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Zombie-proof tent

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Looks like a bridge-style multi-person hammock-style tent. I like small, single-person hammock tents for lightweight, but the problem always happens for me that I just don't usually have reliable trees where I prefer to camp: the desert. (Imagine that!)

One un-spoken issue with hammocks: you need some serious padding/quilting underneath you. Tents don't usually have wind running freely under them. This effect will chill you faster than you can imagine.

Yeah, all the times I have camped with a hammock the cold spots have been unbearable.

Zombie-proof depends on which zombies you're talking about. Faced with the shuffling Night of the Living Dead zombies from George Romero's movies, perhaps a suspended tent would keep you safe enough. Against the running, climbing zombies from 28 Days Later though, I'd be much less inclined to feel secure.

They'll perform even poorer against the zombie lawyers when one of these fails midsleep but the kid in me still loves the idea of a mobile tree fort.

Yeah... my grandfather told me these kind of lawsuits were the reason all producers of swings and hammocks went out of business long ago. Gotta miss the old days.

Zombie accountants, lawyers, medical personnel, soap opera actors, and I smell a market. There should be a zombie channel that mimics current shows with zombie based shows. Any duplicated zombie-based shows would instead show zombies being chased by people. The zombies just want to (un)live?

Look at the tension in one of the pictures[1], it looks like if you rolled over with keys in your pocket you'd rip right through it.

Not to mention the price tag of $1,350.00, I'd be shocked if they'd sold any.

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0213/4326/t/1/assets/carou...

They're probably using some sort of rip-stop material, so you're not likely to cause a catastrophic failure all at once. That said, it looks horribly uncomfortable. The reason hammocks are comfortable is that they cradle you and hold you secure. There also isn't another person rolling around to disturb you. These tents seem like all of the worst features of a hammock without any of the benefits.

For a 300 lb tent load that's putting roughly 1000 lb tension on each tie (though they don't show any pictures of how much it sags to allow a better estimate of the angle). Not good for the trees and not comfortable to consider the failure modes. Slingshot?

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/rope-angle-tension-increas...

Yay, another way to 'enjoy the outdoors' while completely isolating yourself from the uncomfortable fact that... well, you are in the outdoors! </sarcasm>

Joking aside, I've always found the American (and Canadian) way of 'camping' a bit ridiculous. If you need to pack two cars with stuff before you are doing it wrong.

Link bait title but I upvoted anyways because the tent concept was unique and pretty cool.

Nice solution to the bear problem. I wonder how they hold up in high winds though?

In the UK we don't have any bears (any more) but aren't they curios animals that would happily climb a tree and slash one of the ropes just to see what happens?

You mean like, kids?

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