We sewed up a Zhammock yesterday, got the hammock done and almost done with the snakeskins (pics in the woods later today, I hope).

How do you attach the noseeum net to the hammock? My concept is to sew some double sided velcro to each end and and wrap the velcro around the hammock webbing, so that the netting hangs like a pup tent over the hammock.

How do you keep it stretched so it doesn't hang down on you?

Do you have to weight it down?

Do you have to velcro it to the hammock on the sides?

Is there anything else that you do with the netting?

We sewed up a Zhammock yesterday, got the hammock done and almost done with the snakeskins (pics in the woods later today, I hope).

How do you attach the noseeum net to the hammock? My concept is to sew some double sided velcro to each and and wrap the velcro around the hammock webbing, so that the netting hangs like a pup tent over the hammock.

How do you keep it stretched so it doesn't hang down on you?

Do you have to weight it down?

Do you have to velcro it to the hammock on the sides?

Is there anything else that you do with the netting?

what is a zhammock:cool: neo

http://www.imrisk.com/zhammock/zhammock.htm

http://www.imrisk.com/zhammock/zhammock.htm

thanks skylark,risk website is great,i even bought his book,i love hammock hanging:cool: neo

Would you say the book is worth buying? It looks pretty good.

Does he talk about making gear?

A few different ways to do it. Check here: http://www.tothewoods.net/HammockCampingBugfree.html

Risk has instructions on his site to sew one side, and put small pockets in the bottom of the other side. You just flop the net over and put a flashlight or something into the pockets to weight it down.

Would you say the book is worth buying? It looks pretty good.

Does he talk about making gear?

his book mainly about taking care of your knee,s hammmock camping,
i like his website better than his book,as far as hammock camping goes
i prefer ed speers book on hammock camping:cool: neo

A few different ways to do it. Check here: http://www.tothewoods.net/HammockCampingBugfree.html

Risk has instructions on his site to sew one side, and put small pockets in the bottom of the other side. You just flop the net over and put a flashlight or something into the pockets to weight it down.

Jeff, that page is really helpful.

Risk later decided that was a not the ideal solution, in the zhammock page he writes that it caused him to enter and exit only on one side, and stretched the hammock on one side. He talks about the litehammock as a better solution for bugnetting, but I think he has removed that one from his page??? There are not many bug net details on the zhammock page.

one method I have seen that I like is a line of shockcord at the bottom of the net-
-------- ridgeline
##### net
#####
===== shockcord

mirage has it? I don't remember.

TH