Solo Overnighter in a Flat Lay Hammock 

Hey Dude in my Country it's 00:10 am. I watch your video before going to sleep.

After seeing this I'm going to have to get one, thanks for posting!!!

Hey, Andy, welcome to the AMOK hammock family. I have been using mine for over a year now. Own 3 of them - love the XL Ultralight the best. I think you will love it on your trip. A tip for getting in and out if you wish - always make sure your weight is balanced in the middle/center of the AMOK at ALL times and not toward the head or foot of the AMOK. Then it is easy to get in and out. I have tried many different ways but as an old man of 70 years, I have found when getting in that if I get my right knee in the exact middle/center of the AMOK leaning with my head toward the head of the AMOK so my weight is over the center and then slowly gently roll in. it works perfectly. (my wife and daughter say it looks funny when I am getting in - but it works really slick) Then to get out simply sit up, making sure your butt (weight) stays as close to the exact middle of the hammock as possible and make sure that you don't shift your weight toward the head or foot end, simply swing your legs out over the edge of the AMOK and put your feet on the ground then push straight up with your hands from right next to your bum like you're helping lift yourself up from a chair with your hands and just stand up. Don't push the AMOK backward with your hands as the AMOK will just swing away from you and leave you to fall as the support is above you in this hammock like a swing would be. I tried all types of ways after watching all the videos on RU-vid and this way - for me anyway - is absolutely the easiest and for me now the only way to do it. It took a couple times to make sure I was really centered before I simply pushed down with my hands and stood up. But after doing that a couple times and making sure I was centered as I said it was easy to balance and easy to stand and is almost second nature to me now. (IF your AMOK is hung too low you might have a problem but if you have it about 15 to 18 inches from the ground WHEN YOU ARE IN IT, standing up and keeping your balance should be easy with just a couple of practices.) Hope all those words made sense - and help. I have taught all my grandkids - though they are so limber they just kind of hop in and out - and my 40-year-old daughter who wanted to figure it out for herself - but finally after struggling by sliding out the bottom and struggling to get centered, decided to let me help - After one attempt using the method as I have tried to describe above, she had absolutely no problem getting in and out. As I usually have to get in and out at least once in the night for the obvious reason, this method is a life saver for me so I don't slide out, or have to roll out onto my knees to do my business, but simply stand up and then roll in easily half asleep. ATB Andy - and the food looked delicious - Oh if you want I can make a video for you on how I do it. In fact, I need to post it on my channel come to think of it, since I haven't done that yet.

Two sausage sandwiches, no ketchup? What is the world coming to? 😧

A very nice set up Andy & if I am not too late - happy travels in Norway etc.

I can't wait for the day you build an underground shelter of some description, fantastic channel Andy I've always got time to watch your content, me amongst many others.

I am always pleased when a RU-vidr goes back to a familiar forest setting and shows the lasting value of previous builds.

Hey Andy been a sub for just over 2 years now and I recon it's the the best channel out there your camera work editing, brilliant but now the wife is addicted to your channel cause your food is out of this world

Loved the video as always Andy. Soo looking forward to the videos of the trip 😜😜

Was good to see this Andy. I liked Simon's one when he showed it, and now yours being newer I can see there have been some improvements. These look like a good idea. Worth spending the time to learn an easy way in and out for any new owner I guess. Thanks for sharing with us. Be well. ;o)

Brilliant again Andy. Even your simplest food looks amazing. Loved the vid. Very excited for your adventure with Simon.

Another canoe trip. Nice. Looking forward to those videos. Really enjoyed the Sweden videos.

Hello Andy, after 2 full size cans of beer you at your. Pork meat without ketchup… really ? And no hot cocoa either ? You should drink less powerful beers mate 😂😂. Take care.

Wait a minute! No ketchup on the breakfast sarnie.... hmmm..... Who are you, and what have you done with Andy?!?! lol 😆 🤣

I love your channel. You are so calm and easy going. No annoying music and beautiful nature. Thank you. Irma from the Netherlands.

I really like that hammock I can not sleep in a normal cocoon hammock... thank you for sharing. A tip on splitting your firewood to save time and your back, I take a bungee strap and stretch it around my bigger wood rounds then split it . That way it does not blow apart a you have to pick up every piece 20 tines each . Later mate

Was just thinking this morning that I hoped a new video would drop for my early Saturday morning viewing! Cheers from the Prairies of Canada!🍻

I love my DD Jungle hammock and I am a side/back/side/front, rotisserie chicken - style sleeper. Works for me! I genuinely sleep better in a hammock than anywhere else... it might have something to do with good food, beer consumption and fresh air. Hope you can get used to your hammock; it looks like a great piece of kit.

Cheers Andy for another awesome video I'm having a fry up with a nice chilled beer like your homk , camping this weekend with the wife and son back on Monday thanks for awesome video and you cook delicious food in your videos cheers 👍🙂

Thoroughly enjoyed that video, the hammock looked wonderful.

Awesome as always. I'm just doing a binge-watch. I love your channel Thank you, Andy For sharing your awesome adventures. GOD BLESS YOU

Love the videos dude, great content and great learning from you. Famous last words indeed for the rain we are in England after all ;) I'm based in Kent as well around the Medway towns but love to get out into the country for some camping, find it so relaxing and great to have time to clear the head. Keep the fantastic content coming. M&M's for the win!!!

good evening andy i wanted to thank you for your work on youtube your videos are always a source of relaxation after long days of work, keep it up

Good god 12.8 per cent total for both drinks from the Kent brewery wow, I myself have drunk 2 ciders at 12 per cent together but very nice 👌

Awesome buddy, welcome to the family. Practice definitely makes perfect when it comes to enter/exit but you will find your natural way of doing it over time. Yes you got the warm pad for sure, I have all three and the red one is definitely best in my opinion. All the best Andy

Haven Tents, "Haven XL" is a much better lay flat hammock that can also be used as a 1 man ground tent. Easier to get in and out of and much more intuitive.

No ketchup on the breakfast sausages???! The world's gone mad.

I'm surprised the entire weight of the system is trusted to two small metal buckles

Pack some sandwiches for that float trip so you don't catch Montezumas revenge again

Andy, another great video and really interesting to see the Amok hammock, I think it looks pretty good, and I’m looking forward to your full review of it. Just a thought, but I wonder if it might be worth stashing a heavier axe, with a longer handle, in your wood shed as it may make easier work of splitting the larger logs than your current one. Cheers.

Split your sausages in half length wise, after cooking they lay on the bread better

Andy, has anyone ever told you that you and your channel are just absolutely amazing? 👍 ❤️From 🇦🇺 🐱

Awesome Andy. Your evening session was well worth a good laugh, that bread I cannot name either, evening or night, the last little bit of pork uneaten, brilliant stuff. Love the hammock, not taken to hammocks myself so flat would be ideal. Great video, all the best cheers.

Hello kent could you give me the name and model of your tarp ..... thank you

That was a nice shot of the only surviving wildlife in England 😂

Your some Gordon Ramsay huh mate!

I found when trying to split a big log if you take some section off the outside of the log first, the log looses integrity (?) and is just generally easier to split. Or something like that, don’t quote me.

I don't know whether or not I should be ashamed of this, but I grew up bushcrafting before RU-vid was a "thing" and you could get rich from it. So I only visit for your delicious campfire cooking. Hope that's not offensive mate... Love your cooking videos 👍

Is that an outhouse next to the Woodshed and it looks like Jurassic Park out there😅😅😅

Waiting for your flask to be back in stock. Want to order one for myself.

I love the idea of a cheap hammock. Simple, quick bed anywhere. Unfortunately I can’t get comfortable in em, slide around, hard to move, and end up in a ball while sleeping.

Great human being. Cheers, from Boston, MA

Привет! Очень красивое и познавательное видео!

Awesome Camp Sir Andy ✊🏼🧐! Cant wait for the series with Sir Simon. Cheers from across the pond, California 🇺🇸 🍻👊🏼😎🤙🏼

Always a winner Andy, been here since 5k subs and still loving your videos :) peace brother!

The Norway/Sweden canoe plan, with Simon, sounds great!! Love the ferns at that hammock site. 👍😎🇨🇦🌿🌿🌿🌿

I'm waiting for it to get colder, otherwise insects in the forest do not allow me to live peacefully on hikes. :(

Great video...I...here in Minnesota, US....worked with a fella...from Cornwall...with the last name Tamblyn...any chance his family had anything to do with your sausages?

Hi. Did I miss something - what do you use the char cloth for? Thanks. 🌻🤓

Happy Wednesday Mr Andy great Video Today 😃👍❤️

A few more of those beers and the hammock won't matter

Have to say, that looks scary as hell. I have enough trouble staying in a regular hammock, this would kill me

I love those hammocks but a bit pricey for me.

Andy…. Tell the truth, you slept in the woodshed 😀 Very disappointed you forgot the ketchup haha Great video brother!

Insanely good channel. Andy, you have great taste in food, beer and the great outdoors! Looking forward to your next trip to Norway! 🍺

Nice hammock that Andy seen a few people using them not cheap atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍

Man, where do you get all the ideas for the "B" roll footage. Such a great job! Must take you so long to film all this stuff.

I'm not going to lie, I was hoping for an Olympic class back flip dismount 🤪

Hi Andy, thanks for the great video as always. Nice bit of kit. Be well and safe.

Yo we camped 50ft up a fir tree in hammocks on the weekend, was treemendous. Got a lil vid there on the channel

Hi Kent! You probably said it in one of your videos, but where did you get that cool lantern leather protector/carrier? Or did you made that yourself? Thanks for the answer in advance!

저는 한국 🇰🇷 캠퍼입니다 따라해보고 싶어지는 너무 멋진 영상이네요 👍🏻

Great video, I really liked your review of the hammock. Unrelated, what jacket are you wearing? I really dig it and didn’t see it listed in your other videos

hi kent,watching your video from june 15,2022so nice thanks for sharing

Oh no, your pack's on the gasp, the floor! The bushcraft gods will no doubt be haranguing you on that lol :-)

I can’t believe the complexity. It’s a joke. Hennessy hammocks have got it right probably 30 years ago. I’ve had one for 20 at least. Way simpler. Lay flat. Less pegs. Lighter. The only problem with Hennessy is their marketing as their website has barely changed in all that time.

I have a childhood memory of my Dad putting up a 'double decker' hammock between 2 large Maple trees It was Army green heavy material with what seemed like lots of zippers. We never slept in it overnight but it was our favorite plaything for an entire Summer. I have a sister who swears it was just an old tarp he strung up for us to swing on...! Is there such a thing as a double decker sleeping hammock ? Help me prove my older sister is wrong, ha ha - we've been debating this for over 50 years

ANDY!!! Where's the Ketchup?? Did you buckle to the trolls? Fight Back! BTW, Dinner looked "perfecto".

I know gear questions are so annoying. But I've been meaning to ask: dose anyone know who makes the leather cover for the hurricane lamp?

I've made my own version of this hammock with a £20 hammock from Amazon and an Intex excursion 4 inflatable boat. Sort of thing Andy would make a video about...

If you watch skill tree, he makes larp stuff. Id love to see you do an overnight camp with his bag of the wanderer design.

400 euro's??? I would have gone with an ionosphere ground Bivi bag, and I think that tarp needs to be a lot bigger, Norway is hardly tropical, sorry mate, it looks fancy and nice but just too much money for me Andy

Looks great. I like the flat style hammock. Looking forward to seeing you and Simon on another trip.

Next time you are having a braai (meats and sausages on coals)like we call it here in south Africa pour over some beer on the meats while cooking it tastes fantastic trust me👍 Great video's

Kent you are not bushcraft. You are wild camping and wild piknik👎👎👎👎

I always look forward to seeing you Andy. Sure glad I seen this one. Stay safe stay healthy

It's a unique hammock for sure. Unfortunately I have real issues with it. I toss and turn alot, and whenever I do the portion or I guess bottom half of the hammock pad flops down and back up whenever I turn. Very annoying to go through when you are trying to sleep. That and the fact that when getting into and out of the hammock it tends to tip up, hit my tarp and pull out my guy lines for the Borg tarp from Amok. Otherwise a unique, but not so great hammock for me at least lol.

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I've been using hammocks for years. I do carry a Free Shoulders 10x10.5 tarp for rain. I prefer to be off the ground, but mine also can be staked down and used as a tent

I think I did See your canoe trip video. I think you lost a jacket out there if I’m not mistaken.😢 But the video turned out wonderful you guys look like he’s having a blast.

Check out a channel called Lost Lakes, it's a canadian canoe / camping channel. He did a whole thing on tips and tricks of Amok hammocks, he swears by them. All the best on you up coming trip!

Please mention carrying weight limits for hammock, chair, and anything else expected to bear full or nearly full user weight.

Brilliant vid as always! Where in Norway are you travelling? My guess is Femundsmarka if you consider the canoe!

I just bought the Amok system and am looking forward to using it camping and on our sailboat. Apparently, sailing is what it was created for initially.

This is an odd question because I’m just trying to judge I’m 6’2 204 pounds do you think that hammocks gonna fit me

I would absolutely love to watch you do a dig out! My mum took us camping all of the time. Michele Knightdale, NC USA

Andy, there's a RU-vidr called "Tim Robson" who swears by the Amok system, why not give him a look

Ive never had much luck with hammocks- i seem to get enveloped into it and between aggravating my clostriphobia and my asthma i choose not to sleep in them- i prefer cots like the Marines or Army use- but this new one makes me wonder if i could at last sleep in a hammock 🤔😏

Okay, I’ve been skipping mby the hammock ones as I so desperately want one but with my disabilities I’d be afraid to never being able to get out of it. It looks sooooo comfy

I only sleep on my side and I use a regular hammock with difficulty.

I'm always curious of the locations. Is it your property, friends or family property? I enjoy your channel.

Just a thought but do you guys ever wash, change clothes for bed, wash your hands after handling raw meat or clean your teeth,… sorry to ask but curious 😳🤔

It’s cool you can camp in your property! What’s the purpose of burning fabric in the altoids can?

Dostum çekimlerin harika ortam muhteşem

if you connect the airbag to the madress and open it then you put your face about half meter away and blow in to the bag thats much easyer then try to catch the air =) hope you understand what i ment. =) thanks for the video and keep it coming =)

Your channel is class lad 👌 much love from Liverpool mate 👏

Seeing that pork makes me think about my heart. My mitral valve was replaced with a pig valve.

I never _think_ it's going to rain, but I always _suspect_ it _might_ so I put the tarp up.

I want to send you some beers from my favorite brewery in the states. It would be interesting to see what you think of them in comparison to what's available over there.

You do like your ipa.. I'm more a cider or brandy chap.. Good channel buddy.. Very enjoyable