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HAMMOCK INTEGRATED SLEEPING BAG

One of my readers asked if I couldn’t make a sleeping bag for use primarily in a hammock that would have a ground pad fitting into a pocket on the back of the bag.

While I am not favorable towards pockets on bags for ground use a pocket for a ground pad that it fits into the bag for use in a hammock made sense to me, so I made one which I will photograph this evening and show on the web site as well as in the newsletter tomorrow.

This is a center zip 25 degree bag. It has a pocket on the back or bottom of the bag that opens in the middle versus at one end of the bag. In this manner the pad will not slide out either end of the bag. The ground pad is completely encased with 200 denier oxford nylon that is coated so it can also be used on the ground. The bag will have a stuff sack and the ground pad will have straps so it can be rolled up like our other ground pads.

The size of the sample bag is the standard long and wide (90 inches long and 34 inches wide in the torso) and the weight is 4 pounds 4 ounces in the compression stuff sack (the stuff sack weighs about 5 ounces). The ground pad weight is 2 pounds 10 ounces.You would carry two items as you do now.

In this manner the bag can be laundered like all other Wiggy’s bags without damage as would happen with the original model. As for the ground pad, just hose it down if it gets dirty. The nylon is coated so water will not get in to affect the densified fiberfill padding.

The cost for the system is $350.00. I will not make a production run of these bags so they will be custom made so to speak to begin with. If there are a significant number of orders I will make a production run and will probably be able to reduce the price. That of course remains to be seen.

One more time one of my customers has been instrumental in offering a suggestion that I hope will be a successful product. THANK YOU!

Over the last 15 years I have made several products that I did not think about; the leg jackets, waders, the Single Person Bivi Shelter, which came about by the Mazama Climbing Club in Portland Oregon, the oldest climbing club in the country, but there have been several modification as a result of users asking if I could change this or that. All changes have helped in my opinion to make it the best Single Person Bivi Bag in the world. Then there is the Hypothermia bag; I was guided by EMT’s and some doctors and it too is the best Hypothermia bag in the world. The only credit that I take for all of these items is being the fabricator versus the creator. Also knowing which materials would be the best to use.

Many people have called and presented their ideas and unfortunately they were not workable, but I have always given them an audience because as I have found out you do not know when an idea will work.

Just for the sake of good order if any of you out there have an idea please write it and send it to me, if you can draw it that will also help, but please do not be disappointed if I reject your idea.

Thanks again to those whose idea has proven successful for Wiggy’s.

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