One day, while helping to fill the hall soda machine, I was playing with a bunch of the leftover six-pack rings and one of my hall-mates said that she had once seen a hammock made of the same kind of rings. Since I had access to a lot of the rings, from my hall's soda machine and the soda machines and soda fridge at the desk of my dorm, I decided to try and make a similar hammock. I searched all over the Internet for instructions, but couldn't find any, so I decided to go it alone. My first attempt, was made mostly of the rings, but all of the weight ended up being held up by rope that was strung in between the rings, and it wasn't very comfortable.

I wasn't satisfied with an uncomfortable hammock, so I continued to play with the leftover rings, and I finally found an interlocking pattern which would allow for the hammock to be constructed almost entirely out of rings, with all weight being carried by the rings. This method has the rings are folded into thirds, with three attachment points per ring, sort of like a link in a chain. The folded ring-link has four "sides:" the two holes and the two folds; however, one of the fold areas must be left bare in order to for the links to be connected infinitely. Rope is needed to hem the edges (to keep the links from unfolding) and attach the hammock to a hanging point, but the load is all carried by the rings.

The hammock itself quite comfortable, although the edges of the rings are a like to poke into bare skin over long periods of time, so I usually throw a sheet over it. Due to the way the ring-links move when loaded, the hammock stretches a great deal, probably over 10% of its length, although I've never measured. The hammock is 20 links wide by 29 long, which makes it 580 rings; with a price of $3 per six-pack, this hammock is "worth" $1740, plus about $20 for rope, metal rings, and twisty ties (used in contstruction to keep the links on the edge from unfolding). I'd estimate the hammock took 16 hours to complete. It really should be less than that, though, as I originally made the hammock 24 by 35 rings, so 260 of the rings (almost 50% of the final total, $780 worth) and the time it took to connect them was unneeded.