Try a Trio of Triangle Hammocks

You can't fit a square peg into a round hole. You can't hang a square hammock in a corner. Solve one of these problems with a triangle!

Maybe you'll notice I'm not using hose. Or maybe not! It's not hose. Construction paper is not fecal-friendly. I'm sick at home so this is what I've got, but paper is a great way to prototype your hose fabrication ideas.

Building With Red Rubber Hose

Red rubber hose. Makes you feel powerful and professional at work, gives you hose envy at home when you have to use your run-of-the-mill garden dribbler. Great as it is it doesn't last forever, especially if you have to slide it across any paved surfaces. But even as the red gave way to black and then to ever-fraying white threads until finally you got a blowout of high pressure water all over your pants right before your keeper talk you still didn't throw out that sad 50 feet of rubber, did you? All those months (years?) of working together making the world clean and new and the quality time looping it over and under into the perfect fireman's coil. And hell it was like $80; when are you going to get approved to spend that again? Honor it. Give it a second life as something for your animals to poop on.

Making Use Of Every Scrap

I noticed a pile of short pieces of jacketed hose just lying around and decided to give them a job. Instead of long runners they'll be stacked side-to-side like rungs on a ladder. These in turn will tab into a narrower rubber hose. Having everything tabbed into something else makes for simpler construction than the edge-less hammock with almost the same benefits of eliminating open ends.

Edgeless Fire Hose Hammock

As proud as I am about my new hammock design, it does have a weakness in that there are two ends that are just rows of open hose asking to be chewed on and messed with by the animals. Here's a way to fully frame the outside of the hammock with more hose to make it "edgeless" with an almost continuous seam around the perimeter. You could make a brand new hammock or even utilize your current one as the center piece.

Looking at the layout above you can see the central portion is pretty much the same all the other hammocks posted about in the blog so I'll focus on making the frame.

Hanging Perches Without Fasteners

Yes, this is about more fire hose. I find it to be a really versatile material to work with. It works as straps, it works as a flat tube, it keeps its shape, it holds weight, and it can keep these properties as we cut it up. In the way that a pig can become ham, bacon, baby back ribs, and Spiderpig, fire hose can become anything we need it to be.

What I really like is that because of all its unique properties I can use to to make things without fasteners. If you notice in all my fire hose posts so far there's no zip ties, no nuts and bolts, no screws, no tape, nothing to worry about failing and falling off and being ingested by the very animals we're trying to take care of.

Fire Hose Hammock 2.0

The traditional zookeeper hammock is woven with perpendicular lengths of hose with their ends fastened by nuts, bolts, and washers. Being made of two layers of industrial hose and lots of metal hardware means heavy furniture that never gets taken down for cleaning or repair. Here's another way that's just as strong.