Anybody know how to "Pig Proof" a hammock?

The fence idea seems like a good idea. Settlers and Native Americans built these around gardens.
If you have a nice spot you plan on using year round, might be worth the effort to "fence it".

You can make a gate from the same materials.

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It'll keep the much-feared bunnies out also!

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Not kidding. It works well. If anything it gives you piece of mind when you sleep. Not a fence, but you could position it so that you don't trip it off in your hammock. Or two, one on each side. Some of them you can control the volume too. The cool part is they have a remote, so you don't have to get out of the hammock. If they set it off, you can look out the hammock, determine if they've been repelled, hit disarm to kill the alarm, re-arm it, and nod off.
 
Oh yeah, it also works for teenagers that try to sneak out or in the house, keeps skunks away from bee hives, and if you put it on the furniture, teaches the dog to keep off the couch.

and if you are handy with a sodering gun..you can rig it to a model rocket engine so instead of the alarm, it sets off a rocket.... (that can be done with a clothes pin too, as a trip wire)
 
Friends and I camp in areas with wild pigs all the time. Never had a problem. Some of us hammock camp some just sleep on the ground with a tarp lean-to. Like one of the guys posted, we always saw it as fresh meat walking into camp. Just get out there and enjoy yourself and quit worrying so much. Now skunks wandering into camp and sniffing your butt can make for a interesting encounter. Remember to move real slow around those black and white critters.
 
Is there a season for knife fighting pigs? A hammock could be a good place to hang out and wait for one to walk by.
 
No hogs running around up here, but we do have skunks. Just remember they don't typically spray against the wind, so walk around them that way. No wind...back away. In a live trap, put your hose on a gentle spray and approach then cover them with a garbage bag...good luck with the release. If your dog gets sprayed take a tablespoon of palmolive dish soap, a tablespoon of baking soda and a pint of vinegar and you'll have an oxidizing formula that will deodorize your dog but careful around the face, it gets pretty warm. I have a black lab that I turned orange/blonde 3 times before she decided against messing with 'em again.
By the way, how do them wild hogs taste, and seeing as they're a bit of an issue why aren't you folks eating them?
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"there's a special place for every one of God's creatures...right beside my mashed potatoes"
 
I camp at Myakka all the time in my Hammock, with no problems. I have a Clark Jungle Hammock and I have camped at every primitive site at Myakka several times
 
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