So what are you? You a Rocker? You a Roller? or are you a Stiller?
Found this thing called the RocketMan you hook it up to your hammock and it'll give you that rock
it reminds me of this being pressed up against my mother's bosom and her in that old rocking chair
squeaking out there on the porch rain coming down hitting the tin roof I'd hear her puffing on that
corn cob pipe dumping ashes on me made me tough it really did so check it out it's the Rocket Man
hammock rocker
all right and this is what you get when you lay in this thing and you set it up just right and
and this thing is a little particular in its setup so I'm going to link his instructional
video on how to use this thing below this video I recommend watching it and like he says watch it
a couple of times it's very particular to get it right because if you don't get it right it won't
do anything but if you get it right you're just going to get yourself a Little Rock like that
it's not like somebody pushing you in a swing set you know you can get your rock going but it's just
going to give you a gentle Rock like that for for a long time because I've really never used this
thing outside and under my tarp in fact I even hooked up the 12 volt battery to it today here's
what I learned today I was out here and I was wondering why it wasn't working and it's because
the suspension was kind of hitting my tarp so you can't have any interference when you're swinging
that's one thing I learned today and I got the one here I bought it with my own money wasn't given to
me and I'd rather just you know spend my own dime or 99 or 109 really not that expensive and I got
the one that will go on 12 volt and just regular old current from your house hook up with extension
cord and I know some people rocking drives them crazy they they just get vertigo you may not be
the kind of person that wants it but if you want a Little Rock then you can you can hook it to a
Hatteras hammock you can hook it to a hammock chair he's got it hooked to porch swings so if
you look at his information below you'll see all the things he hooks it up to to just get yourself
a nice gentle Rock but you gotta follow the rules it has to be lined up straight there's a a certain
angle with that shot cord and if you look you see that it goes up underneath my hammock to the
other side that's very important the other very important thing is that it's lined up straight all
right that this is an off-kilter like that so that little arm is not getting interfered with and also
that the line going out the shock cord is going out straight to the other side that
you're not sort of set off on an angle like this and you'll hear that it's how it rubs
one of the other things that's very important is this little arm right here
is straight up and down when you start you don't want it so when the hammock's hanging still that
it's here or too far back here you want it straight up and down so that when you get
your swing going you can see how that little bit of slack gets in the line when it comes this way
that is the fuse right there the brown thing
little five amp fuse and you want to make sure your little fan is running
then you know you got power I'll unplug it
the fan stops no power plug it in
because I'm using a gathered in Hammock here I added that white cord to the shock cord
which he provides and binder clips and I'm clipping right to the center of my hammock
in fact this Superior hammock I'm hooking right there I'm just clipping that clip
right there to the zipper and that works for this the other important thing
is you can see the angle of the shock cord right here when it goes straight
like he says in his videos you want sort of five to eight inches from here to the bottom of the
hammock all right so you don't want that shock cord straight or you don't want it too steep
and I'm going to say it one more time so if you're Rock curious not not rock curious but
Rock curious check out his video below to get the specifics of how he sets it up all right I showed
you roughly what I'm learning and you know there's been a few times when it didn't work for me or it
quit rocking or I couldn't get the rock going it's because I did not follow the instructions properly
so five to eight inch angle hooked to the other side of the hammock everything lined up don't have
it so far away that it tips over you know like he says if your hammock's really high and your shock
cord is at a really steep angle put it on a box or a cooler or something but there are just like
hanging a hammock some little specifics but if you get them all right then you can lay there and just
kind of have a gentle Rock for a nice long time and what I do in this Hammer because I hang fairly
low is I just put my hand on the ground just push myself to get going or sometimes when I get in it
um I just kind of get myself rocking and one of the other things he recommends is have the
rocket on the opposite side that you get in that won't work out here because I've got a little
Hill but I'm going to go ahead and enter it now take the stuff out and let you see that because
if you're watching this you must be desperate so again like he recommends this would be on
the other side of the hammock but because I'm on a little slope in my backyard the hammock would
be too low and I wouldn't have that proper angle so I'm just being mindful of the rocket man right
here now you can see here that the arm is back but watch when I put the weight in the hammock
because the hammock comes down well
let me get in it get my full weight in it
now when I'm in it that arm is pretty straight so now I'll just get myself rocking
and when I first got it I was constantly trying to get it to Rock Me Harder and uh this is about
the rock you get now I've had things with my Hatteras hammock a little thing that's
hooks up and it's a rope that goes to your hammock with a little wood handle that runs
out you put a stake in the ground with a little pulley that comes to your hammock
and you have to you know reach over and sort of pull it and get your momentum going every
three or four minutes again so when I rock this way the shock cord's tight and when
it goes backwards you see a little slack in it that's that'll keep me going a while right there
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because I'm in my backyard I can run my power Corp if you wanted to take this to a field or
a festival or somewhere where you can't run a cord you got that 12 volt battery option and that
works just make sure your battery's charged that you have a battery charger a way to recharge it
and it plugged into the 12 volt battery here
like all batteries make sure you have black on black connector red on red
yep like he said it's included this is for connecting to your 12 volt battery
it's a good Little Rock I like it so if you like rocking check out the rocket man it's swinging
battery not included now I know you're going to ask how much it weighs so here we go which
is four pounds 11 ounces 74.97 ounces which is 2125.5 grams that's how much it weighs
but it's not like you're going to have it in your backpack and if you uh do do that I
commend you I commend you also comes with your troubleshooting guide with a lot of these
specifics that you should take heed and make sure you're familiar with this so if you don't
like directions and don't look at that stuff well I say good luck to you partner but if you look at
the directions you will have success and you will rock and you will sway yourself into deep
deep Slumber whoa buddy I'll secure in sector seven let me ask you something Porter you ever
had one of them days or one of them evenings you just don't feel like laying on the ground
with your saddle bag up behind your head giving you a neck ache you got your blanket rolled
out there's scorpions and spiders and worms and snails and all kinds of things crawling up your
pants leg and just getting in God awful places I hear you sometimes I feel that way myself
lately I've come to the conclusion and like stringing myself up a cloth
and strain it between two trees or two very steel horses and lay in there or is it lying
there sometimes I lay in a lie to myself when I'm laying there and often that hammock as they call
it quits rocking and I want it to rock I want it to rock me like I'm in my mother's arms and
I don't remember much about my mother she put me on a cow sent me off into the Wilderness when I
was just a young fella I became quite a rustler Gunslinger mainly working manual jobs for a living
and that's the way I like it because I don't have to bring that work home with me but I'm digress
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