's laying in there and because i lay with my head to the right i have my pad scooched way
to the right here and then i push it so my feet are to the left it can be a little tricky getting
a pad and wrangling it into a double layer hammock with this one uh the openings are a little smaller
than most so i put the pad in there lightly inflated and then inflate it while it's in there
at least i did with this pad with a closed cell foam pad you could just sort of roll it up and
shove it in get your arm in there and put it with where you want usually takes a couple of tries
lay in it see how it feels get out tweak it lay in it of course you could just lay your
pad inside the hammock too but you got this option and this is probably what a lot of
very new people are going to do because everybody that gets a hammock starts with a pad
once they realize they go out camping with no insulation and get cold on their back and buttocks
at about midnight two in the morning head on out of here get an under quilt hooked on
all right so the version i have right here which is is the elite starlight which is
the ultra lightweight one with lighter weight fabrics will support a body weight of 300 pounds
but your standard starlight will support a weight of 400 pounds so now i'm going to go ahead and
hook up my big full length 45 degree under quilt so have the suspension off the end right here
all right with a little hook and another thing you can actually use this as a top quilt too
bundle it all together and use it so what i'm going to do is take this little hook right here
and hook it to my hammock suspension so we're just going to take that little hook
i'm just going to hook that right there and i'm going to run down to the other end and
hook that one up so right here on the hammock i have these two double snaps side by side
and i have the ones that will match them right here on the under quilt
and snap those together and i know everything is going to line up great
so now i just go along and start snapping these together
only takes a second this way i know my under quilt is going to be adjusted just right under me and
then i just go on down and finish snapping those and snap them on the other side and i'm set get in
and you're done man i don't have to reach out and tug it up so now what i want to do is i
want to create a gap there because let's say it's you're using this under quilt and it's 80 degrees
when you go to sleep at night and you're hot so the way to vent this is just to do this you're
going to take your underquill suspension and just undo it all right and now it's hanging way open
so now i have a huge gap there
so i've got air flowing in there i could even unsnap a few of these and my underquilt is
still hanging because at a certain point in the night i might get cold start feeling the cool
so without getting out of my hammock i can reach up here to these two snaps
and i can i can snap those back in
pretty pretty easy that's the first time i ever done that so now i've undone the
the bungees on both ends so i have a nice big gap in there these are dangling free
that's much better hanging open and if i'm still just too hot i could do something like that oh
so that's your little look you see at the superior gear
starlight hammock there's the brand new cocoon option which is brand new and i'm
looking forward to checking that out this winter just to add a little bit more to my top quilt and
you know you get so much down going on in the winter it's kind of nice just to have something
to hold your top quilt in and you can kind of maybe even use that as a little bit of a cover
which maybe i would do for a while because i like to read in the winter sometime and my hand gets
cold i think the strength of this hammock is the attachment of the underquilt it's just going to
save some people that are struggling a lot of trouble all secure in sector seven woo buddy
hey shush why you always show off to do a trick for the people they don't care about these shoes
they just want to see the superior gear start like a hammock that's all they want to shooji