We have seen many alternative takes on the moveable hammock stand over time, and nearly all of them share a minimum of one factor in frequent: they maintain only one hammock. The brand new Hive stand from Yobogear units up wherever to make hammocking a couples-friendly affair, holding two hammocks aspect by aspect. The aluminum body packs and travels simply, requires no staking, units up through a telescoping pole design, and doubles as a shelter with the addition of a easy tarp.
Based by Cal Fenton, Yobogear has been constructing on-the-go hammock stands since 2015. Fenton discovered hammock sleeping to be simpler on his again, however needed to deal with a dire lack of timber on the prairie lands of Wyoming he calls dwelling. So he put collectively his first hammock stand and grew an organization out of it. Yobogear already provides two moveable single-hammock stands within the ultralight 5-lb (2.3-kg) Freedom stand and freestanding 7.6-lb (3.4-kg) Cricket stand, and the brand new Hive design provides a conveyable two+ particular person resolution to its line.
The Hive stand carries in a 32 x 6 x 6-in (81 x 15 x 15-cm) package deal designed to retailer simply at dwelling and in a automobile. Its 15-lb (6.8-kg) weight seems to be heavy in comparison with the Freedom and Cricket stands however is definitely in step with moveable single-hammock stands just like the Kammock Swiftlet and seems well-suited to motorized vehicle adventures.
Yobogear depends on telescoping 1 1/4-in aluminum poles, structural crossbars and elbows, and rigidity traces to construct up right into a body with a footprint that ranges between 11 and 14.5 toes x 5 toes (3.4 and 4.4 m x 1.5 m). Customers can regulate the size of the legs (and peak of the stand), in addition to the general stand size.
The Hive is designed primarily for 2 hammocks, nevertheless it will also be used for a single hammock or perhaps a mixture of two side-by-side hammocks and a smaller child's or gear-loft hammock over prime, as pictured on the prime of the article. Its massive dimension and 750-lb (340-kg) weight capability permit it to carry nearly any hammock. Yobogear says it took the stand to the HangCon hammock competition and tried it with each mannequin it may get its fingers on, reporting that it labored with all of them, as much as and together with a 14-ft (4.3-m) woven Mayan hammock. The Hive can also be designed to work with bridge hammocks and hammock tents.
There are different hammock stands that may accommodate two folks (on one hammock) and even three-hammock designs just like the (100-lb/50-kg) ENOpod stand, however Yobogear claims the Hive to be the one moveable stand in the marketplace able to holding two folks in separate hammocks aspect by aspect. The iDome Shelter and Dookan tent we checked out in 2022 have comparable side-by-side/multi-hammock capabilities, however they're each extra advanced hammock/shelter options, not easy stands.
The Hive body can even flip a single tarp right into a dual-hammock shelter. Customers can drape the tarp over prime or under the height of the Hive and stake it out as essential. Yobogear provides attachable extension poles for this goal.
Yobogear has a couple of days left on a Kickstarter marketing campaign via which it is providing the Hive for a pledge degree of US$799, a $400 low cost off the deliberate retail worth. Whereas we like the thought of the Hive, for that type of worth we're undecided we would not want two extra reasonably priced single-hammock stands (like these) planted aspect by aspect. However Kickstarter would not appear fazed – the Hive has raised greater than six instances its purpose, and the marketing campaign stands at over $133,000 on the time of publishing. So it seems to be like the way forward for hammocking will embody some cozy coupling inside Hives.
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