Low Hammock Sleep System

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it's missionary survival so we're going to go over one of the ways I like to set up my hammock stay tuned he's putting in two quick release knots like I always do my hammock alright so if you follow my work then you know that I like to use two Siberian hitches on the trees and two quick-release knots on the hammock now what we're going to do here is change the height and modify it for a specific reason

okay so as you can see my hammock just a few inches off the ground let's discuss the benefits with this okay so here we go my fire will be in front of me as always the width and size of my fire depends on the temperature you know if it's freezing it's going to be a bigger fire to be a wider fire if it's summer then it's just going to be a small ember based fire I mean just you know log smouldering where I put a little bits of debris on it and things like that and I just make smoke to ward off the insects I don't use bug nets or anything like that now by setting up my hammock so low and close to the ground and the fire it gives me all of the benefits when it's cold whether that's sleeping on the ground because I'm gonna get all the heat from the embers just like I normally do the last thing right into me you know sleep just like this I always have my head hanging over you know it's beautiful and I feel all that heat on my face absolutely love it it's brilliant so it gives me all the benefits of sleeping on the ground because I'm an inch off of it but it takes away all of the negative of actually sleeping on the ground because now there's no conduction with me in the ground I'm not you know this ground right now is actually really wet you know I'm surrounded by mud everything's really wet right now everything's really cold because right now our snow is melting we got a kind of a warm spell that came through and our snow is melting right now and everything is just damp soaked and cold though you know cuz it's just about freezing you know it's high 30s low 40s so everything is still cold everything's really damp and wet it's really not a situation that you're going to be comfortable sleeping on the ground next to your fire because the ground is so wet so this particular setup with your hammock really excels when the snowing Brown and you don't want to lay right on the snow or if the ground is really really wet okay so this is one of my options I go to in the winter and in the transition months you know when it's real stormy and everything's soaked and you know the snow is melting or the snow you know it's fresh snow but then it warms up because it hasn't really frozen yet you know or sleet things like that everything's real wet and cold you know the transition months and in winter this this setup works beautiful because I'm so low to the ground you know like I was saying I still get all the benefits of my fire my embers and all of that no problem at all okay also by having my blanket flapped over the front it protects my hammock from the intense heat coming off of the fire as well and you know I can still wrap up in it as I normally would have it completely covering me you know all the way in front both pieces come right here and it's really really nice all right let's be missionary survival appreciate your views your karma see sport CNN excellent take care