{"id":554,"date":"2009-06-08T00:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T05:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","slug":"diy-hammock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/diy-hammock\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Hammock"},"content":{"rendered":"

I completed my most recent project tonight.\u00a0 It only took 2 months, $135, and as Jeni says: 412 steps.\u00a0 Not going to win any speed awards here, but it is actually completed!\u00a0 Compared to most of my projects, that’s saying something \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Wayyy back in early April, the weather suddenly turned nice for a few days and I was struck with a craving for a hammock.\u00a0 I considered buying one, but then found an article from the May 1982<\/strong> edition of Mother Earth News<\/em> <\/a>on making a “Heavenly Hammock”<\/a>, and convinced myself it would be a great project.<\/p>\n

Materials<\/h2>\n

Twine – $12
\nWood – $6
\nWelded metal rings – $4<\/p>\n

Beer – $8<\/p>\n

Hammock stand – $100<\/p>\n

Tools<\/h2>\n

Drill
\nCandle
\nNetting Shuttle<\/p>\n

Version 0<\/h2>\n

It took several nights over the course of a week or two to actually weave this thing.\u00a0 The weaving was awkward at first, but after a few rows I got the hang of it.\u00a0 I would advise anyone making their first hammock to weave some extra rows at the end, and then go back and cut off the top several rows that (probably) look terrible in comparison.<\/p>\n

I started with several spools of twine and a homemade shuttle cut from a six-pack of Smirnoff something or other:
\n\"Twine\"<\/a>\"High-class<\/a><\/p>\n

After weaving back and forth and back and forth the hammock took shape.\u00a0 For higher-tension runners down the sides, I braided 3 22-foot strands of gold twine together, and then folded it in half and did a 4-strand round braid with two 10′ pieces of white twine.\u00a0 (For each<\/em> side!) :
\n\"First<\/a>\"Weaving<\/a>\"4-strand<\/a><\/p>\n

Version 1<\/h2>\n

The “completed” hammock sat unused in my room for a week or two or three without a stand, until Jeni convinced me today to just buy a pre-made (safe) stand and be done with it.\u00a0 And so I present version 1!
\n\"Version<\/a><\/p>\n

… it hit the ground immediately when I laid down in it:
\n\"Version<\/a><\/p>\n

Version 2<\/h2>\n

After some rework to cut out about 8 rows’ worth of inner netting, I produced Version 2.\u00a0 It obviously went too far the other direction… though I could <\/em>technically lay down on it:
\n\"Version<\/a>\"Version<\/a><\/p>\n

Version 3<\/h2>\n

The good news is that I “cut out” my 8 rows by just tying the netting on farther in, without actually cutting the twine.\u00a0 Because I needed about 4 of those rows back… This time, the hammock looks like a hammock, sits like a hammock, works<\/em> like a hammock \ud83d\ude42
\n\"Version<\/a>\"Version<\/a>\"Version<\/a><\/p>\n

… And the best part?\u00a0 Tyson can jump me!\u00a0 (He’ll do anything for a dish of hose water…)
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I completed my most recent project tonight.\u00a0 It only took 2 months, $135, and as Jeni says: 412 steps.\u00a0 Not going to win any speed awards here, but it is actually completed!\u00a0 Compared to most of my projects, that’s saying something \ud83d\ude42 Wayyy back in early April, the weather suddenly turned nice for a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}