Camping hammock selection

[sadiejane]

this gives ya some idea, when he gets in the hammock and shows different ways of laying in the hammock. this is brandon-the one man warbonnet show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWlM0pROnpU

 

[chopchop]

Anyone have pictures of someone laying in one? I keep hearing you can lay relatively flat on an angle but I just don't see it.

Take a kitchen towel and hold it longways with the ends bunched in either hand. That's your hammock. Now put a rolling pin in it and pick it back up again. You'll see if you put the rolling pin at an angle to the line between your hands, it will lie flat. If you play with how much of a curve there is in your towel (or how close your hands are to each other), you can see that different hangs change how much of an angle is required to lay flat.

I don't have a camera handy, or I'd show you what I mean.