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.

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.

Jacketed Fire Hose Hammock 2.0

Look at this beautiful hammock made by a keeper at Binghamton Zoo using my directions. And look at the free-styling she did with the design!

Six runners! Four full-width tabs! Jacketed fire hose! Soft for butts and no bolts or nuts.

She did say that she may end up using some hardware to secure things and that's cool, too. We discussed maybe just doing the ends, or screwing them down to lengths of wood which would still be a lot lighter than a full on traditional hammock.

I was always concerned that the jacketed fire hose would be too flexible for this style of hammock because there's only one layer of rubber on the inside and then the polypropylene or nylon fabric "jacket" on the outside, but Jess proved me wrong. I had to make one myself, except I used rubber tabs because I've got so much laying around and they do provide more lateral strength.

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.